You aren't gonna need it (YAGNI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for YAGNI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited YAGNI over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 697 839
Rank change year-on-year +109 +142 -140
Contract jobs citing YAGNI 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.004% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £470
25th Percentile - £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -22.73% +24.29%
75th Percentile - £438 £588
90th Percentile - - £610
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.15

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

YAGNI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for YAGNI in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for YAGNI in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for YAGNI in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YAGNI within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 +107 2 - - 2
UK excluding London +54 2 - - 2
South East - 2 - -

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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%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) 802.1X
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atmel