DOM Contracts

Document Object Model (DOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DOM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DOM 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 510 563 689
Rank change year-on-year +53 +126 +61
Contract jobs citing DOM 10 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.044% 0.049%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 24
10th Percentile £218 £400 £472
25th Percentile £250 £418 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year -46.00% -21.57% +18.06%
75th Percentile £450 - £713
90th Percentile £452 £525 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £237 £408 £570
% change year-on-year -41.96% -28.51% +9.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

DOM 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

DOM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DOM in the UK

DOM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DOM in the UK

DOM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DOM over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DOM in the UK

DOM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DOM.

Hourly rate trend for DOM in the UK

DOM
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DOM 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 +50 7 £268 -40.44% 8
UK excluding London +62 4 £237 -41.96% 7
London +33 4 £450 - 1
Work from Home +30 2 £364 -27.20% 5
East Midlands - 2 £225 - 1
Midlands - 2 £225 - 2
North West - 1 £223 - 2
Scotland - 1 £270 -
North of England - 1 £223 - 2

DOM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (50.00%) Selenium
3 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Junior
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) CSS
1 5 (50.00%) HTML
1 5 (50.00%) Next.js
1 5 (50.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (20.00%) Jest
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) Redux
3 2 (20.00%) Vue
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) Java EE
4 1 (10.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (20.00%) GitOps
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (10.00%) API Management
4 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (10.00%) Push Notifications
4 1 (10.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) JSX
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft