Loose Coupling Contracts

Loose Coupling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Loose Coupling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Loose Coupling over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 578 704
Rank change year-on-year +67 +126 +121
Contract jobs citing Loose Coupling 9 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.009% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.011% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £455 - £550
25th Percentile £500 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £775
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -22.58% +31.36%
75th Percentile £538 £633 £794
90th Percentile - £652 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -13.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Loose Coupling 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Loose Coupling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Loose Coupling in the UK

Loose Coupling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Loose Coupling in the UK

Loose Coupling
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Loose Coupling within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Work from Home +46 7 £525 -20.45%
England +57 3 £450 -25.00% 68
UK excluding London +63 2 - - 72
North of England - 2 - - 16
Yorkshire - 2 - - 7
London +38 1 £450 - 3

Loose Coupling
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%) npm
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
1 9 (100.00%) webpack
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (88.89%) Angular Developer
3 7 (77.78%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 9 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) Flask
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) pytest
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Workflow
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes