SOLID Contracts in Reading

SOLID Principles
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - -21
Contract jobs citing SOLID 8 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.69% - 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% - 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.38%
75th Percentile £500 - £538
90th Percentile £523 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,048 895 1,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.88% 89.41% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 599 796
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 23 8
10th Percentile £19.63 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +132.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £76.99 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Azure API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) npm
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) rollup.js
2 1 (12.50%) webpack
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (50.00%) Symfony
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 3 (37.50%) OAuth
2 3 (37.50%) OpenID
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 3 (37.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Enzyme
3 1 (12.50%) Jest
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Redux
3 1 (12.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Application Security
1 4 (50.00%) Break/Fix
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
1 4 (50.00%) OO
1 4 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) B2C
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) PHP
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
16 SOLID jobs in the South East