SOLID Contracts with Work from Home Options

SOLID Principles
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 343 355
Rank change year-on-year +61 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing SOLID 67 123 285
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.49% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.54% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 91 215
10th Percentile £317 £375 £401
25th Percentile £431 £435 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £575 £668 £619
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.65
25th Percentile - - £61.61
Median hourly rate - - £62.15
75th Percentile - - £62.86
90th Percentile - - £64.15
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 £62.15
% change year-on-year - +44.81% +5.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

SOLID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOLID trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOLID
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID.

SOLID daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOLID over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

SOLID daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOLID
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID.

SOLID hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (5.97%) CMS
2 3 (4.48%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 40 (59.70%) Azure
2 18 (26.87%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.42%) Azure Logic Apps
3 11 (16.42%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (11.94%) AWS
4 8 (11.94%) Azure API Management
4 8 (11.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (11.94%) Serverless
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Functions
6 5 (7.46%) PaaS
7 4 (5.97%) NuGet
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.99%) Figma
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.49%) GCP
10 1 (1.49%) IaaS
10 1 (1.49%) npm
10 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) NoSQL
2 12 (17.91%) SQL Server
3 9 (13.43%) Relational Database
4 8 (11.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (7.46%) MySQL
6 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.99%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.99%) Redis
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.49%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.49%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Git
2 5 (7.46%) Postman
2 5 (7.46%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.99%) JIRA
4 2 (2.99%) Moq
4 2 (2.99%) webpack
5 1 (1.49%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.49%) JMeter
5 1 (1.49%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.49%) MSTest
5 1 (1.49%) NUnit
5 1 (1.49%) Selenium
5 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (17.91%) Finance
2 9 (13.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Law
5 4 (5.97%) Tech for Good
6 3 (4.48%) Front Office
6 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Electronics
7 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.99%) Marketing
7 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (74.63%) Developer
2 12 (17.91%) .NET Developer
2 12 (17.91%) Azure Developer
2 12 (17.91%) C# Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Software Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Android Developer
5 5 (7.46%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Mobile Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Angular Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Architect
6 4 (5.97%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (5.97%) iOS Android Developer
6 4 (5.97%) iOS Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Lead
6 4 (5.97%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (65.67%) .NET
2 20 (29.85%) REST
3 18 (26.87%) CSS
3 18 (26.87%) HTML
4 15 (22.39%) ASP.NET
5 14 (20.90%) .NET Core
6 13 (19.40%) Node.js
6 13 (19.40%) Vue
7 12 (17.91%) AngularJS
7 12 (17.91%) Web Services
8 11 (16.42%) .NET Framework
8 11 (16.42%) React
9 8 (11.94%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (11.94%) SOAP
10 7 (10.45%) Entity Framework
11 6 (8.96%) Kafka
11 6 (8.96%) XML
12 5 (7.46%) JSON
12 5 (7.46%) Spring
12 5 (7.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) W3C
5 1 (1.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Android
2 5 (7.46%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.99%) Linux
3 2 (2.99%) Windows
4 1 (1.49%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) OO
2 25 (37.31%) TDD
3 22 (32.84%) Agile
4 21 (31.34%) Design Patterns
5 20 (29.85%) DevOps
6 18 (26.87%) Clean Code
6 18 (26.87%) Microservices
7 15 (22.39%) MVC
7 15 (22.39%) Web Development
8 14 (20.90%) Full Stack Development
9 13 (19.40%) CI/CD
9 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
10 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (16.42%) MVVM
11 11 (16.42%) OOP
11 11 (16.42%) Unit Testing
12 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
13 8 (11.94%) Event-Driven
13 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (11.94%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 45 (67.16%) C#
2 29 (43.28%) JavaScript
3 24 (35.82%) SQL
4 11 (16.42%) Java
5 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.45%) Python
6 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.46%) PHP
8 4 (5.97%) Bicep
9 3 (4.48%) Bash
10 2 (2.99%) C++
10 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.99%) Perl
11 1 (1.49%) Scala
11 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) Degree
2 5 (7.46%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Terraform
2 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.48%) Oracle
3 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.99%) SAP
3 2 (2.99%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.49%) Adobe