SOLID Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

SOLID Principles
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 39 50
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing SOLID 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.16% 1.06% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 1.14% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £304 £373
25th Percentile - £311 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £321 £494
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -34.99% -24.04%
75th Percentile - £448 £625
90th Percentile - £524 -
South East median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 481 264 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.98% 93.29% 84.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 191 332
10th Percentile £250 £210 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £659
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 11 37
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.20 £15.94
25th Percentile £16.24 £17.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £24.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.67% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £29.61 £55.63 £30.00
90th Percentile £32.81 £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year -32.35% +3.03% -8.33%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

SOLID job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SOLID

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -19 1 £306 -1.45% 1
SOLID
South East

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle