Drools Contracts in the UK excluding London

Drools
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Drools skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Drools over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank - 387 432
Rank change year-on-year - +45 +86
Contract jobs citing Drools 0 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London - 0.062% 0.026%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category - 0.39% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £473 £496
25th Percentile - £474 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £510 £688
Median % change year-on-year - -25.82% +19.05%
75th Percentile - £532 £700
90th Percentile - £537 -
UK median daily rate - £496 £688
% change year-on-year - -27.82% +14.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Drools falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,418 3,346 4,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.61% 16.06% 18.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 2,187 3,085
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £573 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.07% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 219 86
10th Percentile £33.59 £22.70 £22.37
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -25.49% +17.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.45 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

Drools
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Drools as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Drools in the UK excluding London

Drools
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Drools in the UK excluding London

Drools
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Drools in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Drools in the UK excluding London