SOLID Jobs in the UK excluding London

SOLID Principles
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SOLID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOLID over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 316 347
Rank change year-on-year +5 +31 -119
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 592 587 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.04% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.09% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 325 517 538
10th Percentile £39,700 £47,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,173 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.40% +12.93% -3.33%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -64 171 £60,000 -14.29% 18
North of England +45 160 £57,500 -4.17% 30
Midlands +43 122 £50,000 -16.67% 12
North West +15 122 £62,500 +4.17% 14
East Midlands +36 88 £46,250 -15.91% 6
South West +15 78 £55,000 - 8
West Midlands -12 34 £55,173 -11.72% 6
Scotland -50 34 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Yorkshire +52 27 £57,500 -17.86% 15
East of England -26 15 £55,173 -35.09% 5
Wales +15 11 £45,000 -18.18% 3
North East -8 11 £55,173 +0.31% 1
Northern Ireland +6 1 £49,500 +2.06% 1
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 10 (1.69%) CMS
2 5 (0.84%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.68%) WordPress
4 3 (0.51%) Apache
4 3 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.51%) Confluence
4 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.34%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 386 (65.20%) Azure
2 238 (40.20%) IBM Cloud
3 157 (26.52%) Azure DevOps
4 134 (22.64%) Serverless
5 133 (22.47%) Azure Service Bus
6 126 (21.28%) Azure Logic Apps
7 118 (19.93%) Azure Functions
8 116 (19.59%) Azure API Management
9 64 (10.81%) AWS
10 63 (10.64%) SaaS
11 18 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (3.04%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.20%) GitHub
13 11 (1.86%) GCP
14 4 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.51%) Figma
16 2 (0.34%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.18%) Network Security
2 2 (0.34%) DNS
2 2 (0.34%) SSL
2 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (40.71%) NoSQL
2 240 (40.54%) PostgreSQL
3 230 (38.85%) MongoDB
4 228 (38.51%) DB2
5 132 (22.30%) Relational Database
6 64 (10.81%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.70%) MySQL
8 14 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.52%) GIS
10 4 (0.68%) Big Data
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 95 (16.05%) Git
2 31 (5.24%) Visual Studio
3 19 (3.21%) JIRA
4 18 (3.04%) Postman
5 17 (2.87%) Maven
5 17 (2.87%) Selenium
6 16 (2.70%) Jenkins
7 15 (2.53%) NUnit
8 11 (1.86%) Android Studio
8 11 (1.86%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.86%) GitLab
9 7 (1.18%) Jasmine
9 7 (1.18%) MSTest
9 7 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.01%) JMeter
10 6 (1.01%) Moq
10 6 (1.01%) Newman
10 6 (1.01%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 240 (40.54%) Public Sector
2 137 (23.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 76 (12.84%) Social Skills
4 67 (11.32%) Finance
5 34 (5.74%) Law
6 18 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.20%) Games
8 10 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (1.52%) Legal
10 8 (1.35%) Marketing
10 8 (1.35%) Retail
11 7 (1.18%) Aviation
11 7 (1.18%) Military
11 7 (1.18%) Multimedia
11 7 (1.18%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.01%) Publishing
13 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 358 (60.47%) Developer
2 128 (21.62%) Full Stack Developer
3 120 (20.27%) Full Stack Engineer
3 120 (20.27%) Senior
4 116 (19.59%) Azure Developer
5 110 (18.58%) Azure Engineer
6 72 (12.16%) Senior Developer
7 71 (11.99%) .NET Developer
8 66 (11.15%) Software Developer
9 54 (9.12%) Software Engineer
10 49 (8.28%) C# Developer
11 47 (7.94%) Lead
12 41 (6.93%) Senior .NET Developer
13 36 (6.08%) Lead Developer
14 27 (4.56%) C# .NET Developer
15 26 (4.39%) Senior C# Developer
16 25 (4.22%) .NET Software Developer
17 23 (3.89%) Senior Software Developer
18 22 (3.72%) PHP Developer
19 19 (3.21%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (75.68%) .NET
2 295 (49.83%) HTML
3 294 (49.66%) CSS
4 292 (49.32%) AngularJS
5 290 (48.99%) REST
6 288 (48.65%) React
7 278 (46.96%) Web Services
8 265 (44.76%) ASP.NET
9 263 (44.43%) Vue
10 244 (41.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 241 (40.71%) jQuery
12 240 (40.54%) ASP.NET Core
13 228 (38.51%) Backbone.js
13 228 (38.51%) Ember.js
14 126 (21.28%) Node.js
15 97 (16.39%) .NET Core
16 81 (13.68%) .NET Framework
17 53 (8.95%) Entity Framework
18 47 (7.94%) RESTful
19 32 (5.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 239 (40.37%) Blockchain
2 238 (40.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 232 (39.19%) Algorithms
4 228 (38.51%) Data Structures
5 121 (20.44%) e-Learning
6 27 (4.56%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.72%) Cloud Native
8 20 (3.38%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.86%) IoT
10 10 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.52%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.18%) Oculus
12 7 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
13 6 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.84%) Public Cloud
15 4 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
16 3 (0.51%) Onboarding
17 2 (0.34%) Legacy Code
17 2 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 267 (45.10%) Windows
2 253 (42.74%) Linux
3 243 (41.05%) Android
4 230 (38.85%) Apple iOS
5 19 (3.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (60.30%) MVC
2 347 (58.61%) Design Patterns
3 314 (53.04%) Full Stack Development
4 301 (50.84%) OOP
5 288 (48.65%) Agile
6 282 (47.64%) OO
7 280 (47.30%) MVVM
8 264 (44.59%) User Experience
9 255 (43.07%) Web Development
10 243 (41.05%) Artificial Intelligence
11 237 (40.03%) Responsive Web Design
12 228 (38.51%) Co-Creation
12 228 (38.51%) Design Thinking
13 207 (34.97%) DevOps
14 197 (33.28%) Mentoring
15 157 (26.52%) Code Quality
16 153 (25.84%) TDD
17 138 (23.31%) Coaching
18 127 (21.45%) API Management
19 115 (19.43%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 472 (79.73%) C#
2 368 (62.16%) JavaScript
3 339 (57.26%) SQL
4 165 (27.87%) Java
5 121 (20.44%) Python
6 52 (8.78%) TypeScript
7 32 (5.41%) PHP
8 30 (5.07%) C
9 24 (4.05%) C++
10 19 (3.21%) XAML
11 18 (3.04%) VB.NET
12 16 (2.70%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.36%) Kotlin
13 14 (2.36%) T-SQL
14 13 (2.20%) Ada
15 2 (0.34%) Ruby
15 2 (0.34%) Scala
16 1 (0.17%) Swift
16 1 (0.17%) VBA
16 1 (0.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 39 (6.59%) Degree
2 11 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.51%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.34%) CISSP
5 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.55%) QA
2 3 (0.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.17%) SEPA
3 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (4.73%) Docker
2 4 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 18 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.51%) Kibana
2 3 (0.51%) Terraform
3 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 238 (40.20%) IBM
1 238 (40.20%) Red Hat
2 101 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.52%) Xamarin
4 7 (1.18%) Oracle
5 4 (0.68%) Adobe
5 4 (0.68%) Databricks
6 3 (0.51%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.51%) Google
6 3 (0.51%) Splunk
7 2 (0.34%) Northgate
7 2 (0.34%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.17%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.17%) Zend