SOLID Contracts in Scotland

SOLID Principles
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 160 160
Rank change year-on-year +36 0 -5
Contract jobs citing SOLID 5 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.21% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.23% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile - £567 -
25th Percentile £400 £688 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £775 £486
90th Percentile £604 £781 £525
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.92% +5.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,942 2,610 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.68% 92.55% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,872 2,340
10th Percentile £228 £260 £244
25th Percentile £399 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 3 May 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
Glasgow +7 3 £400 -14.44% 2
Edinburgh +33 2 £569 -24.17% 4
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%) DB2
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
2 2 (40.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Android Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (40.00%) Dagger
1 2 (40.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (40.00%) Retrofit
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Android Development
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) MVVM
3 2 (40.00%) OOP
3 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Greenplum