SOLID Contracts in Yorkshire

SOLID Principles
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 103 106
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +41
Contract jobs citing SOLID 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.13% 0.065% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.078% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £535 - £420
25th Percentile £550 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £494
90th Percentile £665 - £520
England median daily rate £525 £523 £538
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.79% +2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,370 1,286 1,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.13% 83.56% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 792 1,188
10th Percentile £263 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 49 31
10th Percentile £16.58 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.39 £12.15 £17.11
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £34.04 £36.75 £44.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Yorkshire

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Yorkshire

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. 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
West Yorkshire -5 2 £600 +14.29% 7
SOLID
England

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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%) SAP MRS
1 1 (50.00%) SAP PM
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP PM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (50.00%) BAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Dagger
1 1 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Retrofit
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Android Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) EAM
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) MVVM
1 1 (50.00%) Parallel Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP