SOLID Contracts in Leeds

SOLID Principles
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 63 84
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing SOLID 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.17% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.17% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile £525 £513 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% +50.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £516
90th Percentile - - £529
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 529 599 1,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 90.12% 84.37% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 394 698
10th Percentile £302 £350 £353
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £633 £650 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £13.87 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.09% -27.00% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £25.00 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £36.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +59.63% -25.03% -7.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Dagger
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) Retrofit
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree