Domain-Driven Design Contracts

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Domain-Driven Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 610 640
Rank change year-on-year +59 +30 -117
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 47 109 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 81 153
10th Percentile £525 £456 £425
25th Percentile £551 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £583 £585
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -0.34% +11.43%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £550 £532
% change year-on-year +36.36% +3.38% +16.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Domain-Driven Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Domain-Driven Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Domain-Driven Design.

Daily rate trend for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Domain-Driven Design within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +77 42 £685 +15.13% 40
UK excluding London +63 26 £750 +36.36% 32
London +64 19 £650 - 9
South East +36 15 £750 +26.32% 7
Work from Home +87 6 £554 +3.02% 27
South West +14 5 £675 +22.73% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 £400 - 3
Midlands +21 1 - - 10
East Midlands +18 1 - - 9
East of England +14 1 £550 -5.66%

Domain-Driven Design
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 (2.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) Azure
2 20 (42.55%) AWS
3 7 (14.89%) GCP
4 6 (12.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (8.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (8.51%) OCI
6 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) Serverless
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.26%) Azure App Service
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.26%) SAP Fieldglass
7 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.26%) DB2
6 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) SpecFlow
2 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.26%) CircleCI
3 2 (4.26%) GitLab
3 2 (4.26%) Postman
3 2 (4.26%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.13%) Moq
4 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (53.19%) Finance
2 9 (19.15%) Banking
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Retail
4 5 (10.64%) Front Office
4 5 (10.64%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.26%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.26%) Law
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
5 2 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Architect
2 12 (25.53%) Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Enterprise Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
5 5 (10.64%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.38%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Lead
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.26%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Head of Technology
8 2 (4.26%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (42.55%) .NET
2 12 (25.53%) AngularJS
3 9 (19.15%) React
4 8 (17.02%) .NET Framework
4 8 (17.02%) Entity Framework
4 8 (17.02%) HTML
4 8 (17.02%) HTML5
5 7 (14.89%) REST
6 6 (12.77%) Angular 2
6 6 (12.77%) Blazor
6 6 (12.77%) Redux
7 5 (10.64%) Kafka
8 4 (8.51%) OpenID
8 4 (8.51%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (8.51%) Spring
9 3 (6.38%) JMS
9 3 (6.38%) Swagger
9 3 (6.38%) Vue
10 2 (4.26%) Pyramid
10 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Replication
2 5 (10.64%) Derivative
3 4 (8.51%) Blockchain
3 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.26%) Data Fabric
5 2 (4.26%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.26%) IoT
5 2 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.26%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) Microservices
2 23 (48.94%) Agile
3 17 (36.17%) DevOps
3 17 (36.17%) TDD
4 15 (31.91%) Software Engineering
5 13 (27.66%) ArchiMate
5 13 (27.66%) Scrum
6 12 (25.53%) TOGAF
7 10 (21.28%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (17.02%) BDD
8 8 (17.02%) Design Patterns
9 7 (14.89%) Architectural Design
9 7 (14.89%) SOLID
9 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
10 6 (12.77%) Software Testing
11 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
11 5 (10.64%) Coaching
11 5 (10.64%) Event-Driven
11 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (8.51%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 22 (46.81%) C#
2 18 (38.30%) SQL
3 8 (17.02%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) Python
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.26%) Bicep
6 2 (4.26%) Go
6 2 (4.26%) Scala
6 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) FATCA
1 2 (4.26%) MiFID
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) Calypso
2 2 (4.26%) Concur
2 2 (4.26%) Databricks
2 2 (4.26%) Genesys
2 2 (4.26%) Greenplum
2 2 (4.26%) Guidewire
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Murex
2 2 (4.26%) PeopleSoft
2 2 (4.26%) SAP
2 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.26%) Wallstreet Suite
2 2 (4.26%) Workday
3 1 (2.13%) Finsemble
3 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.13%) TIBCO