SOLID Contracts in the UK excluding London

SOLID Principles
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 340 363 331
Rank change year-on-year +23 -32 +16
Contract jobs citing SOLID 51 81 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.35% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.39% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 60 138
10th Percentile £415 £375 £388
25th Percentile £463 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £550
90th Percentile £685 £775 £620
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.72
25th Percentile - - £63.58
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 £63.58
% change year-on-year - +41.57% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,089 20,700 27,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.28% 89.44% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,222 14,252 18,988
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,065 1,263 1,349
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.69 £61.53
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SOLID in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the UK excluding London 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
South East +18 21 £550 -8.33% 35
North of England +10 11 £475 -5.00% 42
North West +8 9 £475 - 19
South West +12 8 £450 -34.14% 3
Scotland +39 5 £480 -36.00% 7
West Midlands +22 2 £338 -20.59% 8
Wales +18 2 £583 +45.63% 5
Midlands +16 2 £338 - 14
East of England +14 2 £450 +5.88% 7
Yorkshire +8 2 £525 - 18
SOLID
UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (5.88%) CMS
1 3 (5.88%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (15.69%) Azure Functions
3 8 (15.69%) Serverless
4 7 (13.73%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (9.80%) AWS
5 5 (9.80%) Azure API Management
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (9.80%) npm
6 4 (7.84%) Yarn
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.88%) PaaS
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.92%) GitHub
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.96%) Figma
9 1 (1.96%) GCP
9 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.73%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
3 5 (9.80%) Redis
4 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.88%) Couchbase
5 3 (5.88%) MySQL
6 2 (3.92%) DB2
6 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.96%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.96%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.76%) webpack
4 4 (7.84%) Jasmine
4 4 (7.84%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (7.84%) Mocha
4 4 (7.84%) Visual Studio
5 3 (5.88%) Postman
6 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.92%) GitLab
6 2 (3.92%) Gradle
6 2 (3.92%) JUnit
7 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.96%) JMeter
7 1 (1.96%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.96%) Selenium
7 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.96%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (17.65%) Finance
2 4 (7.84%) Tech for Good
3 3 (5.88%) Law
3 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Electronics
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (13.73%) .NET Developer
2 7 (13.73%) C# Developer
2 7 (13.73%) Java Developer
2 7 (13.73%) Software Developer
2 7 (13.73%) Software Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Azure Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Lead
4 5 (9.80%) SQL Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Technical Architect
6 3 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Umbraco Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Embedded Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Integration Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Lead .NET Developer
7 2 (3.92%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (47.06%) .NET
2 10 (19.61%) Kafka
3 9 (17.65%) React
4 8 (15.69%) RESTful
4 8 (15.69%) Spring
5 7 (13.73%) AngularJS
6 6 (11.76%) .NET Core
6 6 (11.76%) .NET Framework
6 6 (11.76%) CSS
6 6 (11.76%) REST
6 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET
7 5 (9.80%) HTML
7 5 (9.80%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (9.80%) Web Services
8 4 (7.84%) Node.js
8 4 (7.84%) SOAP
8 4 (7.84%) Symfony
9 3 (5.88%) JSON
9 3 (5.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) IoT
4 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.96%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.96%) FMCG
5 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Android
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
1 4 (7.84%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) Agile
1 23 (45.10%) OO
2 22 (43.14%) TDD
3 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
3 16 (31.37%) Design Patterns
4 15 (29.41%) Clean Code
5 14 (27.45%) DevOps
5 14 (27.45%) Microservices
6 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (25.49%) Scrum
7 12 (23.53%) Software Engineering
8 9 (17.65%) OOP
9 7 (13.73%) Full Stack Development
9 7 (13.73%) OOD
10 6 (11.76%) Domain-Driven Design
10 6 (11.76%) MVC
10 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 6 (11.76%) Unit Testing
11 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
11 5 (9.80%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 32 (62.75%) C#
2 23 (45.10%) SQL
3 18 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 13 (25.49%) Java
5 6 (11.76%) PHP
6 5 (9.80%) Bash
6 5 (9.80%) Python
6 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.84%) Perl
7 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.88%) C++
8 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.92%) C
9 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.96%) Scala
10 1 (1.96%) Swift
10 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.92%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) HAProxy
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Atmel
2 2 (3.92%) Greenplum
3 1 (1.96%) Adobe
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) SAP
3 1 (1.96%) Xamarin