SOLID Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

SOLID Principles
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 72 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing SOLID 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.66% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £401 £688 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £695 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.86% - -
75th Percentile £450 £703 -
90th Percentile £465 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £411 £695 -
% change year-on-year -40.86% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 904 549 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.80% 95.64% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 367 194
10th Percentile £377 £302 £314
25th Percentile £441 £388 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -10.63%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £505 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +6.21% -8.65% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £14.66 £15.05
25th Percentile - £15.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% -10.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £20.44 £21.50
90th Percentile - £25.15 £21.80
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.30 £18.87 £12.83
% change year-on-year -3.02% +47.08% -37.41%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SOLID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

SOLID job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SOLID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SOLID

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Kong
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Flyway
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) git-flow
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) Liquibase
2 2 (28.57%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) JWT
1 4 (57.14%) OAuth
1 4 (57.14%) OAuth2
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) JDBC
3 2 (28.57%) Drools
3 2 (28.57%) HATEOAS
3 2 (28.57%) JPA
3 2 (28.57%) Loki
3 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
3 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Spring MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Security
3 2 (28.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
4 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (57.14%) Observability
4 4 (57.14%) Secrets Management
4 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 3 (42.86%) Refactoring
6 2 (28.57%) Batch Processing
6 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
6 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (28.57%) Inventory Management
6 2 (28.57%) Log Aggregation
6 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) PromQL
5 1 (14.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Consul
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Solace