SOLID Contracts in England

SOLID Principles
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SOLID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOLID over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 480 433
Rank change year-on-year +83 -47 -23
Contract jobs citing SOLID 117 109 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.27% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.31% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 88 266
10th Percentile £435 £410 £413
25th Percentile £475 £467 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +2.34%
75th Percentile £625 £678 £600
90th Percentile £700 £800 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £62.05 - -
25th Percentile £62.13 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - -
75th Percentile £67.13 - -
90th Percentile £67.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -14.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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

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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 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in England

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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 October 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 +42 72 £585 -6.40% 30
South East +53 22 £500 -16.67% 19
North of England +35 14 £490 +0.51% 12
North West +27 9 £483 -1.03% 10
North East - 4 - - 1
East of England - 4 £500 - 5
Yorkshire +17 1 £525 +16.67% 1
Midlands +5 1 £275 -31.25% 10
West Midlands +3 1 £275 -31.25% 3
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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 (5.98%) Confluence
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.56%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.90%) Azure
2 28 (23.93%) AWS
3 18 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 10 (8.55%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (5.98%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.98%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (5.98%) Azure Storage
8 6 (5.13%) GitHub
8 6 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.13%) Sentry
8 6 (5.13%) Serverless
9 5 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (4.27%) CloudFront
9 5 (4.27%) npm
9 5 (4.27%) Route 53
9 5 (4.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) RS-485
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.53%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (14.53%) Redis
2 12 (10.26%) NoSQL
2 12 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.27%) DocumentDB
5 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.42%) Big Data
6 4 (3.42%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.56%) Power BI
7 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.71%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.71%) MySQL
8 2 (1.71%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.71%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 28 (23.93%) Git
3 19 (16.24%) JIRA
4 14 (11.97%) Bitbucket
5 13 (11.11%) JUnit
6 11 (9.40%) GoogleTest
7 10 (8.55%) Selenium
7 10 (8.55%) Serenity BDD
8 9 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (7.69%) Rational DOORS
8 9 (7.69%) TestRail
9 7 (5.98%) GitLab
9 7 (5.98%) Gradle
9 7 (5.98%) Maven
9 7 (5.98%) SonarQube
10 6 (5.13%) CircleCI
10 6 (5.13%) fastlane
10 6 (5.13%) Postman
11 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
11 5 (4.27%) REST Assured
General
1 31 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.11%) Finance
3 11 (9.40%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Banking
5 7 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.13%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Back Office
7 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.71%) Front Office
8 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (58.12%) Developer
2 33 (28.21%) Senior
3 21 (17.95%) Java Developer
4 18 (15.38%) .NET Developer
5 16 (13.68%) Software Engineer
6 13 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) Senior Developer
8 10 (8.55%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 10 (8.55%) Embedded Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Embedded Linux Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 9 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 8 (6.84%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (39.32%) .NET
2 25 (21.37%) React
3 23 (19.66%) Kafka
4 22 (18.80%) Spring Boot
5 17 (14.53%) .NET Framework
6 16 (13.68%) .NET Core
6 16 (13.68%) GraphQL
7 13 (11.11%) Spring
7 13 (11.11%) XML
8 12 (10.26%) CSS
9 11 (9.40%) Entity Framework
9 11 (9.40%) HTML
9 11 (9.40%) RESTful
10 10 (8.55%) JMS
11 9 (7.69%) AngularJS
12 8 (6.84%) ASP.NET
12 8 (6.84%) LINQ
12 8 (6.84%) Node.js
12 8 (6.84%) REST
13 7 (5.98%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.84%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.27%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.27%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.27%) Derivative
2 5 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.42%) IoT
4 3 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.56%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.71%) iPad
5 2 (1.71%) iPhone
5 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.71%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.68%) Linux
2 9 (7.69%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (4.27%) Windows
4 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.44%) Agile
2 50 (42.74%) CI/CD
2 50 (42.74%) Design Patterns
3 43 (36.75%) Scrum
4 41 (35.04%) Software Engineering
5 39 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 36 (30.77%) Microservices
6 36 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (29.91%) DevOps
8 33 (28.21%) Test Automation
9 30 (25.64%) OO
10 28 (23.93%) TDD
11 25 (21.37%) Multithreading
12 24 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (19.66%) Unit Testing
14 22 (18.80%) Computer Science
15 21 (17.95%) OOP
16 17 (14.53%) BDD
16 17 (14.53%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 16 (13.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.59%) C#
2 47 (40.17%) SQL
3 37 (31.62%) Java
4 27 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.82%) C++
5 15 (12.82%) Python
6 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.98%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (5.13%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.27%) Bash
10 3 (2.56%) Swift
10 3 (2.56%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.71%) Bicep
11 2 (1.71%) PHP
11 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.71%) PyPy
12 1 (0.85%) Fortran
12 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (27.35%) SC Cleared
3 21 (17.95%) Degree
4 19 (16.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.97%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) HL7
2 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (18.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (18.80%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.13%) Grafana
3 4 (3.42%) Terraform
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.71%) MIIS
5 1 (0.85%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 17 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.11%) Google
3 5 (4.27%) Splunk
4 4 (3.42%) Oracle
5 3 (2.56%) Murex
5 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.71%) Confluent
6 2 (1.71%) Databricks
6 2 (1.71%) SAP
6 2 (1.71%) Solace
6 2 (1.71%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.85%) Cadence
7 1 (0.85%) RedGate