SOLID Contracts in the UK excluding London

SOLID Principles
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 350 329
Rank change year-on-year +3 -21 +28
Contract jobs citing SOLID 52 88 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.43% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 64 134
10th Percentile £425 £383 £386
25th Percentile £463 £461 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £514
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +2.68% +14.10%
75th Percentile £587 £675 £550
90th Percentile £735 £768 £620
UK median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.32% +1.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £62.05 - £62.72
25th Percentile £62.13 - £63.58
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £67.13 - -
90th Percentile £67.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £90.00 £63.58
% change year-on-year -28.33% +41.57% +5.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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

SOLID
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 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
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 May 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 +7 20 £550 -8.33% 17
North of England +5 11 £475 -7.32% 31
North West +12 9 £475 - 15
South West +9 8 £450 -34.14% 10
Scotland +30 5 £480 -23.20% 3
East of England +12 5 £475 +11.76% 8
Wales +21 2 £583 +45.63% 5
Yorkshire +6 2 £525 - 15
Midlands +14 1 £475 +40.74% 12
West Midlands +13 1 £475 +11.76% 6
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 3 (5.77%) CMS
1 3 (5.77%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 9 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.62%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) Azure Functions
3 5 (9.62%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (9.62%) Serverless
4 4 (7.69%) npm
4 4 (7.69%) Yarn
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.85%) Azure API Management
6 2 (3.85%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.92%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.62%) Redis
4 3 (5.77%) Couchbase
4 3 (5.77%) MySQL
4 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.85%) DB2
5 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.92%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Git
2 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.62%) webpack
4 4 (7.69%) Jasmine
4 4 (7.69%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (7.69%) Mocha
5 2 (3.85%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.85%) GitLab
5 2 (3.85%) Gradle
5 2 (3.85%) JIRA
5 2 (3.85%) JUnit
5 2 (3.85%) Postman
6 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.92%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.92%) JMeter
6 1 (1.92%) Selenium
6 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (15.38%) Finance
2 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.69%) Tech for Good
3 3 (5.77%) Law
3 3 (5.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Electronics
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (61.54%) Developer
2 9 (17.31%) Software Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 7 (13.46%) .NET Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Java Developer
5 6 (11.54%) C# Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Azure Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead
7 4 (7.69%) Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Senior
7 4 (7.69%) SQL Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.77%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Embedded Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Embedded Software Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Mobile Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Umbraco Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (42.31%) .NET
2 10 (19.23%) Kafka
3 8 (15.38%) React
3 8 (15.38%) RESTful
3 8 (15.38%) Spring
4 7 (13.46%) .NET Core
4 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
5 6 (11.54%) .NET Framework
5 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET
5 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot
6 5 (9.62%) CSS
6 5 (9.62%) HTML
6 5 (9.62%) Web Services
7 4 (7.69%) Node.js
7 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (7.69%) REST
7 4 (7.69%) Symfony
8 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (3.85%) Entity Framework
9 2 (3.85%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.85%) IoT
4 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.92%) FMCG
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 4 (7.69%) Android
2 4 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Agile
2 22 (42.31%) OO
2 22 (42.31%) TDD
3 21 (40.38%) Design Patterns
4 16 (30.77%) Clean Code
4 16 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 15 (28.85%) CI/CD
6 14 (26.92%) Microservices
7 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (25.00%) Scrum
8 10 (19.23%) DevOps
9 9 (17.31%) OOP
10 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (15.38%) OOD
11 7 (13.46%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (13.46%) Unit Testing
12 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
12 6 (11.54%) Domain-Driven Design
12 6 (11.54%) Multithreading
12 6 (11.54%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 28 (53.85%) C#
2 20 (38.46%) SQL
3 18 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 14 (26.92%) Java
5 8 (15.38%) C++
6 7 (13.46%) Python
7 6 (11.54%) PHP
8 5 (9.62%) Bash
8 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
9 4 (7.69%) Perl
10 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
10 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
11 2 (3.85%) C
11 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.92%) Fortran
12 1 (1.92%) Scala
12 1 (1.92%) Swift
12 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.77%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.92%) QA
1 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.85%) Atmel
2 2 (3.85%) Greenplum
3 1 (1.92%) Cadence
3 1 (1.92%) Databricks
3 1 (1.92%) Google
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle
3 1 (1.92%) SAP
3 1 (1.92%) Xamarin