Rational DOORS Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Rational DOORS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Rational DOORS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rational DOORS over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 316 298
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 +153
Contract jobs citing Rational DOORS 38 60 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.33% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.77% 2.77% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 37
10th Percentile £463 £475 £513
25th Percentile £494 £484 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £616 £630
90th Percentile £688 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 61
10th Percentile £48.90 £39.63 £50.00
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.78 £57.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% +0.77% +17.29%
75th Percentile £82.81 £72.38 £90.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.67 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £67.42
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.59% +22.58%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Rational DOORS falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,144 2,165 2,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.01% 11.79% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 1,377 1,960
10th Percentile £308 £341 £344
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £619 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 184 175
10th Percentile £22.05 £40.00 £46.18
25th Percentile £51.53 £52.19 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £82.96 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

Rational DOORS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Rational DOORS in the UK excluding London

Rational DOORS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Rational DOORS in the UK excluding London

Rational DOORS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rational DOORS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rational DOORS in the UK excluding London

Rational DOORS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Rational DOORS in the UK excluding London

Rational DOORS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Rational DOORS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Rational DOORS in the UK excluding London

Rational DOORS
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 Rational DOORS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
East of England +10 11 - - 26
South East +6 9 £488 -7.14% 52
South West +14 8 £525 - 47
North West +4 8 £650 - 7
North of England -7 8 £650 - 11
Midlands - 2 £650 - 40
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 12
West Midlands - 1 - - 28
Rational DOORS
UK

Rational DOORS
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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Windchill
2 5 (13.16%) Simulink
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.63%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) SAP PLM
1 4 (10.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Ethernet
2 2 (5.26%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) JIRA
2 6 (15.79%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) Rational Rhapsody
3 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.26%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.63%) GoogleTest
5 1 (2.63%) Gradle
5 1 (2.63%) JUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Maven
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) TestRail
General
1 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Aviation
2 5 (13.16%) Law
3 4 (10.53%) Aerospace
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Electronics
5 2 (5.26%) Automotive
5 2 (5.26%) Avionics
5 2 (5.26%) German Language
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) RF Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Requirements Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) Author
5 2 (5.26%) Design Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Functional Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Author
6 1 (2.63%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Java Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) JavaFX
1 1 (2.63%) Spring
1 1 (2.63%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) PCIe
3 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.63%) FPGA
3 1 (2.63%) Verilog
3 1 (2.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (5.26%) Windows
4 1 (2.63%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Systems Engineering
2 14 (36.84%) Requirements Management
3 10 (26.32%) Agile
4 9 (23.68%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 9 (23.68%) Validation
5 8 (21.05%) Verification and Validation
6 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
6 7 (18.42%) UML
7 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
8 5 (13.16%) Scrum
8 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
9 4 (10.53%) Mathematics
9 4 (10.53%) Requirements Engineering
9 4 (10.53%) Software Architecture
9 4 (10.53%) SysML
9 4 (10.53%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) C
1 5 (13.16%) MATLAB
1 5 (13.16%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) C++
2 4 (10.53%) Java
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Ada
4 1 (2.63%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.63%) Embedded C
4 1 (2.63%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 14 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) Degree
4 5 (13.16%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) RIBA
5 3 (7.89%) IIBA
6 2 (5.26%) HNC
6 2 (5.26%) HND
7 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Firmware
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Ansible
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.89%) Podman
1 3 (7.89%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) IBM
2 4 (10.53%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) MathWorks
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Twitter
3 1 (2.63%) Wind River
3 1 (2.63%) Xilinx