SOLID Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SOLID Principles
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing SOLID 10 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.26% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +100.00%
75th Percentile £398 - -
90th Percentile £415 - -
South West median daily rate £395 - £735
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 717 654 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 90.64% 82.26% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 360 577
10th Percentile £240 £227 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £645
90th Percentile £739 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 89 124
10th Percentile £13.69 £35.00 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £52.19
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOLID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SOLID job vacancy trend in Bristol

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SOLID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SOLID

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Electronics
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (30.00%) Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Senior
4 3 (30.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Developer
4 3 (30.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Lead .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Lead C# Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Lead Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior C# Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Android Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
6 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 5 (50.00%) Node.js
1 5 (50.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (20.00%) Android SDK
3 2 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (10.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) BDD
1 8 (80.00%) TDD
2 7 (70.00%) OO
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) OOP
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (30.00%) OWASP
5 3 (30.00%) Pair Programming
5 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (20.00%) Android Development
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Google