Drools Contracts in the UK excluding London

Drools
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Drools skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Drools over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 449 518
Rank change year-on-year +57 +69 -99
Contract jobs citing Drools 13 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.012% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 0.067% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £473 £666 £470
25th Percentile £474 £672 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £688 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% +37.50% -0.50%
75th Percentile £532 £697 £576
90th Percentile £537 £699 £581
UK median daily rate £498 £688 £570
% change year-on-year -27.64% +20.61% +13.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Drools is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks 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 technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,287 4,479 6,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 18.37% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 3,350 4,553
10th Percentile £324 £350 £358
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 89 156
10th Percentile £20.81 £22.22 £20.00
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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

Drools
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 Drools within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
East of England - 13 £510 -
Drools
UK

Drools
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 6 (46.15%) Alfresco
1 6 (46.15%) Appian
1 6 (46.15%) Camunda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
1 7 (53.85%) JUnit
1 7 (53.85%) Mockito
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Quarkus
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
1 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 6 (46.15%) jBPM
2 6 (46.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (38.46%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
1 7 (53.85%) Decision Table
1 7 (53.85%) Microservices
1 7 (53.85%) TDD
2 6 (46.15%) BPMN
2 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Pega
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft