Rational DOORS Contracts

IBM Rational DOORS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Rational DOORS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rational DOORS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 491 572
Rank change year-on-year +6 +81 +213
Contract jobs citing Rational DOORS 34 109 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.83% 2.11% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 37 42
10th Percentile £474 - £477
25th Percentile £475 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.00% +16.50%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £625
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -13.04% -2.54% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 36 74
10th Percentile £47.50 £57.33 £45.79
25th Percentile £52.18 £65.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.25 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +16.47% +19.06%
75th Percentile £87.50 £90.00 £69.69
90th Percentile £89.50 - £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £74.25 £61.50
% change year-on-year +1.01% +20.73% +12.84%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Rational DOORS 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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
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 £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £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 £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Rational DOORS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Rational DOORS in the UK

Rational DOORS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Rational DOORS in the UK

Rational DOORS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rational DOORS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rational DOORS in the UK

Rational DOORS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Rational DOORS.

Hourly rate trend for Rational DOORS in the UK

Rational DOORS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Rational DOORS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Rational DOORS in the UK

Rational DOORS
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rational DOORS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -18 28 £500 -16.67% 106
UK excluding London -20 28 £500 -13.04% 110
South East +21 12 £500 -4.76% 32
Work from Home +28 6 £635 +20.95% 71
East of England +17 5 - - 13
South West +8 5 £625 -4.76% 34
North West - 4 - - 4
North of England - 4 - - 11
London +29 1 £635 -2.31% 1
Midlands +20 1 - - 18
West Midlands +15 1 - - 16
Scotland - 1 - - 4

Rational DOORS
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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) Azure
1 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Bitbucket
1 8 (23.53%) Git
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 7 (20.59%) GoogleTest
2 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.59%) TestRail
3 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.94%) Axure RP
4 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.94%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (2.94%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (2.94%) VectorCAST
General
1 4 (11.76%) Military
2 3 (8.82%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.88%) Aviation
4 1 (2.94%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Software Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Embedded Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Senior
2 10 (29.41%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) C++ Software Engineer
4 8 (23.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Product Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) PCIe
2 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (8.82%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (5.88%) VxWorks
4 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Software Engineering
2 13 (38.24%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) Requirements Management
3 12 (35.29%) Systems Engineering
4 9 (26.47%) Validation
4 9 (26.47%) Verification and Validation
5 8 (23.53%) Scrum
6 7 (20.59%) Clean Code
6 7 (20.59%) Computer Science
6 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (20.59%) Design Patterns
6 7 (20.59%) Kanban
6 7 (20.59%) Multithreaded Programming
6 7 (20.59%) Multithreading
6 7 (20.59%) OO
6 7 (20.59%) OOD
6 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.59%) SOLID
6 7 (20.59%) Storyboarding
6 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) C++
2 6 (17.65%) C
3 2 (5.88%) Assembly Language
3 2 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) Ada
4 1 (2.94%) Embedded C
4 1 (2.94%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) Degree
4 7 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (14.71%) RIBA
6 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.94%) HNC
7 1 (2.94%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) MISRA
1 2 (5.88%) MISRA C
2 1 (2.94%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.94%) DO-178B
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 26262
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) Wind River
4 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.88%) IBM
5 1 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.94%) IFS