SOLID Contracts in London

SOLID Principles
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SOLID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SOLID over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 402 420
Rank change year-on-year +59 +18 -75
Contract jobs citing SOLID 58 77 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.31% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.34% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 50 154
10th Percentile £400 £458 £450
25th Percentile £463 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £631 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +8.84% +10.48%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £668
90th Percentile £725 £839 £725
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £64.50 £90.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.33% +38.46% +2.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

SOLID is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,493 22,950 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 90.92% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,091 16,613 26,332
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 266 397
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +5.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID in London.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Central London +36 8 £516 -20.70% 4
West London +20 1 - -
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England

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (67.24%) Azure
2 17 (29.31%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.97%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (17.24%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (10.34%) AWS
5 6 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.34%) NuGet
5 6 (10.34%) PaaS
5 6 (10.34%) Serverless
6 5 (8.62%) Azure API Management
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Functions
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (5.17%) SaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.72%) Figma
9 1 (1.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) NoSQL
2 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
3 8 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (13.79%) Relational Database
4 6 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.72%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.72%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.72%) MySQL
6 1 (1.72%) RavenDB
6 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (31.03%) Git
2 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.34%) JIRA
3 5 (8.62%) JUnit
4 4 (6.90%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.17%) Moq
5 3 (5.17%) NUnit
5 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.45%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.45%) GitLab
6 2 (3.45%) Postman
6 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.72%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.72%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.72%) kappa
7 1 (1.72%) MSTest
7 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.72%) Serilog
7 1 (1.72%) Spock
General
1 14 (24.14%) Finance
2 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Law
3 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.62%) Front Office
5 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Electronics
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (67.24%) Developer
2 12 (20.69%) C# Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Full Stack Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.79%) Azure Developer
5 7 (12.07%) .NET Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Architect
7 5 (8.62%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior
7 5 (8.62%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Angular Developer
8 4 (6.90%) C# Software Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Lead
9 3 (5.17%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (72.41%) .NET
2 22 (37.93%) REST
3 13 (22.41%) .NET Core
4 12 (20.69%) ASP.NET
4 12 (20.69%) HTML
4 12 (20.69%) Web Services
5 10 (17.24%) React
5 10 (17.24%) Spring
5 10 (17.24%) Spring Boot
6 9 (15.52%) AngularJS
6 9 (15.52%) CSS
6 9 (15.52%) SOAP
7 8 (13.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (13.79%) Node.js
7 8 (13.79%) Vue
7 8 (13.79%) YAML
8 6 (10.34%) XML
9 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
9 5 (8.62%) Hibernate
9 5 (8.62%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Wiki
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) TDD
2 22 (37.93%) DevOps
3 20 (34.48%) OO
4 19 (32.76%) Agile
4 19 (32.76%) Design Patterns
4 19 (32.76%) Microservices
5 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 18 (31.03%) Unit Testing
6 17 (29.31%) Software Engineering
7 12 (20.69%) Scrum
8 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
8 11 (18.97%) OOP
9 10 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (17.24%) High Availability
9 10 (17.24%) MVC
9 10 (17.24%) Web Development
10 9 (15.52%) API Management
10 9 (15.52%) MVVM
10 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
11 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 42 (72.41%) C#
2 21 (36.21%) SQL
3 16 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 13 (22.41%) Java
5 11 (18.97%) PowerShell
6 9 (15.52%) Python
7 6 (10.34%) Bicep
8 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.72%) F#
9 1 (1.72%) Groovy
9 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Terraform
2 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 2 (3.45%) Istio
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Databricks
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.72%) Xamarin