Drools
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Drools skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Drools 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 580 716 829
Rank change year-on-year +136 +113 -166
Contract jobs citing Drools 18 3 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.005% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.022% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 17
10th Percentile £446 £666 £478
25th Percentile £456 £672 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £688 £578
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +19.05% +14.93%
75th Percentile £532 £697 £613
90th Percentile £544 £699 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £688 £535
% change year-on-year -25.82% +28.50% +6.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Drools is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Drools
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Drools in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Drools in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Drools over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Drools in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Drools in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drools 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 +143 18 £498 -27.64% 1
UK excluding London +75 13 £510 -25.82%
East of England - 13 £510 -
London - 5 £450 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £509 -

Drools
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 6 (33.33%) Alfresco
1 6 (33.33%) Appian
1 6 (33.33%) Camunda
2 1 (5.56%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Git
2 7 (38.89%) JUnit
2 7 (38.89%) Mockito
3 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Front Office
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Aviation
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Development Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) JSON
2 7 (38.89%) Quarkus
2 7 (38.89%) RESTful
2 7 (38.89%) Spring
2 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
3 6 (33.33%) jBPM
4 3 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) Swagger
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (27.78%) Low-Code
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Microservices
2 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
2 7 (38.89%) Decision Table
2 7 (38.89%) TDD
3 6 (33.33%) BPMN
3 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 6 (33.33%) Workflow
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Community of Practice
6 1 (5.56%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (5.56%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (5.56%) Data Strategy
6 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.56%) OO
6 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) Java
2 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Groovy
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Pega
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk