Dropwizard Contracts

Dropwizard
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Dropwizard skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dropwizard over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 550 665
Rank change year-on-year +3 +115 +164
Contract jobs citing Dropwizard 9 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.031% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.14% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 2
10th Percentile £457 £560 -
25th Percentile £458 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +22.73% +2.04%
75th Percentile £500 £763 £575
90th Percentile £520 £765 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £675 -
% change year-on-year -31.11% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Dropwizard 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 7,469 8,572 11,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.52% 21.96% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,045 5,851 8,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £427 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £635 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 248 156
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.50 £32.88
25th Percentile £40.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £74.46 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £58.60 £58.55
% change year-on-year -6.15% +0.10% +1.82%

Dropwizard
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Dropwizard in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Dropwizard in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dropwizard within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 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 +17 7 £465 -31.11% 6
North of England -4 6 £465 - 6
UK excluding London -7 6 £465 -31.11% 6
North East 0 4 £465 -
Work from Home +25 3 £520 -32.03% 2
North West - 1 £465 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
London - 1 - -

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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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Kong
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) MongoDB
1 8 (88.89%) MySQL
1 8 (88.89%) NoSQL
1 8 (88.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Artifactory
1 8 (88.89%) Git
1 8 (88.89%) GitLab
1 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
1 8 (88.89%) Maven
1 8 (88.89%) SonarQube
1 8 (88.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (77.78%) gulp
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
2 8 (88.89%) Apache CXF
2 8 (88.89%) JAX-RS
2 8 (88.89%) Kafka
2 8 (88.89%) Node.js
2 8 (88.89%) Spring Boot
3 7 (77.78%) AngularJS
3 7 (77.78%) Express.js
3 7 (77.78%) Hibernate
3 7 (77.78%) MEAN Stack
3 7 (77.78%) MERN Stack
3 7 (77.78%) Mongoose
3 7 (77.78%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (77.78%) React
3 7 (77.78%) Sequelize
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) Event-Driven
2 7 (77.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 7 (77.78%) Open Source
2 7 (77.78%) Operational Stability
3 6 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Iteration Planning
5 1 (11.11%) OWASP
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus