Domain-Driven Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 370 434
Rank change year-on-year +51 +64 +5
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 17 29 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 25
10th Percentile - £445 £453
25th Percentile £358 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.78% +22.73% +3.38%
75th Percentile £550 £750 -
90th Percentile £589 £775 £633
UK median daily rate £525 £638 £583
% change year-on-year -17.65% +9.35% -0.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Domain-Driven Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Domain-Driven Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Domain-Driven Design in the UK excluding London

Domain-Driven Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Domain-Driven Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Domain-Driven Design in the UK excluding London

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Domain-Driven Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in the UK excluding London

Domain-Driven Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Domain-Driven Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +23 7 £424 -4.83% 48
Yorkshire - 6 £400 - 13
Midlands +22 5 £402 -9.66% 27
Scotland +14 3 £488 +21.88% 5
East Midlands +8 3 £358 -19.55% 12
West Midlands - 2 £600 - 14
South East +33 1 - - 49
East of England +30 1 - - 15
North West +15 1 £447 +0.45% 33
Domain-Driven Design
UK

Domain-Driven Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Camunda
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Apigee
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Kong
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Metadata
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Artifactory
1 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
1 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.88%) ER Studio
2 1 (5.88%) ERwin
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (35.29%) Banking
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
2 7 (41.18%) Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (23.53%) React Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Data Modeller
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Payments Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) .NET
1 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
2 4 (23.53%) React
2 4 (23.53%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
3 3 (17.65%) Laravel
3 3 (17.65%) React Native
3 3 (17.65%) Vue
3 3 (17.65%) WPF
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) LDAP
4 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) CSS
5 1 (5.88%) HTML
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) OpenID
5 1 (5.88%) RAML
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Android
1 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
5 4 (23.53%) BDD
5 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (23.53%) Kanban
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Sequence Diagram
5 4 (23.53%) TDD
6 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
6 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) PHP
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk