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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 367 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Poetry 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.032% 0.006% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.22% 0.046% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £378 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% - -
75th Percentile £434 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
UK median daily rate £393 £700 -
% change year-on-year -43.86% - -

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 2,263 2,172 2,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.63% 12.20% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,331 1,798
10th Percentile £306 £350 £353
25th Percentile £400 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £627 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 152 196
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.49 £53.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Poetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Poetry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Poetry 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Poetry in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Poetry in the UK excluding London

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 17 September 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
South East - 3 £384 -
West Midlands - 2 £402 -
Midlands - 2 £402 - 1
Poetry
UK

Poetry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (20.00%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Dagster
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Parquet
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Redis
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) PyCharm
2 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (40.00%) MLflow
3 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) Pylint
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Flask
2 3 (60.00%) NumPy
2 3 (60.00%) Pandas
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (20.00%) Celery
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (20.00%) PySpark
4 1 (20.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Dependency Management
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Memory Management
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
5 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Groovy
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Istio
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Google