Drush Contract Job Trends

Drush
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Drush skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Drush 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.048% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Drush 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 8,255 7,492 9,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.49% 21.89% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,473 4,760 6,939
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 101 175
10th Percentile £30.75 £21.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -1.15% +24.53% -19.70%

Drush
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Drush relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Drush job vacancy trend in the UK

Drush
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drush.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drush

Drush
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drush within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
UK excluding London - 3 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
England - 2 - - 1
Midlands - 2 - - 1
Wales - 1 £425 -
Work from Home - 1 £425 -

Drush
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 4 (100.00%) Drupal
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (25.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) Twig
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google