SOLID Contracts in the Thames Valley

SOLID Principles
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 136 179
Rank change year-on-year +20 +43 -27
Contract jobs citing SOLID 11 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.50% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.28% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £489 £528 £356
25th Percentile £515 £575 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.66% +22.06%
75th Percentile - £625 £566
90th Percentile £540 - £575
South East median daily rate £516 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -13.96% +14.29% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,896 2,521 3,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.41% 90.36% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,683 2,533
10th Percentile £280 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +4.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £518 £513
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.15% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 90 83
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.39 £10.77
25th Percentile £30.41 £24.63 £13.00
Median hourly rate £58.49 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.00 £30.45
90th Percentile £86.08 £75.03 £75.35
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £30.13
% change year-on-year +8.21% +75.90% +8.65%

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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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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 20 September 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 +11 9 £525 -1.41% 2
Buckinghamshire +23 1 £550 -8.33% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
SOLID
South East

SOLID
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 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Azure Service Bus
3 7 (63.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (63.64%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (63.64%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (63.64%) Azure Storage
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Embedded Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Embedded Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
2 5 (45.45%) Entity Framework
2 5 (45.45%) GraphQL
3 2 (18.18%) 802.1X
3 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) IoT
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
1 9 (81.82%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) OOP
2 7 (63.64%) Scrum
3 6 (54.55%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) Design Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Component Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Data Management
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) OO
5 3 (27.27%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) YAGNI
7 1 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (18.18%) Bicep
4 2 (18.18%) C
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Fortran
5 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Atmel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cadence