Domain-Driven Design Job Trends

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Domain-Driven Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 621 610
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +33
Permanent jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 48 125 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44 72 81
10th Percentile £51,275 £47,500 £56,000
25th Percentile £61,875 £60,729 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,518 £70,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £100,064
90th Percentile £90,875 £115,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,000 £62,779 £85,000
% change year-on-year +17.87% -26.14% +47.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Domain-Driven Design 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,704 54,735 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.99% 86.52% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 28,159 28,437 36,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Domain-Driven Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Domain-Driven Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Domain-Driven Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Domain-Driven Design

Domain-Driven Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Domain-Driven Design within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +45 47 £75,535 +7.91% 21
London +41 24 £79,000 +12.86% 9
Work from Home +38 19 £71,250 +1.79% 20
UK excluding London +40 18 £74,000 +17.87% 17
North of England +33 7 £74,000 +17.87% 7
North West +40 6 £72,000 +14.69% 4
South East +28 5 £67,768 +39.01% 4
Midlands +41 3 £47,500 -35.71% 2
West Midlands +28 2 £47,500 -24.34%
East of England - 2 £70,000 - 1
Scotland +10 1 £82,500 -3.23% 1
Yorkshire -7 1 £77,500 +23.45% 1
East Midlands - 1 £74,500 - 2

Domain-Driven Design
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 2 (4.17%) NServiceBus
2 1 (2.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.08%) Kentico
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (66.67%) AWS
2 30 (62.50%) Azure
3 10 (20.83%) GCP
4 5 (10.42%) GitHub
4 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (10.42%) Serverless
5 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.33%) SaaS
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) MySQL
2 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.08%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Retail
3 4 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Architect
2 14 (29.17%) Software Engineer
3 13 (27.08%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (25.00%) Senior
5 11 (22.92%) Developer
5 11 (22.92%) Lead
6 10 (20.83%) Lead Architect
6 10 (20.83%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 6 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 5 (10.42%) C# Developer
8 5 (10.42%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) C# Architect
9 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (8.33%) Software Architect
10 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Azure Architect
10 3 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) .NET
2 11 (22.92%) React
3 7 (14.58%) .NET Core
3 7 (14.58%) RESTful
4 5 (10.42%) Spring
5 4 (8.33%) FastAPI
5 4 (8.33%) Node.js
5 4 (8.33%) REST
5 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 4 (8.33%) Vue
6 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.25%) Jest
6 3 (6.25%) Kafka
7 2 (4.17%) Apache Cordova
7 2 (4.17%) CSS
7 2 (4.17%) HTML
7 2 (4.17%) Playwright
7 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.17%) Symfony
7 2 (4.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.33%) AS400
3 4 (8.33%) iSeries
4 3 (6.25%) Reinsurance
5 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) DevOps
2 22 (45.83%) Microservices
3 20 (41.67%) Agile
4 19 (39.58%) Software Engineering
5 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 17 (35.42%) TDD
7 16 (33.33%) Event-Driven
8 13 (27.08%) Architectural Patterns
8 13 (27.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (27.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (22.92%) Containerisation
9 11 (22.92%) Observability
10 10 (20.83%) Community of Practice
10 10 (20.83%) Decision-Making
10 10 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (18.75%) Product Strategy
12 8 (16.67%) Customer Experience
12 8 (16.67%) Data Architecture
12 8 (16.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) C#
2 9 (18.75%) Java
2 9 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.58%) Python
5 4 (8.33%) Go
5 4 (8.33%) SQL
6 3 (6.25%) PHP
7 2 (4.17%) C
8 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.08%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) IBM
3 3 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (4.17%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) Siebel