SOLID Contracts in England

SOLID Principles
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 478 423
Rank change year-on-year +43 -55 -10
Contract jobs citing SOLID 108 161 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.34% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.38% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 107 296
10th Percentile £420 £413 £401
25th Percentile £463 £468 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £625
90th Percentile £728 £775 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.32% +1.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £62.05 - £62.72
25th Percentile £62.13 - £63.58
Median hourly rate £64.50 £90.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +38.46% +2.36%
75th Percentile £67.13 - -
90th Percentile £67.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £90.00 £63.58
% change year-on-year -28.33% +41.57% +5.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in England

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in England

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in England

SOLID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID in England.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +71 58 £563 -8.16% 36
South East +7 20 £550 -8.33% 17
North of England +5 11 £475 -7.32% 31
North West +12 9 £475 - 15
South West +9 8 £450 -34.14% 10
East of England +12 5 £475 +11.76% 8
Yorkshire +6 2 £525 - 15
Midlands +14 1 £475 +40.74% 12
West Midlands +13 1 £475 +11.76% 6
SOLID
UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (6.48%) Confluence
2 3 (2.78%) CMS
2 3 (2.78%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (55.56%) Azure
2 26 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (13.89%) Azure Logic Apps
4 12 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (10.19%) Serverless
6 10 (9.26%) AWS
6 10 (9.26%) Azure Functions
7 9 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.48%) Azure API Management
8 7 (6.48%) PaaS
9 6 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (5.56%) NuGet
10 4 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.70%) npm
10 4 (3.70%) Yarn
11 3 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (2.78%) GitHub
11 3 (2.78%) SaaS
12 2 (1.85%) GCP
12 2 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 16 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 11 (10.19%) Relational Database
4 10 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.63%) Redis
8 4 (3.70%) Couchbase
8 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.78%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.78%) MySQL
10 2 (1.85%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.85%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.85%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.93%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (25.00%) Git
2 11 (10.19%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.41%) JIRA
4 5 (4.63%) Jasmine
4 5 (4.63%) JUnit
4 5 (4.63%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.70%) Karma Test Runner
5 4 (3.70%) Mocha
5 4 (3.70%) Postman
5 4 (3.70%) Visual Studio
5 4 (3.70%) webpack
6 3 (2.78%) Moq
6 3 (2.78%) NUnit
7 2 (1.85%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.85%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.85%) GitLab
7 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.93%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.93%) kappa
8 1 (0.93%) Serilog
General
1 20 (18.52%) Finance
2 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.19%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.41%) Law
4 5 (4.63%) Front Office
5 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.85%) Electronics
7 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.85%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (64.81%) Developer
2 18 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 15 (13.89%) Java Developer
3 15 (13.89%) Software Engineer
4 13 (12.04%) .NET Developer
4 13 (12.04%) Azure Developer
4 13 (12.04%) Software Developer
5 10 (9.26%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (8.33%) Architect
6 9 (8.33%) Senior
7 7 (6.48%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Lead
8 6 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.56%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.63%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.63%) C# Software Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Angular Developer
10 4 (3.70%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (60.19%) .NET
2 29 (26.85%) REST
3 20 (18.52%) .NET Core
3 20 (18.52%) ASP.NET
3 20 (18.52%) HTML
3 20 (18.52%) Web Services
4 18 (16.67%) React
5 17 (15.74%) CSS
6 16 (14.81%) AngularJS
6 16 (14.81%) Spring
6 16 (14.81%) Spring Boot
7 15 (13.89%) Kafka
8 14 (12.96%) Node.js
9 12 (11.11%) Vue
10 11 (10.19%) SOAP
11 10 (9.26%) .NET Framework
11 10 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (9.26%) RESTful
12 7 (6.48%) XML
12 7 (6.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.63%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.85%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.85%) IoT
6 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Wiki
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.93%) FMCG
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 4 (3.70%) Android
2 4 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.70%) Windows
3 3 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (46.30%) TDD
2 44 (40.74%) OO
3 42 (38.89%) Agile
4 39 (36.11%) Design Patterns
5 33 (30.56%) DevOps
5 33 (30.56%) Software Engineering
6 31 (28.70%) CI/CD
7 30 (27.78%) Microservices
8 26 (24.07%) Unit Testing
9 22 (20.37%) Scrum
10 21 (19.44%) OOP
11 19 (17.59%) Clean Code
11 19 (17.59%) MVC
12 18 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (12.96%) Test Automation
14 14 (12.96%) Web Development
15 13 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
15 13 (12.04%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 72 (66.67%) C#
2 38 (35.19%) SQL
3 37 (34.26%) JavaScript
4 23 (21.30%) Java
5 17 (15.74%) Python
6 13 (12.04%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.41%) C++
8 7 (6.48%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.56%) Bicep
9 6 (5.56%) PHP
10 4 (3.70%) Bash
10 4 (3.70%) Perl
11 2 (1.85%) C
11 2 (1.85%) Swift
12 1 (0.93%) F#
12 1 (0.93%) Fortran
12 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.93%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.26%) Degree
4 6 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.85%) QA
2 2 (1.85%) WCAG
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (10.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.89%) Terraform
2 11 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.78%) Grafana
4 2 (1.85%) Istio
5 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.70%) Oracle
2 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.85%) Atmel
3 2 (1.85%) Databricks
3 2 (1.85%) Google
3 2 (1.85%) SAP
4 1 (0.93%) Cadence
4 1 (0.93%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.93%) Xamarin