Poetry Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Poetry
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Poetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 367 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Poetry 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.006% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.16% 0.047% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £377 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.20% - -
75th Percentile £395 - -
90th Percentile £399 - -
UK median daily rate £384 £700 -
% change year-on-year -45.14% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Poetry falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,472 2,130 2,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.14% 12.69% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 1,253 1,796
10th Percentile £313 £338 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £638 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 140 198
10th Percentile £16.84 £42.38 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.27 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.04 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Poetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Poetry relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Poetry job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Poetry
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Poetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Poetry

Poetry
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Poetry within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 2 £402 -
South East - 2 £380 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £402 -
Poetry
UK

Poetry
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Dagster
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SSH
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Parquet
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) PyCharm
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (50.00%) MLflow
3 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) Pylint
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Flask
1 3 (75.00%) NumPy
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Memory Management
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Groovy
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Argo
1 2 (50.00%) Istio
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Google