Poetry Contracts

Poetry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Poetry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Poetry 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 513 579 -
Rank change year-on-year +66 - -
Contract jobs citing Poetry 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.007% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.058% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile - £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -
75th Percentile - £513 -
90th Percentile £455 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Poetry falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Poetry
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Poetry in the UK

Poetry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Poetry in the UK

Poetry
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Poetry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Poetry in the UK

Poetry
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Poetry 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
England +61 7 £380 -24.00% 1
London +41 6 £380 -24.00% 1
Work from Home - 4 £380 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £520 -
South East - 1 £520 -

Poetry
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 5 (71.43%) Apache Spark
1 5 (71.43%) nginx
2 1 (14.29%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) HTTP
1 5 (71.43%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (71.43%) Apache Hive
2 5 (71.43%) Apache Iceberg
2 5 (71.43%) Hadoop
2 5 (71.43%) Parquet
2 5 (71.43%) Presto
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
2 5 (71.43%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) AWS DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Dask
1 5 (71.43%) LAPP Stack
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 1 (14.29%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) Celery
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
2 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Data Science
2 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Trunk-Based Development
3 2 (28.57%) Dependency Management
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kustomize