SOLID Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

SOLID Principles
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 35 47
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing SOLID 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.19% 0.99% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 1.05% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £302 £373
25th Percentile - £305 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £311 £494
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -37.11% -24.04%
75th Percentile - £316 £625
90th Percentile - £319 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £306 £321 £494
% change year-on-year -4.67% -34.99% -24.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 409 191 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.65% 94.09% 86.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 142 302
10th Percentile £287 £277 £279
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -1.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £660
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 29
10th Percentile £15.80 £13.10 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £18.70 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -19.45% +60.10%
75th Percentile £29.61 £19.60 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £20.14 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £24.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -23.67% - +50.00%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

SOLID job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SOLID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SOLID

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle