SOLID Principles
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 511 453
Rank change year-on-year +51 -58 -23
Contract jobs citing SOLID 126 197 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.35% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.39% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 136 346
10th Percentile £400 £413 £409
25th Percentile £457 £470 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £611 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £60.65
25th Percentile - - £61.61
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £63.58
Median % change year-on-year - +41.57% +5.96%
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +51 107 £514 -6.59% 145
Work from Home +67 63 £475 -9.52% 95
London +78 58 £575 -2.13% 57
UK excluding London +11 50 £500 -4.76% 115
South East +11 19 £550 -8.33% 42
North of England +17 12 £475 -5.00% 36
North West +28 10 £475 - 17
South West +8 8 £450 -34.14% 6
Scotland +34 5 £480 -33.79% 3
Midlands +21 2 £338 - 12
West Midlands +18 2 £338 -20.59% 8
East of England +14 2 £450 +5.88% 13
Wales +13 2 £583 +45.63% 6
Yorkshire +7 2 £525 - 16

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (5.56%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) CMS
3 3 (2.38%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.59%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.79%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (53.17%) Azure
2 28 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (11.90%) Azure Logic Apps
4 13 (10.32%) Azure Service Bus
5 12 (9.52%) AWS
5 12 (9.52%) Serverless
6 10 (7.94%) Azure Functions
7 9 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (6.35%) PaaS
9 7 (5.56%) Azure API Management
10 6 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (4.76%) NuGet
11 5 (3.97%) npm
12 4 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (3.17%) Yarn
13 3 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (2.38%) Figma
13 3 (2.38%) GCP
13 3 (2.38%) GitHub
13 3 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.79%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 20 (15.87%) SQL Server
3 16 (12.70%) Relational Database
4 11 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (6.35%) MySQL
7 6 (4.76%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.76%) Redis
8 4 (3.17%) Couchbase
8 4 (3.17%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.17%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.59%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.59%) DB2
9 2 (1.59%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.59%) RavenDB
9 2 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.59%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (23.81%) Git
2 15 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.14%) JIRA
3 9 (7.14%) JUnit
4 6 (4.76%) Jasmine
4 6 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.76%) webpack
5 5 (3.97%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.17%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.17%) GitLab
6 4 (3.17%) Gradle
6 4 (3.17%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (3.17%) Mocha
6 4 (3.17%) NUnit
6 4 (3.17%) Postman
6 4 (3.17%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.38%) Moq
8 2 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.59%) Maven
8 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (19.05%) Finance
2 17 (13.49%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.94%) Law
5 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Front Office
7 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.59%) Banking
8 2 (1.59%) Electronics
8 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.59%) Marketing
8 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (69.84%) Developer
2 18 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 17 (13.49%) C# Developer
3 17 (13.49%) Java Developer
4 14 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 14 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 13 (10.32%) Azure Developer
6 12 (9.52%) Software Developer
7 11 (8.73%) Senior
8 9 (7.14%) Architect
9 8 (6.35%) Lead
9 8 (6.35%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Mobile Developer
11 6 (4.76%) Android Developer
11 6 (4.76%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.76%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.97%) C# Software Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (61.11%) .NET
2 34 (26.98%) REST
3 32 (25.40%) HTML
4 29 (23.02%) CSS
5 27 (21.43%) .NET Core
5 27 (21.43%) React
6 26 (20.63%) ASP.NET
7 25 (19.84%) Web Services
8 24 (19.05%) AngularJS
9 23 (18.25%) Vue
10 19 (15.08%) Spring
11 18 (14.29%) Node.js
12 17 (13.49%) Spring Boot
13 16 (12.70%) .NET Framework
14 15 (11.90%) Kafka
15 14 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (10.32%) SOAP
17 12 (9.52%) RESTful
18 9 (7.14%) XML
19 7 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.97%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.17%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.59%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.59%) IoT
6 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.59%) Wiki
7 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.79%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.79%) FMCG
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.94%) Android
2 7 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.97%) Linux
4 4 (3.17%) Windows
5 3 (2.38%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.27%) TDD
2 50 (39.68%) OO
3 48 (38.10%) Agile
4 46 (36.51%) Design Patterns
5 38 (30.16%) DevOps
6 35 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 35 (27.78%) Microservices
7 32 (25.40%) Software Engineering
8 29 (23.02%) OOP
8 29 (23.02%) Unit Testing
9 27 (21.43%) MVC
10 26 (20.63%) Scrum
11 24 (19.05%) Clean Code
11 24 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
11 24 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (19.05%) Web Development
12 20 (15.87%) MVVM
13 16 (12.70%) Test Automation
14 14 (11.11%) Mentoring
15 13 (10.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 81 (64.29%) C#
2 49 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 45 (35.71%) SQL
4 28 (22.22%) Java
5 18 (14.29%) Python
6 13 (10.32%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.73%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.76%) Bicep
8 6 (4.76%) PHP
9 5 (3.97%) Bash
10 4 (3.17%) C++
10 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.17%) Perl
11 3 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.59%) C
12 2 (1.59%) Swift
12 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.79%) F#
13 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.90%) Degree
2 12 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) QA
2 5 (3.97%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.97%) WCAG
3 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (10.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (12.70%) Terraform
2 12 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.38%) Grafana
4 2 (1.59%) Istio
5 1 (0.79%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) Oracle
2 4 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.38%) Google
3 3 (2.38%) Xamarin
4 2 (1.59%) Atmel
4 2 (1.59%) Databricks
4 2 (1.59%) Greenplum
4 2 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) TIBCO