Drush Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Drush
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Drush skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Drush 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £413 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Drush 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 3,345 2,674 3,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.49% 17.88% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 1,667 2,412
10th Percentile £331 £340 £325
25th Percentile £404 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 72 138
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £35.66
25th Percentile £45.94 £43.64 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +24.53% -19.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

Drush
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Drush job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Drush
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Drush.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Drush

Drush
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 Drush within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Wales - 1 £425 -
Drush
UK

Drush
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Backend Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) PHP Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Defects
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google