Domain-Driven Design Contracts

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Domain-Driven Design 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 460 530 610
Rank change year-on-year +70 +80 +37
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 60 52 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 36 81
10th Percentile £380 £445 £456
25th Percentile £442 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £583
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +9.35% -0.34%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -33.78% +22.73% +3.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Domain-Driven Design 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Top 13 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 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 +56 46 £545 -16.15% 118
London +49 31 £625 -1.57% 63
Work from Home +49 19 £478 -8.04% 101
UK excluding London +51 17 £447 -33.78% 73
North of England +23 7 £424 -4.83% 31
Yorkshire - 6 £400 - 5
Midlands +22 5 £402 -9.66% 13
Scotland +14 3 £488 +21.88% 2
East Midlands +8 3 £358 -19.55% 6
West Midlands - 2 £600 - 7
South East +33 1 - - 26
East of England +30 1 - - 3
North West +15 1 £447 +0.45% 26

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 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) Camunda
3 1 (1.67%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) AWS
2 29 (48.33%) Azure
3 17 (28.33%) GCP
4 11 (18.33%) GitHub
5 6 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.00%) Apigee
8 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (5.00%) Google App Engine
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.33%) IaaS
9 2 (3.33%) PaaS
9 2 (3.33%) SaaS
9 2 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (23.33%) NoSQL
3 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (11.67%) RDBMS
4 7 (11.67%) Relational Database
5 6 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 6 (10.00%) MySQL
6 5 (8.33%) Metadata
7 4 (6.67%) Big Data
7 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
7 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.67%) Redis
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (3.33%) OLTP
9 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 4 (6.67%) ER Studio
4 4 (6.67%) ERwin
5 3 (5.00%) Eclipse
5 3 (5.00%) GitLab
5 3 (5.00%) Gradle
5 3 (5.00%) IntelliJ
5 3 (5.00%) JIRA
5 3 (5.00%) JUnit
5 3 (5.00%) Maven
5 3 (5.00%) Mockito
5 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.00%) TestNG
6 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Finance
3 12 (20.00%) Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Retail
7 2 (3.33%) Back Office
7 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Front Office
8 1 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (50.00%) Developer
2 22 (36.67%) Architect
3 14 (23.33%) Java Developer
4 12 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (15.00%) Senior
6 6 (10.00%) GCP Architect
7 5 (8.33%) Data Modeller
7 5 (8.33%) React Developer
7 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Digital Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Lead
9 3 (5.00%) Platform Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Technical Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) Spring
2 16 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 15 (25.00%) React
3 15 (25.00%) RESTful
4 13 (21.67%) .NET
5 10 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 10 (16.67%) Kafka
6 9 (15.00%) CSS
6 9 (15.00%) HTML
7 7 (11.67%) Web Services
8 6 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 6 (10.00%) Node.js
9 5 (8.33%) OAuth
10 4 (6.67%) JWT
10 4 (6.67%) Laravel
10 4 (6.67%) Swagger
11 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (5.00%) OpenAPI
11 3 (5.00%) React Native
11 3 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.67%) Data Fabric
5 3 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Credit Risk
6 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Code
6 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.67%) Derivative
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Android
1 3 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Microservices
2 29 (48.33%) CI/CD
3 26 (43.33%) DevOps
4 23 (38.33%) Agile
5 20 (33.33%) TDD
6 16 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 16 (26.67%) Design Patterns
7 15 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 15 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 15 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 14 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (23.33%) SOLID
9 11 (18.33%) Data Modelling
9 11 (18.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.00%) CQRS
11 8 (13.33%) Clean Code
11 8 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (11.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.00%) Java
2 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (15.00%) Python
4 8 (13.33%) PHP
4 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.00%) Go
5 6 (10.00%) SQL
6 5 (8.33%) Kotlin
7 4 (6.67%) C#
8 3 (5.00%) R
8 3 (5.00%) Scala
9 1 (1.67%) Bicep
9 1 (1.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 19 (31.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.33%) Grafana
2 8 (13.33%) Terraform
3 7 (11.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.00%) Ansible
4 3 (5.00%) Packer
4 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.00%) Puppet
5 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) Google
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.67%) Splunk