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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 368 349
Rank change year-on-year +51 -19 +9
Contract jobs citing SOLID 52 45 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.22% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.24% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 37 117
10th Percentile £215 £371 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £585
90th Percentile £536 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62.05 - -
25th Percentile £62.13 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.13 - -
90th Percentile £67.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -14.00% - -

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 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

SOLID
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

SOLID
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 31 October 2024.

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

SOLID
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 31 October 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
South East +53 22 £500 -16.67% 19
North of England +35 14 £490 +0.51% 12
North West +27 9 £483 -1.03% 10
Scotland +16 6 £445 -12.75% 6
Wales +8 5 £161 -49.00%
East of England - 4 £500 - 5
North East - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire +17 1 £525 +16.67% 1
Midlands +5 1 £275 -31.25% 10
West Midlands +3 1 £275 -31.25% 3
SOLID
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (3.85%) JCAPS
2 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.85%) Azure
2 8 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
3 7 (13.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (13.46%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (13.46%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (13.46%) Azure Storage
4 5 (9.62%) npm
4 5 (9.62%) Yarn
5 4 (7.69%) AWS
6 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.92%) Bitrise
8 1 (1.92%) PaaS
8 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (7.69%) Big Data
2 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 3 (5.77%) Redis
3 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.85%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.92%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) Git
1 18 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 11 (21.15%) Bitbucket
2 11 (21.15%) GoogleTest
2 11 (21.15%) JIRA
2 11 (21.15%) webpack
3 9 (17.31%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (17.31%) TestRail
4 5 (9.62%) Jasmine
4 5 (9.62%) Karma Test Runner
4 5 (9.62%) Mocha
5 4 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (5.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (5.77%) tSQLt
7 2 (3.85%) GitLab
8 1 (1.92%) Postman
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (55.77%) Developer
2 17 (32.69%) Senior
3 15 (28.85%) Software Engineer
4 13 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (19.23%) .NET Developer
5 10 (19.23%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 10 (19.23%) Embedded Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) C++ Software Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (9.62%) Applications Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (42.31%) .NET
2 10 (19.23%) RESTful
3 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
3 9 (17.31%) React
3 9 (17.31%) Web Services
4 8 (15.38%) .NET Core
5 6 (11.54%) CSS
5 6 (11.54%) CSS3
5 6 (11.54%) Entity Framework
5 6 (11.54%) HTML
5 6 (11.54%) HTML5
5 6 (11.54%) Node.js
5 6 (11.54%) Redux
6 5 (9.62%) AngularJS
6 5 (9.62%) FHIR
6 5 (9.62%) GraphQL
6 5 (9.62%) XML
7 4 (7.69%) Kafka
8 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (3.85%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.62%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.62%) Clustering
2 5 (9.62%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.62%) Replication
3 4 (7.69%) IoT
4 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.85%) iPad
5 2 (3.85%) iPhone
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) FMCG
6 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.77%) Unix
4 1 (1.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) Design Patterns
2 30 (57.69%) Agile
2 30 (57.69%) Scrum
3 24 (46.15%) OO
4 22 (42.31%) Clean Code
5 21 (40.38%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (38.46%) Software Engineering
7 18 (34.62%) Multithreading
8 17 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (32.69%) Test Automation
9 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
9 16 (30.77%) OOP
9 16 (30.77%) Unit Testing
10 15 (28.85%) Microservices
11 13 (25.00%) DevOps
12 12 (23.08%) OOD
13 11 (21.15%) Computer Science
13 11 (21.15%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (21.15%) Kanban
13 11 (21.15%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) SQL
2 20 (38.46%) C#
3 15 (28.85%) C++
4 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
5 8 (15.38%) Java
6 7 (13.46%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (13.46%) T-SQL
7 6 (11.54%) TypeScript
8 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
9 3 (5.77%) Swift
10 2 (3.85%) Bash
10 2 (3.85%) Bicep
10 2 (3.85%) PHP
10 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
10 2 (3.85%) Python
10 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.92%) Fortran
11 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Degree
2 11 (21.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
4 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) HL7
2 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) HAProxy
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Google
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) RedGate
4 2 (3.85%) Fiorano
4 2 (3.85%) IBM
4 2 (3.85%) WSO2
5 1 (1.92%) Cadence
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks