SOLID Contracts in Cheshire

SOLID Principles
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -13
Contract jobs citing SOLID 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.40% - 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £460
25th Percentile £463 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £515
75th Percentile £488 - £540
90th Percentile - - £546
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £510
% change year-on-year - -6.86% +27.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 419 490 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.80% 91.76% 87.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 330 255
10th Percentile £294 £288 £215
25th Percentile £400 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.29 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £16.94
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +28.59% +2.70%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.03 £32.33
90th Percentile £44.13 £40.00 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -33.89% +71.43% +14.01%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Cheshire

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Cheshire

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Warrington - 2 £475 -
SOLID
North West

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript