Drools
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Drools skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Drools over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 710 807 847
Rank change year-on-year +97 +40 +385
Permanent jobs citing Drools 6 23 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.026% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.061% 0.13% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +72.73%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £97,500
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 9,780 17,216 21,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 19.27% 27.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,851 12,329 15,912
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £105,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Drools
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Drools in the UK

Drools
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Drools.

Salary trend for Drools in the UK

Drools
Top 7 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 31 July 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 - 6 £80,000 - 1
UK excluding London +84 3 £80,000 - 1
London - 3 - -
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 £80,000 - 1
North of England - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -

Drools
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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Gradle
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (50.00%) Law
2 3 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Pricing Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Real Time Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) Micronaut
2 3 (50.00%) Quarkus
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) B2B
2 3 (50.00%) Campaign Management
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Fintech
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Personalization
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) OOP
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle