SOLID Contracts in London

SOLID Principles
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 410 374
Rank change year-on-year +79 -36 -64
Contract jobs citing SOLID 61 85 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.31% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.35% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 56 185
10th Percentile £400 £481 £450
25th Percentile £464 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £675
90th Percentile £725 £844 £715
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £61.72
25th Percentile - - £64.30
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £68.59
Median % change year-on-year - +31.21% +0.34%
75th Percentile - - £72.89
90th Percentile - - £75.46
England median hourly rate - £90.00 £62.15
% change year-on-year - +44.81% -9.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,788 24,627 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 91.11% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,707 26,166
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £47.56 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in London

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in London

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London +35 7 £483 -8.96% 3
West London +15 1 - -
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England

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (13.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (59.02%) Azure
2 18 (29.51%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (16.39%) Azure Logic Apps
3 10 (16.39%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (13.11%) AWS
5 7 (11.48%) NuGet
5 7 (11.48%) PaaS
6 6 (9.84%) Azure API Management
6 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.20%) Serverless
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Functions
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (4.92%) SaaS
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.64%) AWS CodeCommit
11 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.64%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (32.79%) NoSQL
2 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
3 8 (13.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (13.11%) Relational Database
4 7 (11.48%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.28%) RavenDB
7 1 (1.64%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.64%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) Git
2 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.48%) JIRA
3 5 (8.20%) JUnit
3 5 (8.20%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.92%) NUnit
4 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.28%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.28%) GitLab
5 2 (3.28%) Jasmine
5 2 (3.28%) Moq
5 2 (3.28%) Postman
5 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.64%) Gradle
6 1 (1.64%) kappa
6 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (24.59%) Finance
2 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Law
3 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.20%) Front Office
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Electronics
8 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.64%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (63.93%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 10 (16.39%) C# Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Azure Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Senior
5 7 (11.48%) .NET Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Senior Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Architect
6 6 (9.84%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Lead
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Angular Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) C# Software Developer
9 3 (4.92%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (72.13%) .NET
2 27 (44.26%) REST
3 14 (22.95%) .NET Core
3 14 (22.95%) ASP.NET
4 13 (21.31%) HTML
5 12 (19.67%) Web Services
6 11 (18.03%) React
6 11 (18.03%) Vue
7 10 (16.39%) CSS
7 10 (16.39%) Spring
7 10 (16.39%) Spring Boot
8 9 (14.75%) ASP.NET Core
8 9 (14.75%) GraphQL
8 9 (14.75%) SOAP
9 8 (13.11%) AngularJS
9 8 (13.11%) Node.js
10 7 (11.48%) YAML
11 6 (9.84%) .NET Framework
11 6 (9.84%) Kafka
12 5 (8.20%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Cloud Native
1 7 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.92%) Wiki
3 2 (3.28%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) TDD
2 24 (39.34%) DevOps
3 23 (37.70%) OO
4 22 (36.07%) Design Patterns
4 22 (36.07%) Microservices
5 21 (34.43%) Agile
6 18 (29.51%) CI/CD
6 18 (29.51%) Software Engineering
6 18 (29.51%) Unit Testing
7 14 (22.95%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (22.95%) MVC
7 14 (22.95%) Scrum
8 12 (19.67%) OOP
8 12 (19.67%) Web Development
9 11 (18.03%) High Availability
9 11 (18.03%) Test Automation
10 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
10 10 (16.39%) MVVM
11 9 (14.75%) API Management
12 8 (13.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (73.77%) C#
2 23 (37.70%) SQL
3 19 (31.15%) JavaScript
4 14 (22.95%) Java
5 11 (18.03%) Python
6 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
7 7 (11.48%) Bicep
8 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) Bash
9 1 (1.64%) F#
9 1 (1.64%) Groovy
9 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) WCAG
4 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Terraform
2 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.92%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) Istio
5 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle
2 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.64%) SAP
3 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.64%) TIBCO
3 1 (1.64%) Xamarin