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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Poetry 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
UK median daily rate £385 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -24.00% -

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 2,600 1,786 2,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.34% 13.22% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,778 1,075 1,635
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £652 £650 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 53 188
10th Percentile £39.00 £45.24 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.77
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.05 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 9 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 1 £375 -
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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Pylint
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google