SOLID Contracts in the South West

SOLID Principles
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 146 154 162
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -22
Contract jobs citing SOLID 9 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.40% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile £360 £566 £436
25th Percentile £394 £620 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 £542
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +29.21% -5.78%
75th Percentile £494 £831 £588
90th Percentile £520 £856 £625
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the South West 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
Bristol +20 6 £413 - 5
Dorset +7 3 £525 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (33.33%) CMS
1 3 (33.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) CockroachDB
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Couchbase
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Tech for Good
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Umbraco Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Django Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Python/Django Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Team Leader
5 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Principal Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Django
4 2 (22.22%) Kafka
4 2 (22.22%) React
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) Laravel
5 1 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (11.11%) Spring
5 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
1 5 (55.56%) TDD
2 4 (44.44%) Full Stack Development
2 4 (44.44%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) API Design
4 2 (22.22%) Build Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP