SOLID Contracts in Berkshire

SOLID Principles
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 111 123
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -25
Contract jobs citing SOLID 7 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.36% 0.17% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.19% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +15.38%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £538
90th Percentile £540 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,602 2,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.68% 89.80% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,001 1,357
10th Percentile £235 £340 £268
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -1.18%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Reading - 5 £475 -
Maidenhead -6 2 - -
SOLID
South East

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
1 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
1 4 (57.14%) Symfony
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) 802.1X
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) OpenID
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 2 (28.57%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (28.57%) YAGNI
5 1 (14.29%) Application Security
5 1 (14.29%) B2C
5 1 (14.29%) Break/Fix
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) C
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atmel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft