SOLID Contracts in the North West

SOLID Principles
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 142 117
Rank change year-on-year +17 -25 +16
Contract jobs citing SOLID 9 16 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.50% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.55% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 50
10th Percentile £448 £453 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £499
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +18.75%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £550
90th Percentile £500 £525 £620
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £90.00 £62.15
% change year-on-year - +44.81% -9.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,396 2,893 3,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 2,057 2,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 144 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.30 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.22 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Manchester +8 7 £475 - 13
Cheshire - 2 £475 - 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (44.44%) npm
1 4 (44.44%) Yarn
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Redis
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jasmine
1 4 (44.44%) Karma Test Runner
1 4 (44.44%) Mocha
1 4 (44.44%) webpack
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) Mercurial
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
3 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) React
2 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Core
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
3 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) Kafka
3 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) Play Framework
5 1 (11.11%) Playwright
5 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Algorithms
1 4 (44.44%) Data Structures
1 4 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) OO
3 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
3 5 (55.56%) OOP
4 4 (44.44%) Asynchronous Programming
4 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
4 4 (44.44%) Multithreading
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) TDD
6 2 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (22.22%) Microservices
6 2 (22.22%) OOD
6 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
6 2 (22.22%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker