SOLID Contracts in Glasgow

SOLID Principles
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 79 83
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing SOLID 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.63% 0.34% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.37% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £501 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £400 £468
Median % change year-on-year +26.31% -14.44% +3.89%
75th Percentile £512 £440 £476
90th Percentile £514 £464 -
Scotland median daily rate £505 £480 £750
% change year-on-year +5.26% -36.00% +66.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (40.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Django Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) CSS3
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) Redux
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Django
3 2 (40.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Service Design
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle