Graceful Degradation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Graceful Degradation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Graceful Degradation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Graceful Degradation 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.029% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £438 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Graceful Degradation 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 19,713 11,581 17,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.23% 90.50% 84.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,893 7,262 10,444
10th Percentile £293 £235 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £677 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 833 2,056
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.22 £12.32
25th Percentile £18.89 £17.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £43.69 £27.94 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.37% -25.49% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%

Graceful Degradation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Graceful Degradation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Graceful Degradation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Graceful Degradation
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 Graceful Degradation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
South West - 6 £438 -
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
Graceful Degradation
UK

Graceful Degradation
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 6 (85.71%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) PowerShell Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
1 6 (85.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Legacy Code
1 6 (85.71%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 7 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Incident Management
2 6 (85.71%) Runbook
2 6 (85.71%) Service-Level Objective
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat