SOLID Contracts in the West Midlands

SOLID Principles
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 142 163
Rank change year-on-year +34 +21 -51
Contract jobs citing SOLID 2 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.10% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £226 £429 £362
25th Percentile £266 £453 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £513 £426
Median % change year-on-year -34.15% +20.23% +6.56%
75th Percentile £416 £578 £488
90th Percentile £459 £606 £506
England median daily rate £500 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,614 2,145 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.84% 88.31% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,475 2,393
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £404 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +4.92% +17.66%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £575
90th Percentile £734 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 48 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.11 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.35 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.75 £49.38 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Birmingham +11 1 £200 -52.94% 5
Coventry +9 1 £475 -20.83%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft