Don't repeat yourself (DRY) Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Don't repeat yourself (DRY) skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 574 520
Rank change year-on-year +62 -54 +135
Permanent jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) 5 6 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.016% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.018% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 31
10th Percentile - £45,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -13.64% -31.25%
75th Percentile - £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £78,267 £70,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% -31.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY) falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,380 32,892 27,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.58% 88.28% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,063 15,104 20,736
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,755 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,070
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Don't repeat yourself (DRY) job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY)

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK excluding London

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +27 4 £81,750 -4.11% 4
North East - 2 £68,500 - 1
North West - 2 £95,000 - 1
South East - 1 £95,000 - 2
Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
UK

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Engineering Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) Blazor
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) WebAssembly
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SOLID
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) B2B
4 2 (40.00%) B2C
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Kanban
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) SOA
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform