SOLID Contracts in the North of England

SOLID Principles
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 173 183 166
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 +12
Contract jobs citing SOLID 11 31 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.55% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.61% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 66
10th Percentile £451 £413 £394
25th Percentile £463 £463 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +34.19%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £550
90th Percentile £511 £550 £620
England median daily rate £500 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.92% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate - £90.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +38.46% +2.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,945 5,094 6,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.39% 90.48% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 3,502 4,614
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 264
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.47
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £37.07
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North 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
North West +8 9 £475 - 19
Yorkshire +8 2 £525 - 18
SOLID
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 4 (36.36%) npm
1 4 (36.36%) Yarn
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Redis
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jasmine
1 4 (36.36%) Karma Test Runner
1 4 (36.36%) Mocha
1 4 (36.36%) webpack
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Mercurial
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
3 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) C# Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Developer
4 2 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 1 (9.09%) iOS Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
1 6 (54.55%) React
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Core
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
2 5 (45.45%) Web Services
3 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
3 4 (36.36%) Kafka
3 4 (36.36%) RESTful
4 2 (18.18%) Entity Framework
4 2 (18.18%) Node.js
4 2 (18.18%) REST
5 1 (9.09%) iOS SDK
5 1 (9.09%) Play Framework
5 1 (9.09%) Playwright
5 1 (9.09%) SOAP
5 1 (9.09%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
1 4 (36.36%) Data Structures
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Design Patterns
2 6 (54.55%) OO
2 6 (54.55%) OOP
3 4 (36.36%) Asynchronous Programming
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Memory Management
3 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (9.09%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker