Drools Contracts

Drools
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Drools skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Drools over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 568 679
Rank change year-on-year +27 +111 +155
Contract jobs citing Drools 1 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.047% 0.014%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.014% 0.22% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 6
10th Percentile - £413 £450
25th Percentile £406 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £473 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -17.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £419 £524 £697
90th Percentile - £538 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - £510 £688
% change year-on-year - -25.82% -1.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Drools falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,321 9,188 12,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.54% 21.49% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,945 6,289 9,180
10th Percentile £350 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 277 156
10th Percentile £29.21 £22.65 £28.75
25th Percentile £38.52 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year - -12.35% +17.84%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £59.03
% change year-on-year +7.20% -1.24% +7.33%

Drools
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Drools in the UK

Drools
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Drools in the UK

Drools
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Drools in the UK

Drools
Top 2 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 14 July 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
London +27 1 £413 -8.33% 1
England +12 1 £413 -12.70% 3

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 1 (100.00%) Camunda
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) jBPM
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) EAI
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript