DAML Contracts

Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DAML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 580 -
Rank change year-on-year +64 - -
Contract jobs citing DAML 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.040% 0.016% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £644 - -
25th Percentile £664 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £676 £775 -
90th Percentile £679 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

DAML falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,965 12,846 20,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,755 9,122 15,089
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £768 £762 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 487 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.70 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DAML in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DAML.

Daily rate trend for DAML in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DAML within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +59 4 £675 -10.00% 1
London +40 4 £675 -10.00% 1
Work from Home - 3 £675 - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
2 3 (75.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 4 (100.00%) Equities
1 4 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Python