SOLID Contracts in the South East

SOLID Principles
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 168 186 212
Rank change year-on-year +18 +26 -32
Contract jobs citing SOLID 21 25 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.44% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.50% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 25
10th Percentile £463 £480 £414
25th Percentile £475 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £538
90th Percentile £775 £695 £653
England median daily rate £500 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.92% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.15
England median hourly rate - £90.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +38.46% +2.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,597 5,024 6,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.24% 89.08% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,677 3,483 4,695
10th Percentile £250 £248 £230
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £596
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.90
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the South East over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the South East 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
Thames Valley +2 12 £500 -16.67% 11
Berkshire -2 10 £488 +8.33%
West Sussex - 7 £750 - 1
Buckinghamshire +12 2 £600 -4.00% 2
Surrey +12 1 £500 -27.27% 6
Hampshire -4 1 - - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.76%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Azure API Management
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Functions
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (23.81%) Serverless
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (14.29%) PaaS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
6 1 (4.76%) Figma
6 1 (4.76%) npm
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.76%) Couchbase
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
5 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
1 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio
2 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 1 (4.76%) rollup.js
3 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Developer
5 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
5 2 (9.52%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Integration Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Embedded Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (19.05%) Spring
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
2 4 (19.05%) Symfony
3 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 3 (14.29%) JSON
3 3 (14.29%) OAuth
3 3 (14.29%) OpenID
3 3 (14.29%) REST
3 3 (14.29%) SOAP
3 3 (14.29%) XML
4 2 (9.52%) 802.1X
4 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
4 2 (9.52%) OpenAPI
4 2 (9.52%) Swagger
5 1 (4.76%) Jest
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) IoT
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.76%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) TDD
2 12 (57.14%) OO
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Microservices
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) Clean Code
5 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Break/Fix
6 4 (19.05%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Kanban
6 4 (19.05%) OOD
6 4 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (19.05%) Security Testing
6 4 (19.05%) SOA
6 4 (19.05%) UML
6 4 (19.05%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 5 (23.81%) PHP
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) Perl
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.52%) C
5 2 (9.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Atmel
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe