SOLID Contracts in the UK excluding London

SOLID Principles
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 347 356
Rank change year-on-year +34 +9 -25
Contract jobs citing SOLID 26 52 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 38 68
10th Percentile £311 £400 £368
25th Percentile £439 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £675
90th Percentile £575 £670 £775
UK median daily rate £585 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +17.00% -9.09% +3.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +36 13 £500 - 63
Scotland +13 5 £505 +5.26% 3
South West +37 3 £655 +45.56% 20
North of England +16 3 £550 +15.79% 43
North West +8 3 £550 +15.79% 26
Wales +3 1 £167 -71.32% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
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UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) CockroachDB
1 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.69%) DocumentDB
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Git
2 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (26.92%) Bitbucket
3 7 (26.92%) GoogleTest
3 7 (26.92%) JIRA
3 7 (26.92%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (26.92%) TestRail
4 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
4 4 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (11.54%) webpack
6 2 (7.69%) Moq
6 2 (7.69%) Selenium
6 2 (7.69%) SpecFlow
6 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (3.85%) tSQLt
General
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.85%) Advertising
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
3 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 15 (57.69%) Senior
3 8 (30.77%) Senior Developer
4 7 (26.92%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Embedded Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Embedded Linux Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (11.54%) Python Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) .NET
1 8 (30.77%) AngularJS
1 8 (30.77%) CSS
1 8 (30.77%) HTML
1 8 (30.77%) React
1 8 (30.77%) RESTful
2 6 (23.08%) .NET Core
2 6 (23.08%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) YAML
4 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (11.54%) CSS3
4 3 (11.54%) Django
4 3 (11.54%) HTML5
4 3 (11.54%) Node.js
4 3 (11.54%) Redux
4 3 (11.54%) Vue
4 3 (11.54%) XML
5 2 (7.69%) AVFoundation
5 2 (7.69%) Bootstrap
5 2 (7.69%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 15 (57.69%) Scrum
3 14 (53.85%) Design Patterns
3 14 (53.85%) Test Automation
4 13 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (50.00%) OO
4 13 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (42.31%) Clean Code
7 9 (34.62%) Computer Science
7 9 (34.62%) TDD
8 8 (30.77%) DevOps
8 8 (30.77%) Kanban
9 7 (26.92%) Multithreaded Programming
9 7 (26.92%) Multithreading
9 7 (26.92%) OOD
9 7 (26.92%) Storyboarding
9 7 (26.92%) User Experience
10 6 (23.08%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) C#
2 7 (26.92%) C++
2 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 3 (11.54%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.69%) Swift
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Degree
2 7 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.85%) HL7
2 1 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.85%) RedGate
4 1 (3.85%) SAP