SOLID Contracts in Belfast

SOLID Principles
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing SOLID 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 0.68% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.29%
75th Percentile - - £535
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median daily rate - - £490
% change year-on-year - - +13.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 91 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 91.84% 73.39% 81.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £345 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £515
90th Percentile £625 £663 £638
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.40
25th Percentile £23.76 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £32.13 £12.62 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +154.56% -17.25% +34.24%
75th Percentile £58.85 £14.78 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £19.19 £18.12
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £15.25
% change year-on-year +87.45% -6.98% -3.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Belfast

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio