Graceful Degradation Contracts

Graceful Degradation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Graceful Degradation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Graceful Degradation over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Graceful Degradation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Graceful Degradation 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 28,907 36,912 51,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.67% 85.33% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,194 23,557 35,146
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,436 2,507 1,728
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.79
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.09 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.03
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.82% +66.81%

Graceful Degradation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Graceful Degradation in the UK

Graceful Degradation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Graceful Degradation in the UK

Graceful Degradation
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 Graceful Degradation within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 - 2 £450 - 1
England - 2 £450 - 1

Graceful Degradation
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 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MemSQL
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus