SOLID Contract Job Trends in South London

SOLID Principles
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing SOLID 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.51% 1.87% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 2.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
London median daily rate £525 £585 £613
% change year-on-year -10.21% -4.49% +6.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 187 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.38% 87.38% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 124 166
10th Percentile £266 £229 £196
25th Percentile £419 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £715 £734 £650
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 18
10th Percentile - - £15.59
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.81
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £46.86
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -58.39% +6.23%
75th Percentile £40.54 £35.91 £55.00
90th Percentile £54.08 £61.41 £69.00
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.93% +0.76% -

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

SOLID job vacancy trend in South London

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SOLID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SOLID

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £500 -
SOLID
London

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA