SOLID Contract Job Trends in the South West

SOLID Principles
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring SOLID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 136 150
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing SOLID 14 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.71% 0.040% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.047% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £360 - £671
25th Percentile £379 - £683
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £735
Median % change year-on-year - - +54.74%
75th Percentile £513 - £800
90th Percentile £550 - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,781 2,110 2,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.22% 83.93% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,206 1,887
10th Percentile £213 £304 £313
25th Percentile £369 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £728 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 202 273
10th Percentile £15.20 £22.50 £21.64
25th Percentile £18.87 £46.69 £47.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £72.50 £70.66
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.40 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

SOLID job vacancy trend in the South West

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SOLID

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the South West over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the South West

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Bristol +13 8 £390 -
Dorset - 3 - - 1
Wiltshire - 3 £550 -
SOLID
England

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (14.29%) Alfresco
1 2 (14.29%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) CockroachDB
2 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) NUnit
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (21.43%) Electronics
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
1 3 (21.43%) Marketing
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Senior
3 6 (42.86%) Senior Developer
4 5 (35.71%) Lead
5 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Developer
5 3 (21.43%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Lead .NET Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Lead C# Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Lead Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Django Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Python/Django Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) React
2 6 (42.86%) .NET
3 5 (35.71%) ARM Templates
3 5 (35.71%) Node.js
3 5 (35.71%) REST
4 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
5 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
5 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
5 3 (21.43%) HTML
5 3 (21.43%) Spring
5 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
5 3 (21.43%) XML
6 2 (14.29%) Django
6 2 (14.29%) JPA
6 2 (14.29%) Kafka
6 2 (14.29%) Keycloak
6 2 (14.29%) RESTful
7 1 (7.14%) .NET Compact Framework
7 1 (7.14%) OAuth
7 1 (7.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) TDD
2 11 (78.57%) Microservices
3 10 (71.43%) BDD
4 8 (57.14%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) OO
5 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
6 5 (35.71%) OOP
6 5 (35.71%) Pair Programming
7 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
7 4 (28.57%) DevOps
7 4 (28.57%) OWASP
8 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (21.43%) Programme Management
8 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
8 3 (21.43%) Service-Level Objective
8 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 4 (28.57%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) Python
6 1 (7.14%) C
6 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Xamarin