SOLID Contracts in Berkshire

SOLID Principles
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 99 109
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing SOLID 2 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.56% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.65% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +9.29% -12.86%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £506
90th Percentile - - £563
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 1,701 1,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.30% 86.74% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 846 1,020
10th Percentile £325 £266 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% -1.66% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 111 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.50 £17.70
25th Percentile £26.23 £41.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £54.25 £58.49 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -0.44% +179.43%
75th Percentile £77.89 £72.04 £74.00
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.47% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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
Reading +29 2 £550 +10.00% 7
SOLID
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Gen AI Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (100.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Virgin Media