Don't repeat yourself (DRY) Contracts in the UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Don't repeat yourself (DRY) over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 446 504
Rank change year-on-year +46 +58 -74
Contract jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) 3 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.046% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.051% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 10
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile - £625 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £650 £489
Median % change year-on-year -69.23% +32.86% +34.97%
75th Percentile - £675 £553
90th Percentile - £775 £557
UK median daily rate £200 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -69.23% +23.81% +18.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £62.15
UK median hourly rate - - £62.15

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY) is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
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 Don't repeat yourself (DRY) within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
South East +8 2 - - 6
Midlands +29 1 £200 -66.67% 6
West Midlands +25 1 £200 -66.67% 3
Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
UK

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) React Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Blazor
3 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) YAGNI
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atmel
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft