SOLID Contracts with Work from Home Options

SOLID Principles
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SOLID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOLID over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 348 356
Rank change year-on-year +70 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing SOLID 63 109 280
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.51% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 82 209
10th Percentile £335 £401 £401
25th Percentile £441 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +6.00% +6.10%
75th Percentile £563 £671 £600
90th Percentile £688 £748 £654
UK median daily rate £508 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -4.25% +0.95% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £90.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.33% +38.46% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

SOLID falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

SOLID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOLID trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID.

SOLID daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOLID
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOLID over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

SOLID daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SOLID
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID.

SOLID hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.35%) CMS
2 3 (4.76%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 39 (61.90%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
3 8 (12.70%) AWS
3 8 (12.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (9.52%) Serverless
5 5 (7.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (6.35%) Azure API Management
6 4 (6.35%) NuGet
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.76%) PaaS
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.59%) IaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) NoSQL
2 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
3 8 (12.70%) Relational Database
4 6 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (7.94%) MySQL
6 2 (3.17%) CockroachDB
6 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.17%) Redis
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.59%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.59%) SQLite
7 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Git
2 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.35%) Postman
4 3 (4.76%) JIRA
4 3 (4.76%) Moq
5 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.17%) JUnit
5 2 (3.17%) NUnit
5 2 (3.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.59%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.59%) JMeter
6 1 (1.59%) jMock
6 1 (1.59%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.59%) Mockito
6 1 (1.59%) MSTest
6 1 (1.59%) Selenium
6 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (17.46%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Law
5 4 (6.35%) Tech for Good
6 3 (4.76%) Front Office
6 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Electronics
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (74.60%) Developer
2 12 (19.05%) .NET Developer
3 10 (15.87%) C# Developer
4 9 (14.29%) Azure Developer
4 9 (14.29%) Senior
4 9 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Android Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Mobile Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Angular Developer
8 4 (6.35%) C# Software Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) iOS Android Developer
8 4 (6.35%) iOS Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Lead
9 3 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (66.67%) .NET
2 18 (28.57%) HTML
3 17 (26.98%) CSS
3 17 (26.98%) REST
4 15 (23.81%) ASP.NET
5 14 (22.22%) .NET Core
6 13 (20.63%) Vue
7 12 (19.05%) Node.js
8 11 (17.46%) .NET Framework
8 11 (17.46%) AngularJS
8 11 (17.46%) Web Services
9 9 (14.29%) React
10 8 (12.70%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (11.11%) Entity Framework
12 6 (9.52%) Kafka
12 6 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (9.52%) Spring
12 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
13 5 (7.94%) RESTful
13 5 (7.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.94%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Android
2 5 (7.94%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.17%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Agile
1 23 (36.51%) Design Patterns
1 23 (36.51%) OO
1 23 (36.51%) TDD
2 18 (28.57%) Microservices
3 16 (25.40%) Clean Code
3 16 (25.40%) DevOps
4 15 (23.81%) MVC
5 14 (22.22%) Web Development
6 13 (20.63%) OOP
6 13 (20.63%) Software Engineering
7 12 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (19.05%) Unit Testing
8 11 (17.46%) MVVM
9 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 9 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 9 (14.29%) Scrum
10 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.70%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 41 (65.08%) C#
2 28 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 22 (34.92%) SQL
4 12 (19.05%) Java
5 8 (12.70%) Python
6 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.94%) PHP
7 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.35%) Bicep
9 3 (4.76%) Bash
10 2 (3.17%) C++
10 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 2 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (3.17%) Perl
11 1 (1.59%) Scala
11 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Terraform
2 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.17%) Apiary
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.59%) Databricks