SOLID Contracts in London

SOLID Principles
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SOLID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOLID over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 405 405
Rank change year-on-year +65 0 -58
Contract jobs citing SOLID 59 77 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.31% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.34% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 50 153
10th Percentile £400 £458 £450
25th Percentile £463 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £631 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +8.84% +10.48%
75th Percentile £684 £725 £665
90th Percentile £725 £839 £725
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £64.50 £90.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.33% +38.46% +2.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

SOLID falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,610 22,863 35,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,175 16,559 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £446 £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 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +8.33% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in London over the 6 months to 11 June 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 11 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
Central London +33 8 £516 -20.70% 2
West London +19 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 6 (10.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (67.80%) Azure
2 17 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.64%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (16.95%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (11.86%) AWS
5 7 (11.86%) Serverless
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (10.17%) NuGet
6 6 (10.17%) PaaS
7 5 (8.47%) Azure API Management
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Functions
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (5.08%) SaaS
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.39%) Dagster
9 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.69%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.51%) NoSQL
2 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
3 9 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (13.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (13.56%) Relational Database
5 7 (11.86%) MongoDB
6 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.69%) CockroachDB
9 1 (1.69%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.69%) MySQL
9 1 (1.69%) Power BI
9 1 (1.69%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (1.69%) RavenDB
9 1 (1.69%) Redis
9 1 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (30.51%) Git
2 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.17%) JIRA
3 5 (8.47%) JUnit
4 4 (6.78%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.08%) Moq
5 3 (5.08%) NUnit
5 3 (5.08%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.39%) GitLab
6 2 (3.39%) kappa
6 2 (3.39%) Postman
6 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.69%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.69%) Maven
7 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.69%) Poetry
7 1 (1.69%) Serilog
7 1 (1.69%) Spock
General
1 14 (23.73%) Finance
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Law
3 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.47%) Front Office
5 4 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Electronics
8 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (66.10%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) C# Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Full Stack Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Azure Developer
5 7 (11.86%) .NET Developer
6 6 (10.17%) Data Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Architect
7 5 (8.47%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Senior
7 5 (8.47%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Angular Developer
8 4 (6.78%) C# Software Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead
9 3 (5.08%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (72.88%) .NET
2 22 (37.29%) REST
3 13 (22.03%) .NET Core
4 12 (20.34%) ASP.NET
4 12 (20.34%) HTML
4 12 (20.34%) Web Services
5 10 (16.95%) React
5 10 (16.95%) Spring
5 10 (16.95%) Spring Boot
6 9 (15.25%) AngularJS
6 9 (15.25%) CSS
6 9 (15.25%) SOAP
7 8 (13.56%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (13.56%) Node.js
7 8 (13.56%) Vue
7 8 (13.56%) YAML
8 6 (10.17%) Kafka
8 6 (10.17%) XML
9 5 (8.47%) .NET Framework
9 5 (8.47%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.39%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.39%) Wiki
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) TDD
2 22 (37.29%) DevOps
3 20 (33.90%) OO
4 19 (32.20%) Agile
4 19 (32.20%) Design Patterns
4 19 (32.20%) Microservices
5 18 (30.51%) CI/CD
5 18 (30.51%) Software Engineering
5 18 (30.51%) Unit Testing
6 13 (22.03%) Scrum
7 11 (18.64%) Mentoring
7 11 (18.64%) OOP
8 10 (16.95%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (16.95%) High Availability
8 10 (16.95%) MVC
8 10 (16.95%) Web Development
9 9 (15.25%) API Management
9 9 (15.25%) MVVM
9 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
10 8 (13.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (71.19%) C#
2 21 (35.59%) SQL
3 16 (27.12%) JavaScript
4 14 (23.73%) Java
5 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
6 10 (16.95%) Python
7 6 (10.17%) Bicep
8 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.69%) F#
9 1 (1.69%) Groovy
9 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.69%) PyPy
9 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (11.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (23.73%) Terraform
2 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.08%) Grafana
4 2 (3.39%) Istio
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.69%) Confluent
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Solace
5 1 (1.69%) Xamarin