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

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 346 380
Rank change year-on-year -43 +34 +48
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 14 4 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.029% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.033% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 18
10th Percentile - £405 £488
25th Percentile £400 £434 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -33.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £771
90th Percentile £588 - £852
UK median daily rate £495 £723 £745
% change year-on-year -31.49% -3.02% +19.20%

All Process & 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 16,142 12,089 17,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.61% 88.56% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 7,065 11,145
10th Percentile £230 £230 £250
25th Percentile £381 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,725 671 1,600
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £20.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -18.80% +44.23%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.93 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.37 £74.44 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Domain-Driven Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Domain-Driven Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Domain-Driven Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Domain-Driven Design

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 28 January 2026.

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 28 January 2026. 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 -47 11 £400 -20.00% 10
North West - 11 £400 - 8
Scotland - 2 £480 - 1
South West - 1 £575 - 2
Domain-Driven Design
UK

Domain-Driven Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (42.86%) GCP
3 6 (42.86%) Serverless
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (35.71%) Apigee
4 5 (35.71%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (35.71%) Datadog
4 5 (35.71%) GitHub
4 5 (35.71%) Loggly
4 5 (35.71%) Route 53
5 4 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (28.57%) PaaS
5 4 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (35.71%) BigQuery
3 5 (35.71%) MySQL
3 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
3 5 (35.71%) Redis
3 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) Cucumber
2 5 (35.71%) Gradle
2 5 (35.71%) Maven
2 5 (35.71%) Postman
2 5 (35.71%) SonarLint
2 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
3 2 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 8 (57.14%) Public Sector
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
1 6 (42.86%) Java Architect
1 6 (42.86%) Java Technical Architect
1 6 (42.86%) Technical Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Dropwizard
1 6 (42.86%) J2EE
1 6 (42.86%) Micronaut
1 6 (42.86%) RESTful
1 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 5 (35.71%) Celery
2 5 (35.71%) JWT
3 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Product Ownership
2 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (42.86%) N-Tier
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
2 10 (71.43%) BDD
3 8 (57.14%) TDD
4 6 (42.86%) API Design
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Clean Code
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 6 (42.86%) Microservices
4 6 (42.86%) OOP
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
4 6 (42.86%) Waterfall
5 5 (35.71%) Asynchronous Programming
5 5 (35.71%) Integration Patterns
5 5 (35.71%) SDLC
5 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Gigya
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Virgin Media