SOLID Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

SOLID Principles
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing SOLID 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.73% - 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £367 - £466
25th Percentile £391 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.56%
75th Percentile £678 - £494
90th Percentile £684 - -
North West median daily rate £575 £490 £488
% change year-on-year +17.35% +0.51% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 617 464 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.20% 85.93% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 282 204
10th Percentile £300 £341 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -2.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £612
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 30
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.90
25th Percentile £14.16 £21.83 £18.14
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +27.27% +52.48%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £47.50 £36.18
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +28.79% +41.63%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

SOLID job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SOLID

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in Cheshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 4 October 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
Wilmslow - 2 £663 -
Knutsford - 1 £350 -
Warrington - 1 £410 - 1
SOLID
North West

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Datadog
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (40.00%) Playwright
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) OAuth
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) Vue
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Informatics
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) OOP
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle