SOLID Contracts in England

SOLID Principles
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 468 415
Rank change year-on-year +38 -53 -24
Contract jobs citing SOLID 113 182 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.36% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.40% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 126 320
10th Percentile £400 £413 £401
25th Percentile £459 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £61.08
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year - +44.81% -9.08%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £69.87
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 £62.15
% change year-on-year - +44.81% -9.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in England

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in England

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in England

SOLID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London +82 60 £575 -2.13% 37
South East +17 23 £500 -16.67% 20
North of England +7 10 £475 -5.00% 29
North West +17 9 £475 - 21
South West +8 9 £450 -35.71% 5
West Midlands +25 2 £338 -34.15% 7
Midlands +18 2 £338 +3.85% 16
East of England +13 1 £450 +5.88% 7
Yorkshire +12 1 - - 5
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UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (7.96%) Confluence
2 3 (2.65%) CMS
2 3 (2.65%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (52.21%) Azure
2 30 (26.55%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (15.04%) Azure Logic Apps
4 13 (11.50%) AWS
4 13 (11.50%) Serverless
5 12 (10.62%) Azure Functions
5 12 (10.62%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (9.73%) Azure API Management
6 11 (9.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (8.85%) PaaS
8 7 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.19%) NuGet
9 6 (5.31%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (4.42%) npm
11 4 (3.54%) SaaS
11 4 (3.54%) Yarn
12 3 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.65%) Figma
12 3 (2.65%) GitHub
13 2 (1.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.88%) Internet
2 1 (0.88%) NFC
2 1 (0.88%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.66%) NoSQL
2 18 (15.93%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (11.50%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.19%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.42%) Redis
7 4 (3.54%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.65%) CockroachDB
8 3 (2.65%) Couchbase
8 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.77%) MySQL
9 2 (1.77%) RavenDB
10 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (23.89%) Git
2 12 (10.62%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.85%) JIRA
4 9 (7.96%) Visual Studio
5 6 (5.31%) Jasmine
5 6 (5.31%) TeamCity
6 5 (4.42%) JUnit
6 5 (4.42%) webpack
7 4 (3.54%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (3.54%) Mocha
7 4 (3.54%) Postman
8 3 (2.65%) NUnit
8 3 (2.65%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.77%) GitLab
9 2 (1.77%) Moq
9 2 (1.77%) Selenium
9 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.88%) kappa
General
1 23 (20.35%) Finance
2 11 (9.73%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.85%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.19%) Law
5 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.42%) Front Office
6 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.54%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.65%) Banking
8 2 (1.77%) Electronics
8 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.77%) Marketing
8 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (66.37%) Developer
2 18 (15.93%) C# Developer
3 16 (14.16%) .NET Developer
4 15 (13.27%) Full Stack Developer
5 14 (12.39%) Azure Developer
5 14 (12.39%) Senior
6 13 (11.50%) Java Developer
6 13 (11.50%) Software Engineer
7 11 (9.73%) Architect
7 11 (9.73%) Software Developer
8 10 (8.85%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.08%) Lead
10 6 (5.31%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.42%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.54%) C# Software Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Full Stack .NET Developer
12 4 (3.54%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (62.83%) .NET
2 39 (34.51%) REST
3 22 (19.47%) ASP.NET
3 22 (19.47%) Web Services
4 21 (18.58%) HTML
4 21 (18.58%) React
5 20 (17.70%) .NET Core
5 20 (17.70%) CSS
6 16 (14.16%) Kafka
7 15 (13.27%) AngularJS
7 15 (13.27%) Node.js
7 15 (13.27%) Spring
7 15 (13.27%) Spring Boot
7 15 (13.27%) Vue
8 13 (11.50%) SOAP
9 12 (10.62%) .NET Framework
9 12 (10.62%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (8.85%) RESTful
11 9 (7.96%) GraphQL
11 9 (7.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (9.73%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.08%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.54%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.54%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.65%) Wiki
6 2 (1.77%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.77%) IoT
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.88%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.42%) Linux
1 5 (4.42%) Windows
2 4 (3.54%) Android
2 4 (3.54%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (2.65%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (43.36%) OO
1 49 (43.36%) TDD
2 45 (39.82%) Agile
3 40 (35.40%) Design Patterns
4 37 (32.74%) DevOps
5 34 (30.09%) Microservices
6 31 (27.43%) Software Engineering
7 30 (26.55%) CI/CD
8 28 (24.78%) Unit Testing
9 25 (22.12%) Scrum
10 24 (21.24%) Full Stack Development
11 23 (20.35%) Clean Code
11 23 (20.35%) MVC
12 22 (19.47%) OOP
13 18 (15.93%) Test Automation
14 17 (15.04%) Web Development
15 16 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (13.27%) MVVM
17 13 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
18 12 (10.62%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 80 (70.80%) C#
2 42 (37.17%) SQL
3 40 (35.40%) JavaScript
4 23 (20.35%) Java
5 18 (15.93%) Python
6 14 (12.39%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.96%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.19%) Bicep
9 6 (5.31%) PHP
10 5 (4.42%) Bash
11 4 (3.54%) C++
11 4 (3.54%) Perl
12 2 (1.77%) C
13 1 (0.88%) F#
13 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.88%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.88%) Scala
13 1 (0.88%) Swift
13 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.08%) Degree
2 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.54%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.42%) QA
2 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (9.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.27%) Terraform
2 11 (9.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.65%) Grafana
4 2 (1.77%) Istio
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.31%) Oracle
3 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.77%) Atmel
4 2 (1.77%) SAP
4 2 (1.77%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe
5 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.88%) Google
5 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.88%) TIBCO