SOLID Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SOLID Principles
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 276 341
Rank change year-on-year +8 +65 +20
Contract jobs citing SOLID 33 68 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.45% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.51% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 53 100
10th Percentile £366 £343 £375
25th Percentile £465 £438 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £480 £563
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £674 £575 £675
90th Percentile £740 £688 £775
UK median daily rate £585 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +17.00% -7.83% +2.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

SOLID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOLID trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing SOLID over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 (3.03%) CMS
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 12 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) GitHub
5 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (12.12%) Sentry
7 3 (9.09%) GCP
8 2 (6.06%) Azure API Management
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (6.06%) Serverless
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Redis
2 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) MySQL
4 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.03%) CockroachDB
6 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
6 1 (3.03%) Power BI
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) JUnit
3 4 (12.12%) CircleCI
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) Eclipse
4 3 (9.09%) Gradle
4 3 (9.09%) IntelliJ
4 3 (9.09%) Maven
4 3 (9.09%) Mockito
4 3 (9.09%) TestNG
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.06%) Postman
6 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.03%) GitLab
6 1 (3.03%) Hamcrest
6 1 (3.03%) Mocha
6 1 (3.03%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (3.03%) Spock
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (3.03%) tSQLt
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Electronics
5 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.09%) Marketing
5 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Aviation
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Senior
3 8 (24.24%) Lead
4 7 (21.21%) .NET Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Senior Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Lead Developer
6 5 (15.15%) Python Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Java Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Lead .NET Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Developer
8 3 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (9.09%) C# Developer
8 3 (9.09%) Digital Developer
8 3 (9.09%) Lead C# Developer
8 3 (9.09%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 3 (9.09%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Django Developer
9 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) .NET
2 12 (36.36%) RESTful
3 11 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 11 (33.33%) REST
4 7 (21.21%) Node.js
4 7 (21.21%) React
5 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
5 5 (15.15%) Django
5 5 (15.15%) Express.js
5 5 (15.15%) Hibernate
5 5 (15.15%) Kafka
5 5 (15.15%) Spring
5 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Framework
6 4 (12.12%) JWT
6 4 (12.12%) OAuth
7 3 (9.09%) Entity Framework
7 3 (9.09%) LINQ
7 3 (9.09%) OpenAPI
7 3 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
1 17 (51.52%) Design Patterns
1 17 (51.52%) DevOps
2 15 (45.45%) Agile
3 12 (36.36%) Pair Programming
3 12 (36.36%) TDD
4 9 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 9 (27.27%) Microservices
5 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) OO
6 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.21%) Scrum
7 6 (18.18%) Clean Code
7 6 (18.18%) Event-Driven
8 5 (15.15%) BDD
8 5 (15.15%) Continuous Deployment
8 5 (15.15%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) SQL
2 14 (42.42%) C#
3 10 (30.30%) Java
4 9 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 7 (21.21%) Python
6 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
7 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
9 1 (3.03%) Bash
9 1 (3.03%) Bicep
9 1 (3.03%) Groovy
9 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 1 (3.03%) Ruby
9 1 (3.03%) Scala
9 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) HL7
1 1 (3.03%) QA
1 1 (3.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Grafana
3 6 (18.18%) Terraform
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) Murex
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) RedGate
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Sybase