Drools Contracts

Drools
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Drools skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Drools over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 691 824
Rank change year-on-year +126 +133 -116
Contract jobs citing Drools 19 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.011% 0.028%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.047% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 21
10th Percentile £416 £496 £538
25th Percentile £450 £603 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.82% +14.58% +19.40%
75th Percentile £527 £700 £644
90th Percentile £539 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £688 £578
% change year-on-year -25.82% +19.05% +16.96%

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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Drools.

Daily rate trend for Drools in the UK

Drools
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Drools over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Drools in the UK

Drools
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Drools.

Hourly rate trend for Drools in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drools within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +100 19 £496 -29.11%
UK excluding London +36 13 £510 -25.82%
East of England - 13 £510 -
London - 6 £450 -
Work from Home +117 2 £509 +13.06%

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 6 (31.58%) Alfresco
1 6 (31.58%) Appian
1 6 (31.58%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Git
2 7 (36.84%) JUnit
2 7 (36.84%) Mockito
3 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (26.32%) Maven
General
1 5 (26.32%) Front Office
2 3 (15.79%) Aviation
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Java Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Development Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) JSON
2 7 (36.84%) Quarkus
2 7 (36.84%) RESTful
2 7 (36.84%) Spring
2 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 6 (31.58%) jBPM
4 5 (26.32%) REST
4 5 (26.32%) Swagger
5 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (26.32%) Low-Code
3 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
1 7 (36.84%) Decision Table
1 7 (36.84%) Microservices
1 7 (36.84%) TDD
2 6 (31.58%) BPMN
2 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
2 6 (31.58%) Workflow
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
3 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Community of Practice
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (10.53%) OO
5 2 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (63.16%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Groovy
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (26.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Pega
2 5 (26.32%) Splunk
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft