Domain-Driven Design Contract Job Trends

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 506 537
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +68
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 79 48 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 32 40
10th Percentile £400 £451 £524
25th Percentile £457 £565 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £688 £745
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% -7.72% +24.17%
75th Percentile £616 £745 £757
90th Percentile £734 £836 £890
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £480 £675
% change year-on-year +18.75% -28.89% +22.73%

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 32,744 29,791 38,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.06% 88.28% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 18,168 25,704
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,071 964 1,544
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%
75th Percentile £51.23 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.31 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.16% -30.00% +40.63%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Domain-Driven Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Domain-Driven Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Domain-Driven Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Domain-Driven Design

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Domain-Driven Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Domain-Driven Design

Domain-Driven Design
Top 13 Contract Job 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 26 December 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 -28 59 £515 -23.70% 20
London +8 36 £502 -28.36% 10
UK excluding London -30 32 £570 +18.75% 11
Work from Home +17 23 £575 -24.47% 14
Scotland +13 11 £723 -
North of England -53 11 £485 +5.43% 1
North West -21 10 £400 -10.11% 1
East Midlands - 5 £393 - 1
Midlands - 5 £393 - 1
South West - 3 £600 - 2
East of England -21 1 £500 -4.76%
Yorkshire -40 1 £650 +30.00%
South East - 1 - - 7

Domain-Driven Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.66%) WebLogic
2 5 (6.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.53%) Mule
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.27%) SAP MRS
1 1 (1.27%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (59.49%) AWS
2 42 (53.16%) Azure
3 31 (39.24%) GitHub
4 20 (25.32%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (24.05%) GCP
6 18 (22.78%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (21.52%) Serverless
8 11 (13.92%) Azure AKS
9 7 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (7.59%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (7.59%) Azure Functions
10 6 (7.59%) SaaS
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (6.33%) Apigee
11 5 (6.33%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (6.33%) Datadog
11 5 (6.33%) Loggly
11 5 (6.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.52%) NoSQL
2 16 (20.25%) SQL Server
3 15 (18.99%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.13%) Oracle Database
4 8 (10.13%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.86%) Metadata
6 6 (7.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.59%) BigQuery
6 6 (7.59%) DynamoDB
6 6 (7.59%) MySQL
7 5 (6.33%) RDBMS
7 5 (6.33%) Redis
8 3 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.53%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.27%) OLAP
10 1 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) CircleCI
1 11 (13.92%) Git
2 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.39%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (11.39%) SonarQube
3 6 (7.59%) Gradle
3 6 (7.59%) JUnit
3 6 (7.59%) Mockito
4 5 (6.33%) ERwin
4 5 (6.33%) Liquibase
4 5 (6.33%) Maven
4 5 (6.33%) Postman
4 5 (6.33%) SonarLint
5 4 (5.06%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.80%) GitLab
7 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.53%) JIRA
8 1 (1.27%) Selenium
8 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Finance
4 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Billing
5 1 (1.27%) Front Office
5 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Military
5 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (34.18%) Architect
2 23 (29.11%) Developer
3 19 (24.05%) Lead
4 17 (21.52%) Technical Architect
5 13 (16.46%) Technical Leader
6 10 (12.66%) Lead Architect
7 9 (11.39%) Java Developer
8 8 (10.13%) .NET Developer
8 8 (10.13%) Senior
9 7 (8.86%) C# Developer
10 6 (7.59%) AWS Architect
10 6 (7.59%) Java Architect
10 6 (7.59%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (6.33%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (6.33%) Data Modeller
11 5 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (5.06%) Lead Developer
12 4 (5.06%) Test Engineer
13 3 (3.80%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.52%) Spring
2 15 (18.99%) REST
2 15 (18.99%) RESTful
3 14 (17.72%) Spring Boot
4 11 (13.92%) .NET
4 11 (13.92%) Kafka
4 11 (13.92%) Node.js
5 9 (11.39%) J2EE
5 9 (11.39%) RAML
5 9 (11.39%) React
6 8 (10.13%) JWT
7 7 (8.86%) Micronaut
8 6 (7.59%) .NET Core
8 6 (7.59%) Dropwizard
8 6 (7.59%) GraphQL
8 6 (7.59%) Swagger
8 6 (7.59%) WireMock
9 5 (6.33%) Celery
9 5 (6.33%) Entity Framework
10 4 (5.06%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.32%) Cloud Native
2 13 (16.46%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (15.19%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (7.59%) N-Tier
5 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) NHS
7 1 (1.27%) Clustering
7 1 (1.27%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.27%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
1 1 (1.27%) Unix
1 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (69.62%) CI/CD
2 50 (63.29%) Microservices
3 47 (59.49%) TDD
4 32 (40.51%) DevOps
5 31 (39.24%) Agile
5 31 (39.24%) Containerisation
6 25 (31.65%) Design Patterns
7 23 (29.11%) CQRS
7 23 (29.11%) Event-Driven
8 22 (27.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (26.58%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (22.78%) Continuous Delivery
11 17 (21.52%) Roadmaps
12 14 (17.72%) Integration Patterns
13 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (16.46%) SOLID
14 12 (15.19%) AI
14 12 (15.19%) BDD
14 12 (15.19%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.24%) Java
2 19 (24.05%) SQL
2 19 (24.05%) TypeScript
3 12 (15.19%) Python
4 11 (13.92%) C#
5 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.33%) PHP
7 3 (3.80%) Bicep
7 3 (3.80%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.53%) Bash
8 2 (2.53%) Go
9 1 (1.27%) ABAP
9 1 (1.27%) C
9 1 (1.27%) ProC
9 1 (1.27%) VB
9 1 (1.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (40.51%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.80%) Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.80%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) HL7
3 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.27%) EMIR
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) MiFID
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (39.24%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (58.23%) Kubernetes
2 34 (43.04%) Terraform
3 12 (15.19%) Grafana
4 11 (13.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (17.72%) Oracle
2 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.59%) Databricks
4 5 (6.33%) Gigya
5 3 (3.80%) Checkmarx
6 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.27%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.27%) Informatica
7 1 (1.27%) New Relic
7 1 (1.27%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.27%) Percona
7 1 (1.27%) SAP
7 1 (1.27%) Virgin Media