SOLID Contracts with Work from Home Options

SOLID Principles
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 341 361
Rank change year-on-year +65 +20 -18
Contract jobs citing SOLID 68 133 278
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.58% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 100 215
10th Percentile £343 £375 £401
25th Percentile £438 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +7.14% +9.95%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £543 £530
% change year-on-year -7.83% +2.36% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.65
25th Percentile - - £61.61
Median hourly rate - - £62.15
75th Percentile - - £62.86
90th Percentile - - £64.15
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 £62.15
% change year-on-year - +44.81% -9.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

SOLID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOLID trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID.

SOLID daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOLID over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

SOLID daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOLID
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID.

SOLID hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (5.88%) CMS
2 3 (4.41%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) Azure
2 18 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.18%) Azure Logic Apps
3 11 (16.18%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (11.76%) AWS
4 8 (11.76%) Azure API Management
4 8 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (11.76%) Serverless
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Functions
6 5 (7.35%) PaaS
7 4 (5.88%) NuGet
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.94%) Figma
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.47%) IaaS
10 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.47%) npm
10 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) NFC
1 1 (1.47%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) NoSQL
2 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
3 9 (13.24%) Relational Database
4 8 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.88%) MySQL
6 3 (4.41%) CockroachDB
6 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.94%) Redis
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.47%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) Git
2 6 (8.82%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.35%) Postman
4 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.41%) JIRA
6 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.94%) Moq
6 2 (2.94%) webpack
7 1 (1.47%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.47%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.47%) MSTest
7 1 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.47%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.47%) Valgrind
General
1 12 (17.65%) Finance
2 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.35%) Law
5 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Tech for Good
6 3 (4.41%) Front Office
6 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Electronics
7 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
7 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (73.53%) Developer
2 12 (17.65%) Azure Developer
2 12 (17.65%) C# Developer
3 11 (16.18%) .NET Developer
4 9 (13.24%) Senior
4 9 (13.24%) Software Developer
5 8 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Android Developer
8 5 (7.35%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Mobile Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Angular Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Architect
9 4 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
9 4 (5.88%) iOS Android Developer
9 4 (5.88%) iOS Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Lead
9 4 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (63.24%) .NET
2 22 (32.35%) REST
3 17 (25.00%) CSS
3 17 (25.00%) HTML
4 14 (20.59%) ASP.NET
5 13 (19.12%) .NET Core
5 13 (19.12%) Node.js
5 13 (19.12%) Web Services
6 12 (17.65%) AngularJS
6 12 (17.65%) Vue
7 11 (16.18%) React
8 10 (14.71%) .NET Framework
9 8 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (11.76%) SOAP
10 7 (10.29%) Kafka
10 7 (10.29%) XML
11 6 (8.82%) Entity Framework
11 6 (8.82%) JSON
12 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (7.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.35%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.47%) W3C
5 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Android
2 5 (7.35%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.41%) Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.94%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) OO
2 26 (38.24%) TDD
3 22 (32.35%) Agile
4 21 (30.88%) Design Patterns
5 20 (29.41%) DevOps
6 19 (27.94%) Microservices
7 18 (26.47%) Clean Code
8 15 (22.06%) MVC
8 15 (22.06%) Software Engineering
9 14 (20.59%) Full Stack Development
9 14 (20.59%) Web Development
10 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
10 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
11 12 (17.65%) Unit Testing
12 11 (16.18%) MVVM
12 11 (16.18%) OOP
13 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
13 8 (11.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (67.65%) C#
2 29 (42.65%) JavaScript
3 25 (36.76%) SQL
4 12 (17.65%) Java
5 9 (13.24%) Python
6 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 7 (10.29%) TypeScript
8 5 (7.35%) PHP
9 4 (5.88%) Bicep
10 3 (4.41%) Bash
10 3 (4.41%) C++
11 2 (2.94%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.94%) Perl
12 1 (1.47%) Scala
12 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Terraform
2 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.94%) SAP
3 2 (2.94%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.47%) Adobe
4 1 (1.47%) Google