SOLID Contracts in the Thames Valley

SOLID Principles
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 123 135 154
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing SOLID 9 20 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.34% 0.69% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.76% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 13
10th Percentile - £454 £508
25th Percentile £463 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £553 £675 £538
90th Percentile £600 £685 -
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,269 2,615 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.82% 90.80% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,775 2,188
10th Percentile £213 £313 £237
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.59% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -3 7 £475 +5.56%
Buckinghamshire +15 1 £600 -7.69% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 6
SOLID
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Embedded Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Embedded Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (44.44%) Spring
1 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
1 4 (44.44%) Symfony
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) 802.1X
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth
4 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 1 (11.11%) OpenID
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (11.11%) Swagger
4 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 2 (22.22%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) YAGNI
5 1 (11.11%) B2C
5 1 (11.11%) Break/Fix
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 4 (44.44%) PHP
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Fortran
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Atmel
3 1 (11.11%) Cadence