SOLID Contracts in Scotland

SOLID Principles
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 124 157
Rank change year-on-year +13 +33 0
Contract jobs citing SOLID 5 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.25% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £501 - £567
25th Percentile £501 £400 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £480 £750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -36.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £512 £600 £775
90th Percentile £514 £604 £781
UK median daily rate £585 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +17.00% -9.09% +3.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Scotland

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Scotland

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow +5 5 £505 +26.31% 2
SOLID
UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (40.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Django Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) CSS3
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) Redux
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Django
3 2 (40.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Service Design
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle