Drools Job Trends

Drools
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Drools skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 691 718
Rank change year-on-year +40 +27 +272
Permanent jobs citing Drools 2 8 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.015% 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.028% 0.069% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Drools falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,080 11,547 13,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,272 6,787 11,241
10th Percentile £35,760 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £109,875 £109,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Drools
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Drools job vacancy trend in the UK

Drools
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drools.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Drools

Drools
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Drools within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +55 1 £80,000 -
UK excluding London +50 1 £80,000 -
South East +29 1 £80,000 -

Drools
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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Liquibase
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle