SOLID Contracts in the City of London

SOLID Principles
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 161 161
Rank change year-on-year +44 0 -18
Contract jobs citing SOLID 7 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.28% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.30% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 28
10th Percentile £455 £505 -
25th Percentile £481 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% - -9.87%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £678
90th Percentile £673 £770 £736
Central London median daily rate £483 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -8.96% +0.95% -9.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,968 3,305 3,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.57% 91.53% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 2,228 2,947
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Android Studio
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Moq
2 1 (14.29%) MSTest
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Android Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Android Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) HTML
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) Vue
3 2 (28.57%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (14.29%) JPA
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
4 1 (14.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 4 (57.14%) MVVM
2 4 (57.14%) Web Development
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) OO
3 3 (42.86%) OOP
3 3 (42.86%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce