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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 594 651
Rank change year-on-year +74 +57 -99
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 50 96 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 72 164
10th Percentile £445 £450 £414
25th Percentile £544 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £591 £585
Median % change year-on-year +7.96% +0.94% +11.43%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £774 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £550 £532
% change year-on-year +22.73% +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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 2024.

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 23 May 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 +61 45 £650 - 49
UK excluding London +59 25 £675 +22.73% 31
London +68 23 £635 -2.31% 18
South East +19 10 £750 +2.74% 5
Work from Home +93 8 £483 -3.50% 29
Midlands +37 5 £445 +36.92% 7
East Midlands +20 5 £445 +36.92% 5
South West +13 5 £675 +22.73% 3
North of England +27 3 £445 -14.42% 13
North West +22 3 £445 -14.42% 9
Scotland +43 2 £400 +6.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
East of England +10 1 £550 -5.66% 1

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (14.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 7 (14.00%) GCP
4 6 (12.00%) SaaS
5 5 (10.00%) Azure App Service
6 4 (8.00%) OCI
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
7 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) NoSQL
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.00%) DB2
3 6 (12.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Git
2 5 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.00%) CircleCI
4 2 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.00%) GitLab
4 2 (4.00%) Postman
4 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 28 (56.00%) Finance
2 13 (26.00%) Banking
3 8 (16.00%) Front Office
3 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Retail
5 4 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Architect
2 13 (26.00%) Developer
3 11 (22.00%) Software Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (14.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Senior
7 5 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Lead
8 4 (8.00%) Technical Architect
9 3 (6.00%) C# Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Lead Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
10 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
10 2 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
10 2 (4.00%) Head of Technology
10 2 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (52.00%) .NET
2 15 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 14 (28.00%) React
4 8 (16.00%) HTML
4 8 (16.00%) HTML5
5 7 (14.00%) .NET Framework
5 7 (14.00%) Entity Framework
6 6 (12.00%) Angular 2
6 6 (12.00%) Blazor
6 6 (12.00%) Kafka
6 6 (12.00%) Redux
7 5 (10.00%) REST
7 5 (10.00%) Spring
8 4 (8.00%) OpenID
8 4 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (6.00%) JMS
9 3 (6.00%) RESTful
9 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
10 2 (4.00%) CSS
10 2 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Derivative
2 6 (12.00%) Replication
3 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 5 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (8.00%) Blockchain
4 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.00%) Data Fabric
6 2 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (4.00%) IoT
6 2 (4.00%) Market Risk
7 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Android
1 5 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (72.00%) Microservices
2 26 (52.00%) Agile
3 18 (36.00%) DevOps
3 18 (36.00%) Software Engineering
4 17 (34.00%) TDD
5 12 (24.00%) Scrum
6 11 (22.00%) Architectural Design
6 11 (22.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 9 (18.00%) ArchiMate
8 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
8 8 (16.00%) SOLID
8 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
8 8 (16.00%) TOGAF
9 7 (14.00%) BDD
10 6 (12.00%) API Design
10 6 (12.00%) Software Testing
11 5 (10.00%) Design Patterns
11 5 (10.00%) Event-Driven
11 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) C#
2 18 (36.00%) SQL
3 14 (28.00%) Java
4 5 (10.00%) C
4 5 (10.00%) Python
4 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.00%) Bicep
5 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) Scala
6 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.00%) Databricks
2 2 (4.00%) Genesys
2 2 (4.00%) Greenplum
2 2 (4.00%) Guidewire
2 2 (4.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (2.00%) Finsemble
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.00%) Salesforce