Domain-Driven Design Contracts

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Domain-Driven Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 603 637
Rank change year-on-year +63 +34 -100
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 51 102 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 77 159
10th Percentile £445 £454 £425
25th Percentile £525 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £583 £585
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -0.34% +11.43%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £641
90th Percentile £775 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £550 £531
% change year-on-year +22.73% +3.58% +16.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Domain-Driven Design 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 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
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 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Domain-Driven Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Domain-Driven Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Domain-Driven Design.

Daily rate trend for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Domain-Driven Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Domain-Driven Design in the UK

Domain-Driven Design
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Domain-Driven Design within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +74 46 £650 +9.24% 42
UK excluding London +52 29 £675 +22.73% 30
London +57 20 £620 -4.62% 15
South East +32 14 £750 +3.09% 7
Work from Home +96 9 £520 +4.00% 26
Midlands +37 5 £445 -3.26% 7
East Midlands +28 5 £445 +36.92% 6
South West +8 5 £675 +22.73% 3
North of England +28 3 £445 -14.42% 9
North West +14 3 £445 -14.42% 6
Scotland - 2 £400 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
East of England +6 1 £550 -5.66%

Domain-Driven Design
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 (1.96%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) Azure
2 23 (45.10%) AWS
3 7 (13.73%) GCP
4 6 (11.76%) SaaS
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (7.84%) OCI
7 3 (5.88%) Azure App Service
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) Serverless
8 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.96%) PaaS
9 1 (1.96%) SAP Fieldglass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 7 (13.73%) DB2
2 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
3 6 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.88%) SpecFlow
3 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
3 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.92%) GitLab
3 2 (3.92%) Postman
3 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 29 (56.86%) Finance
2 13 (25.49%) Banking
3 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Front Office
4 6 (11.76%) Retail
5 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.92%) Law
7 1 (1.96%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Architect
2 12 (23.53%) Developer
3 10 (19.61%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (17.65%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) C# Software Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
5 6 (11.76%) Senior
6 5 (9.80%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 4 (7.84%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.88%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.92%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.92%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Head of Technology
9 2 (3.92%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (50.98%) .NET
2 14 (27.45%) React
3 13 (25.49%) AngularJS
4 8 (15.69%) HTML
4 8 (15.69%) HTML5
5 7 (13.73%) .NET Framework
5 7 (13.73%) Entity Framework
5 7 (13.73%) REST
6 6 (11.76%) Angular 2
6 6 (11.76%) Blazor
6 6 (11.76%) Redux
7 5 (9.80%) Kafka
8 4 (7.84%) OpenID
8 4 (7.84%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (7.84%) Spring
9 3 (5.88%) JMS
10 2 (3.92%) CSS
10 2 (3.92%) CSS3
10 2 (3.92%) RESTful
10 2 (3.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Replication
2 5 (9.80%) Derivative
2 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.80%) Mainframe
2 5 (9.80%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Blockchain
3 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.92%) IoT
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.92%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Android
1 5 (9.80%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) Microservices
2 27 (52.94%) Agile
3 17 (33.33%) DevOps
4 16 (31.37%) Software Engineering
4 16 (31.37%) TDD
5 12 (23.53%) Architectural Design
5 12 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
5 12 (23.53%) Scrum
6 11 (21.57%) ArchiMate
7 10 (19.61%) TOGAF
8 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 8 (15.69%) BDD
9 8 (15.69%) SOLID
10 7 (13.73%) Design Patterns
10 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.76%) API Design
11 6 (11.76%) Software Testing
12 5 (9.80%) CQRS
12 5 (9.80%) Project Management
12 5 (9.80%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) C#
2 19 (37.25%) SQL
3 13 (25.49%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) C
4 5 (9.80%) Python
5 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.88%) Bicep
6 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.92%) Go
7 2 (3.92%) Scala
7 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) FATCA
1 1 (1.96%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (3.92%) Databricks
2 2 (3.92%) Genesys
2 2 (3.92%) Greenplum
2 2 (3.92%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.96%) Calypso
3 1 (1.96%) Concur
3 1 (1.96%) Finsemble
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Murex
3 1 (1.96%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.96%) SAP
3 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.96%) TIBCO
3 1 (1.96%) Wallstreet Suite
3 1 (1.96%) Workday