SOLID Contracts in the Thames Valley

SOLID Principles
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 127 149
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -25
Contract jobs citing SOLID 13 21 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.71% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.78% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 14
10th Percentile - £458 -
25th Percentile £463 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £538
90th Percentile £625 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Berkshire +4 10 £488 +8.33%
Buckinghamshire +11 3 £600 -7.69% 3
SOLID
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Azure API Management
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Functions
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (23.08%) PaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Figma
5 1 (7.69%) npm
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
2 2 (15.38%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) rollup.js
3 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Developer
3 3 (23.08%) C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Developer
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Embedded Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Embedded Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
2 4 (30.77%) Symfony
3 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
3 3 (23.08%) JSON
3 3 (23.08%) OAuth
3 3 (23.08%) OpenID
3 3 (23.08%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) XML
4 2 (15.38%) 802.1X
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
4 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
4 2 (15.38%) React
4 2 (15.38%) Swagger
5 1 (7.69%) Jest
5 1 (7.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) IoT
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) TDD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) OO
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Application Security
5 4 (30.77%) Break/Fix
5 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) Security Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) B2C
6 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
7 2 (15.38%) API Management
7 2 (15.38%) Creative Thinking
7 2 (15.38%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 2 (15.38%) Embedded Software Development
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) PHP
4 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (15.38%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Atmel
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle