SOLID Contracts in the South East

SOLID Principles
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 146 182 198
Rank change year-on-year +36 +16 +18
Contract jobs citing SOLID 13 23 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.49% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 24
10th Percentile £317 £463 £474
25th Percentile £463 £469 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £675
90th Percentile - £775 £684
England median daily rate £585 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +17.00% -9.09% +2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the South East 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
Surrey +26 11 £500 - 8
Thames Valley +32 2 £311 -37.90% 2
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £311 -48.25% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (30.77%) SaaS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) Bitbucket
2 7 (53.85%) GoogleTest
2 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 7 (53.85%) JIRA
2 7 (53.85%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (53.85%) TestRail
3 4 (30.77%) Cypress.io
3 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (15.38%) Moq
4 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
4 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Senior
2 7 (53.85%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Software Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) .NET Core
1 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
1 4 (30.77%) HTML
1 4 (30.77%) RESTful
1 4 (30.77%) YAML
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (15.38%) Bootstrap
2 2 (15.38%) Entity Framework
2 2 (15.38%) JSON
2 2 (15.38%) NHibernate
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Vue
2 2 (15.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Embedded Linux
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) Scrum
2 11 (84.62%) Design Patterns
2 11 (84.62%) OO
2 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) Test Automation
3 9 (69.23%) Computer Science
4 7 (53.85%) Clean Code
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (53.85%) Kanban
4 7 (53.85%) Multithreaded Programming
4 7 (53.85%) Multithreading
4 7 (53.85%) OOD
4 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (53.85%) Storyboarding
5 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 6 (46.15%) DevOps
6 4 (30.77%) Progressive Web App
6 4 (30.77%) User Experience
6 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C++
2 6 (46.15%) C#
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Degree
2 7 (53.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft