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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 350 359
Rank change year-on-year +71 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing SOLID 60 113 285
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.53% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 213
10th Percentile £327 £388 £401
25th Percentile £434 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £671 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £665
UK median daily rate £508 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -4.25% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £90.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.33% +38.46% +8.33%

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 12,873 21,488 40,445
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.49% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,658 15,241 29,441
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 501 519
10th Percentile £14.91 £17.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.94
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.00 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%

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 7 June 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

SOLID
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 (6.67%) CMS
2 3 (5.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (60.00%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (10.00%) AWS
5 6 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (8.33%) Azure API Management
6 5 (8.33%) Serverless
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 4 (6.67%) NuGet
8 3 (5.00%) PaaS
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.67%) Figma
10 1 (1.67%) GCP
10 1 (1.67%) IaaS
10 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 8 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (8.33%) MySQL
5 2 (3.33%) CockroachDB
5 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.67%) SQLite
6 1 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) Postman
3 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.33%) Moq
5 1 (1.67%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.67%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) JMeter
5 1 (1.67%) JUnit
5 1 (1.67%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.67%) MSTest
5 1 (1.67%) NUnit
5 1 (1.67%) Selenium
5 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.67%) webpack
General
1 11 (18.33%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Law
5 4 (6.67%) Tech for Good
6 3 (5.00%) Front Office
6 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Electronics
7 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (73.33%) Developer
2 10 (16.67%) Azure Developer
2 10 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 9 (15.00%) .NET Developer
3 9 (15.00%) Software Developer
4 7 (11.67%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Senior
6 5 (8.33%) Android Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Mobile Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Angular Developer
7 4 (6.67%) C# Software Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) iOS Android Developer
7 4 (6.67%) iOS Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Lead
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (66.67%) .NET
2 18 (30.00%) HTML
2 18 (30.00%) REST
3 17 (28.33%) CSS
4 15 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 13 (21.67%) .NET Core
5 13 (21.67%) Vue
6 12 (20.00%) Node.js
7 11 (18.33%) AngularJS
7 11 (18.33%) Web Services
8 10 (16.67%) .NET Framework
9 9 (15.00%) React
10 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (10.00%) Entity Framework
11 6 (10.00%) Kafka
11 6 (10.00%) SOAP
12 5 (8.33%) RESTful
12 5 (8.33%) Spring
12 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
13 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Android
2 5 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.33%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) TDD
2 22 (36.67%) OO
3 20 (33.33%) Agile
3 20 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 17 (28.33%) Microservices
5 16 (26.67%) Clean Code
5 16 (26.67%) DevOps
6 15 (25.00%) MVC
7 14 (23.33%) Web Development
8 12 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 11 (18.33%) MVVM
9 11 (18.33%) OOP
9 11 (18.33%) Unit Testing
10 10 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (15.00%) Event-Driven
12 8 (13.33%) Responsive Web Design
12 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
13 6 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 39 (65.00%) C#
2 28 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 20 (33.33%) SQL
4 11 (18.33%) Java
5 8 (13.33%) Python
6 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
7 5 (8.33%) PHP
7 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.67%) Bicep
9 3 (5.00%) Bash
10 2 (3.33%) C++
10 2 (3.33%) Kotlin
10 2 (3.33%) Perl
11 1 (1.67%) Scala
11 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) SAP
3 2 (3.33%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.67%) Databricks