SOLID Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

SOLID Principles
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 74 65
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing SOLID 2 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.19% 1.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 1.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £429 £436 -
25th Percentile £443 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -3.65% -7.69%
75th Percentile £498 £493 -
90th Percentile £505 £497 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +2.70% -15.91% +3.77%

All Process & 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 890 731 625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.84% 91.49% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 472 444
10th Percentile £285 £300 £260
25th Percentile £358 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £541
90th Percentile £675 £600 £652
Scotland median daily rate £450 £466 £450
% change year-on-year -3.43% +3.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 23
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.82 £15.13
25th Percentile £14.63 £16.84 £19.05
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.59 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +78.66% -52.15% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.68 £42.49
90th Percentile £77.50 £32.47 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.12 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -14.40% +2.09% +6.90%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

SOLID job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SOLID

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) webpack
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker