SOLID Contracts in Central London

SOLID Principles
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SOLID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOLID over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 164 169
Rank change year-on-year +35 +5 -24
Contract jobs citing SOLID 7 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.29% 0.29% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.32% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 29
10th Percentile £455 £505 -
25th Percentile £481 £516 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +0.95% -7.49%
75th Percentile £650 £753 £675
90th Percentile £673 £851 £734
London median daily rate £575 £575 £580
% change year-on-year - -0.86% +10.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

SOLID 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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 3,473 4,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.23% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 2,356 3,186
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Central London

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Central London

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in Central London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in Central London

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 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
City of London +40 7 £483 -8.10% 2
SOLID
London

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Android Studio
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Moq
2 1 (14.29%) MSTest
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Android Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Android Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) HTML
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) Vue
3 2 (28.57%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (14.29%) JPA
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
4 1 (14.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 4 (57.14%) MVVM
2 4 (57.14%) Web Development
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) OO
3 3 (42.86%) OOP
3 3 (42.86%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce