SOLID Principles
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 326 285
Rank change year-on-year -37 -41 -56
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 792 992 2,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.07% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.12% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 467 766 980
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,977 £39,124
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.58% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,334 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.87% +13.64% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOLID.

Salary trend for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -26 730 £60,000 -11.11% 93
UK excluding London -16 594 £56,334 -9.87% 70
Work from Home -114 241 £57,500 -11.54% 63
South East -61 172 £60,000 -14.29% 15
London -50 167 £80,000 +6.67% 22
North of England +42 164 £57,500 -4.17% 25
Midlands +23 122 £50,000 -16.67% 13
North West +12 122 £65,000 +8.33% 14
East Midlands +18 89 £45,000 -18.18% 6
South West +13 77 £55,000 - 9
West Midlands -8 33 £55,173 -11.72% 7
Scotland -48 33 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Yorkshire +59 31 £57,500 -17.86% 10
East of England -34 15 £55,173 -35.09% 5
North East -12 11 £55,173 -4.05% 1
Wales +18 10 £42,500 -22.73% 2
Northern Ireland +4 1 £49,500 +2.06% 1

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (3.79%) CMS
2 16 (2.02%) IIS
3 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.63%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.51%) Confluence
4 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.51%) WordPress
5 3 (0.38%) Apache
6 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (2.40%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 20 (2.53%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 486 (61.36%) Azure
2 248 (31.31%) IBM Cloud
3 218 (27.53%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (21.84%) Serverless
5 162 (20.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 156 (19.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 140 (17.68%) Azure Functions
8 135 (17.05%) Azure API Management
9 125 (15.78%) AWS
10 77 (9.72%) SaaS
11 28 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (3.54%) Power Platform
12 23 (2.90%) GCP
13 21 (2.65%) GitHub
14 19 (2.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (2.40%) NuGet
15 13 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (1.14%) Amazon S3
18 8 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.88%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) HTTP
2 3 (0.38%) Internet
2 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.25%) DNS
3 2 (0.25%) SSL
3 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 253 (31.94%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (30.81%) MongoDB
4 238 (30.05%) DB2
5 151 (19.07%) Relational Database
6 133 (16.79%) SQL Server
7 45 (5.68%) MySQL
8 24 (3.03%) Redis
9 16 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.01%) GIS
11 6 (0.76%) Big Data
12 4 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.25%) SQLite
15 1 (0.13%) Neo4j
15 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 177 (22.35%) Git
2 61 (7.70%) Visual Studio
3 41 (5.18%) JIRA
4 35 (4.42%) NUnit
5 33 (4.17%) Moq
6 32 (4.04%) Postman
7 26 (3.28%) TeamCity
8 25 (3.16%) Jenkins
8 25 (3.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 22 (2.78%) SpecFlow
10 20 (2.53%) Selenium
11 19 (2.40%) git-flow
11 19 (2.40%) Sourcetree
12 18 (2.27%) Maven
13 17 (2.15%) GitLab
14 16 (2.02%) MSTest
15 15 (1.89%) Android Studio
16 11 (1.39%) CircleCI
17 9 (1.14%) Bitbucket
18 8 (1.01%) JUnit
General
1 260 (32.83%) Public Sector
2 154 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 115 (14.52%) Social Skills
4 105 (13.26%) Finance
5 44 (5.56%) Games
6 41 (5.18%) Law
7 28 (3.54%) Marketing
8 25 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (1.64%) Legal
9 13 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.52%) Retail
11 11 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.14%) Advertising
13 8 (1.01%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.88%) Banking
14 7 (0.88%) Front Office
14 7 (0.88%) Multimedia
15 6 (0.76%) Aviation
15 6 (0.76%) Military
15 6 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 503 (63.51%) Developer
2 197 (24.87%) Senior
3 172 (21.72%) Full Stack Developer
4 136 (17.17%) Azure Developer
5 123 (15.53%) Senior Developer
6 121 (15.28%) Full Stack Engineer
7 119 (15.03%) .NET Developer
8 110 (13.89%) Azure Engineer
9 96 (12.12%) C# Developer
10 76 (9.60%) Software Developer
10 76 (9.60%) Software Engineer
11 75 (9.47%) Lead
12 60 (7.58%) Lead Developer
13 56 (7.07%) Senior .NET Developer
14 52 (6.57%) Senior C# Developer
15 29 (3.66%) C# .NET Developer
16 28 (3.54%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 28 (3.54%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 27 (3.41%) Power Platform Developer
17 27 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 600 (75.76%) .NET
2 352 (44.44%) React
3 345 (43.56%) CSS
4 343 (43.31%) AngularJS
5 342 (43.18%) HTML
6 341 (43.06%) ASP.NET
7 334 (42.17%) Web Services
8 331 (41.79%) REST
9 278 (35.10%) jQuery
10 277 (34.97%) Vue
11 265 (33.46%) ASP.NET Core
12 262 (33.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (30.05%) Backbone.js
13 238 (30.05%) Ember.js
14 143 (18.06%) Node.js
15 137 (17.30%) .NET Core
16 133 (16.79%) .NET Framework
17 100 (12.63%) Entity Framework
18 82 (10.35%) RESTful
19 49 (6.19%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 258 (32.58%) Algorithms
2 249 (31.44%) Blockchain
3 248 (31.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 240 (30.30%) Data Structures
5 121 (15.28%) e-Learning
6 41 (5.18%) Product Ownership
7 34 (4.29%) Management Information System
8 31 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (3.79%) Cloud Native
10 20 (2.53%) Legacy Code
11 13 (1.64%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.52%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.39%) IoT
14 7 (0.88%) Blog
14 7 (0.88%) Derivative
14 7 (0.88%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.88%) N-Tier
14 7 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 285 (35.98%) Windows
2 265 (33.46%) Linux
3 262 (33.08%) Android
4 243 (30.68%) Apple iOS
5 20 (2.53%) Unix
6 5 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (54.55%) MVC
2 412 (52.02%) Agile
3 385 (48.61%) Design Patterns
4 368 (46.46%) Full Stack Development
5 346 (43.69%) OO
6 328 (41.41%) OOP
7 295 (37.25%) MVVM
8 291 (36.74%) DevOps
9 280 (35.35%) User Experience
10 276 (34.85%) Web Development
11 265 (33.46%) Responsive Web Design
12 257 (32.45%) Artificial Intelligence
13 238 (30.05%) Co-Creation
13 238 (30.05%) Design Thinking
14 237 (29.92%) Mentoring
15 223 (28.16%) TDD
16 173 (21.84%) Software Engineering
17 165 (20.83%) Code Quality
18 159 (20.08%) Coaching
19 156 (19.70%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 635 (80.18%) C#
2 456 (57.58%) JavaScript
3 428 (54.04%) SQL
4 200 (25.25%) Java
5 142 (17.93%) Python
6 101 (12.75%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.29%) PHP
8 32 (4.04%) T-SQL
9 31 (3.91%) C
10 24 (3.03%) C++
11 23 (2.90%) XAML
12 20 (2.53%) Kotlin
12 20 (2.53%) VB.NET
13 19 (2.40%) XPath
14 17 (2.15%) Shell Script
15 13 (1.64%) Ada
16 4 (0.51%) R
17 3 (0.38%) PowerShell
18 2 (0.25%) Ruby
18 2 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (13.38%) Degree
2 33 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (4.04%) Master's Degree
4 20 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 19 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.25%) CISSP
6 2 (0.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.04%) QA
2 6 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.25%) SEPA
4 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (6.57%) Docker
2 4 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 34 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.26%) Terraform
3 4 (0.51%) Kibana
4 3 (0.38%) Control-M
5 1 (0.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 248 (31.31%) IBM
1 248 (31.31%) Red Hat
2 136 (17.17%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.78%) Adobe
4 19 (2.40%) Cognizant
5 13 (1.64%) Google
6 9 (1.14%) Xamarin
7 8 (1.01%) Databricks
8 7 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 7 (0.88%) Oracle
9 4 (0.51%) Splunk
10 3 (0.38%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.38%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.25%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.25%) Northgate
11 2 (0.25%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.13%) Monzo