SOLID Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

SOLID Principles
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 81 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing SOLID 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.36% 0.092% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £461 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% - -
75th Percentile £512 £519 -
90th Percentile £556 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 962 876 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.51% 80.81% 87.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 580 659
10th Percentile £313 £360 £283
25th Percentile £443 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +2.90% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £659 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 59 87
10th Percentile £16.17 £25.45 £15.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.15
Median hourly rate £20.71 £65.85 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.55% +25.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £57.52 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.00% +9.56% +21.84%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

SOLID job vacancy trend in Hampshire

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SOLID

SOLID
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SOLID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SOLID

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 11 November 2025. 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
Fleet -9 1 £465 -9.27%
Southampton - 1 £475 - 2
SOLID
South East

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) MUnit
2 1 (25.00%) RAML
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce