SOLID Contracts in the North of England

SOLID Principles
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 165 186
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 +17
Contract jobs citing SOLID 9 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 11
10th Percentile £363 £455 £413
25th Percentile £396 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £675 £495 £519
90th Percentile £679 £565 £556
England median daily rate £550 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.10% +2.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,487 3,641 4,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.73% 84.01% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,225 2,208 3,223
10th Percentile £268 £300 £298
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £551 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £670 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 277 207
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.47 £13.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.60 £22.88 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -17.42% +37.61%
75th Percentile £43.39 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.19 £68.80 £55.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
North West -13 5 £410 -13.68% 21
Yorkshire -9 2 £600 +14.29% 15
North East - 2 £550 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP MRS
1 1 (11.11%) SAP PM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Datadog
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) X.509
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
2 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
3 1 (11.11%) Gradle
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) ABAP Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Android Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) SAP PM Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
3 2 (22.22%) Playwright
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 1 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (11.11%) BAPI
4 1 (11.11%) Dagger
4 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (11.11%) Next.js
4 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) Retrofit
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (11.11%) Swagger
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
4 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) BDD
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
4 3 (33.33%) API Development
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) OO
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) OOP
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
5 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) ABAP
3 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Swift
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SAP