SOLID Contracts in the East of England

SOLID Principles
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 122 143
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 -38
Contract jobs citing SOLID 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.11% 0.050% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.057% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.09% +14.18%
75th Percentile £475 £438 £617
90th Percentile - - £629
England median daily rate £500 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.92% +5.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,609 1,747 2,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.04% 88.01% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 1,013 1,293
10th Percentile £205 £205 £193
25th Percentile £325 £325 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £677 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 611 332 372
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -10.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £45.05
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Bedfordshire - 1 £450 -
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 4
SOLID
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) FMCG
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes