SOLID Contracts in Manchester

SOLID Principles
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 100 94
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing SOLID 7 16 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.46% 0.85% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.92% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 43
10th Percentile £440 £453 £401
25th Percentile £463 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -6.86% +21.43%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £581
90th Percentile - £525 £620
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £510
% change year-on-year - -6.86% +21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,738 2,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.81% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,273 1,820
10th Percentile £313 £316 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 51
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (57.14%) npm
1 4 (57.14%) Yarn
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jasmine
1 4 (57.14%) Karma Test Runner
1 4 (57.14%) Mocha
1 4 (57.14%) webpack
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) Mercurial
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) AngularJS
2 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Node.js
5 1 (14.29%) Play Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Playwright
5 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Algorithms
1 4 (57.14%) Data Structures
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) OOP
3 4 (57.14%) Asynchronous Programming
3 4 (57.14%) Memory Management
3 4 (57.14%) Multithreading
3 4 (57.14%) OO
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) Investment Management
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
5 1 (14.29%) SOA
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker