Poetry Contract Job Trends

Poetry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Poetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 528 597
Rank change year-on-year -57 +69 -
Contract jobs citing Poetry 5 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.018% 0.007%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.091% 0.14% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £376 £368 -
25th Percentile £378 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £399 - £513
90th Percentile £401 £578 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 - -

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 5,501 4,427 5,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.87% 13.30% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,791 2,789 3,820
10th Percentile £335 £330 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.63% -2.32%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £513
% change year-on-year -1.14% -6.34% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 78 203
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.20 £41.92
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.44 £48.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.60 £75.55 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Poetry
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Poetry job vacancy trend in the UK

Poetry
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Poetry
Top 7 Contract Job 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 30 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
England -47 5 £390 +2.50% 2
UK excluding London - 4 £384 - 2
Work from Home -8 2 £393 +3.42% 1
Midlands - 2 £402 -
South East - 2 £380 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £402 -
London -22 1 £395 +3.95% 1

Poetry
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 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Dagster
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Parquet
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (60.00%) PyCharm
2 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (40.00%) MLflow
3 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) Pylint
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Flask
1 4 (80.00%) NumPy
1 4 (80.00%) Pandas
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (20.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Dependency Management
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Memory Management
4 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Groovy
4 1 (20.00%) Bicep
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 2 (40.00%) Istio
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Google