SOLID Jobs with Work from Home Options

SOLID Principles
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 365 241 295
Rank change year-on-year -124 +54 -83
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 243 551 978
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 1.43% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.49% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 230 473 568
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £39,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £87,500
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

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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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SOLID salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOLID over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

SOLID salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 11 (4.53%) IIS
2 7 (2.88%) CMS
3 5 (2.06%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.65%) WordPress
5 3 (1.23%) Apache
5 3 (1.23%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 132 (54.32%) Azure
2 71 (29.22%) AWS
3 56 (23.05%) SaaS
4 34 (13.99%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (8.23%) GCP
6 13 (5.35%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (4.94%) GitHub
8 9 (3.70%) Serverless
9 4 (1.65%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.23%) Figma
11 2 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.41%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (27.98%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.00%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.70%) GIS
4 9 (3.70%) MySQL
5 3 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.82%) Redis
6 2 (0.82%) SQLite
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.41%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 76 (31.28%) Git
2 29 (11.93%) Visual Studio
3 16 (6.58%) Postman
4 10 (4.12%) Maven
4 10 (4.12%) Selenium
5 9 (3.70%) JIRA
6 8 (3.29%) Android Studio
7 7 (2.88%) Jenkins
8 6 (2.47%) JMeter
8 6 (2.47%) Moq
8 6 (2.47%) Newman
8 6 (2.47%) REST Assured
9 5 (2.06%) JUnit
9 5 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.65%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (1.23%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.23%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.23%) xUnit.net
12 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
General
1 66 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.99%) Finance
3 19 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.53%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.88%) Law
6 7 (2.88%) Retail
7 6 (2.47%) Legal
7 6 (2.47%) Publishing
8 5 (2.06%) Games
8 5 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.65%) Banking
9 4 (1.65%) Marketing
10 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.41%) Aviation
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 162 (66.67%) Developer
2 76 (31.28%) Senior
3 62 (25.51%) .NET Developer
4 51 (20.99%) Senior Developer
5 42 (17.28%) Software Developer
6 39 (16.05%) C# Developer
7 32 (13.17%) Software Engineer
8 26 (10.70%) Architect
8 26 (10.70%) Technical Architect
9 25 (10.29%) Senior .NET Developer
10 24 (9.88%) Lead
11 21 (8.64%) PHP Developer
12 19 (7.82%) C# .NET Developer
13 14 (5.76%) Lead Developer
13 14 (5.76%) Senior C# Developer
13 14 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (5.35%) .NET Software Developer
15 12 (4.94%) Android Developer
16 11 (4.53%) Full Stack Developer
17 10 (4.12%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (60.91%) .NET
2 75 (30.86%) .NET Core
3 59 (24.28%) CSS
4 57 (23.46%) AngularJS
4 57 (23.46%) HTML
5 44 (18.11%) REST
6 42 (17.28%) ASP.NET
6 42 (17.28%) React
7 37 (15.23%) Entity Framework
8 35 (14.40%) .NET Framework
8 35 (14.40%) RESTful
9 31 (12.76%) Web Services
10 29 (11.93%) Vue
11 26 (10.70%) Spring
12 24 (9.88%) Laravel
13 18 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
13 18 (7.41%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (7.00%) ASP.NET MVC
15 16 (6.58%) CSS3
16 14 (5.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.76%) Product Ownership
2 26 (10.70%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.35%) Client/Server
4 12 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.12%) IoT
6 9 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.82%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.82%) Digital Currency
10 2 (0.82%) Kindle
10 2 (0.82%) NHS
10 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.41%) iPhone
11 1 (0.41%) Oculus
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.76%) Windows
2 13 (5.35%) Android
3 6 (2.47%) Unix
4 5 (2.06%) Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (54.73%) Agile
2 104 (42.80%) TDD
3 94 (38.68%) Microservices
4 87 (35.80%) Design Patterns
5 84 (34.57%) MVC
5 84 (34.57%) Unit Testing
6 72 (29.63%) DevOps
7 58 (23.87%) Software Engineering
8 56 (23.05%) OOP
9 48 (19.75%) Scrum
10 45 (18.52%) CI/CD
11 41 (16.87%) Mentoring
12 40 (16.46%) Full Stack Development
13 37 (15.23%) Test Automation
14 35 (14.40%) Continuous Integration
14 35 (14.40%) OO
15 25 (10.29%) Computer Science
15 25 (10.29%) Software Architecture
15 25 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (9.88%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 174 (71.60%) C#
2 103 (42.39%) JavaScript
3 83 (34.16%) SQL
4 35 (14.40%) TypeScript
5 34 (13.99%) Java
6 25 (10.29%) PHP
7 19 (7.82%) VB.NET
8 13 (5.35%) Ada
9 12 (4.94%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.94%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.88%) C++
11 6 (2.47%) C
11 6 (2.47%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.06%) Python
13 3 (1.23%) R
14 2 (0.82%) Scala
15 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (16.05%) Degree
2 18 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.12%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.70%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) QA
2 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.82%) SEPA
3 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (14.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.06%) Terraform
3 3 (1.23%) Kibana
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 74 (30.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.94%) Google
3 9 (3.70%) Xamarin
4 4 (1.65%) Oracle
5 3 (1.23%) Adobe
5 3 (1.23%) Databricks
5 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.82%) Northgate
6 2 (0.82%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.41%) Zend