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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 303 288
Rank change year-on-year -61 -15 -52
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 767 1,149 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 1.13% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.19% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 462 852 1,018
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £39,925
25th Percentile £50,688 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,173 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.72% +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 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 12 May 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 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -33 701 £60,000 -14.29% 104
UK excluding London -24 580 £55,173 -11.72% 76
Work from Home -119 238 £57,500 -11.54% 75
South East -55 165 £60,000 -7.69% 16
London -43 158 £80,000 - 36
North of England +34 154 £57,500 -8.00% 33
North West +9 123 £57,500 -4.17% 20
Midlands +49 119 £52,500 -12.50% 10
East Midlands +43 86 £50,000 -11.11% 6
South West +14 80 £55,000 -2.22% 4
Scotland -40 35 £55,000 -8.33% 7
West Midlands +20 33 £56,337 -9.86% 4
Yorkshire +53 22 £57,500 -17.86% 11
East of England -28 13 £65,000 -23.53% 4
Wales +20 11 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North East -4 9 £55,173 +5.09% 3
Northern Ireland +9 3 £55,000 +13.40%

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 22 (2.87%) CMS
2 13 (1.69%) IIS
3 5 (0.65%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.52%) Confluence
4 4 (0.52%) WordPress
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.39%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.26%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (1.83%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 15 (1.96%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 481 (62.71%) Azure
2 248 (32.33%) IBM Cloud
3 209 (27.25%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (22.56%) Serverless
5 168 (21.90%) Azure Service Bus
6 156 (20.34%) Azure Logic Apps
7 142 (18.51%) Azure Functions
8 140 (18.25%) Azure API Management
9 121 (15.78%) AWS
10 72 (9.39%) SaaS
11 26 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (3.39%) Power Platform
12 23 (3.00%) GCP
13 21 (2.74%) GitHub
14 14 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 14 (1.83%) NuGet
15 13 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 7 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Network Security
2 3 (0.39%) Internet
2 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) HTTP
3 2 (0.26%) SSL
3 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (34.55%) NoSQL
2 254 (33.12%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (31.81%) MongoDB
4 238 (31.03%) DB2
5 150 (19.56%) Relational Database
6 124 (16.17%) SQL Server
7 41 (5.35%) MySQL
8 27 (3.52%) Redis
9 16 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.17%) GIS
11 6 (0.78%) Big Data
12 5 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.26%) SQLite
15 1 (0.13%) Neo4j
15 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 156 (20.34%) Git
2 46 (6.00%) Visual Studio
3 36 (4.69%) Postman
4 35 (4.56%) JIRA
5 25 (3.26%) Jenkins
6 24 (3.13%) Moq
6 24 (3.13%) NUnit
7 20 (2.61%) TeamCity
8 19 (2.48%) Maven
8 19 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 18 (2.35%) SpecFlow
10 17 (2.22%) GitLab
10 17 (2.22%) Selenium
11 15 (1.96%) Android Studio
12 14 (1.83%) git-flow
12 14 (1.83%) Sourcetree
13 11 (1.43%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.17%) Bitbucket
14 9 (1.17%) MSTest
15 7 (0.91%) JUnit
General
1 260 (33.90%) Public Sector
2 152 (19.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 107 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 99 (12.91%) Finance
5 45 (5.87%) Games
6 36 (4.69%) Law
7 25 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (3.00%) Marketing
9 16 (2.09%) Retail
10 15 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.30%) Legal
12 9 (1.17%) Advertising
13 8 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.04%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.91%) Aviation
14 7 (0.91%) Banking
14 7 (0.91%) Military
15 6 (0.78%) Front Office
15 6 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 494 (64.41%) Developer
2 175 (22.82%) Senior
3 172 (22.43%) Full Stack Developer
4 136 (17.73%) Azure Developer
5 120 (15.65%) Full Stack Engineer
6 115 (14.99%) .NET Developer
7 112 (14.60%) Azure Engineer
8 104 (13.56%) Senior Developer
9 86 (11.21%) C# Developer
10 80 (10.43%) Lead
11 76 (9.91%) Software Developer
12 62 (8.08%) Lead Developer
13 58 (7.56%) Software Engineer
14 47 (6.13%) Senior .NET Developer
15 40 (5.22%) Senior C# Developer
16 27 (3.52%) Architect
16 27 (3.52%) Technical Architect
17 26 (3.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 26 (3.39%) Power Platform Developer
18 24 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 578 (75.36%) .NET
2 337 (43.94%) React
3 335 (43.68%) CSS
4 333 (43.42%) HTML
5 331 (43.16%) AngularJS
6 330 (43.02%) REST
7 329 (42.89%) ASP.NET
8 315 (41.07%) Web Services
9 276 (35.98%) Vue
10 271 (35.33%) jQuery
11 262 (34.16%) ASP.NET Core
12 259 (33.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (31.03%) Backbone.js
13 238 (31.03%) Ember.js
14 139 (18.12%) .NET Core
15 138 (17.99%) Node.js
16 110 (14.34%) .NET Framework
17 80 (10.43%) Entity Framework
18 69 (9.00%) RESTful
19 45 (5.87%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 256 (33.38%) Algorithms
2 249 (32.46%) Blockchain
3 248 (32.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 240 (31.29%) Data Structures
5 121 (15.78%) e-Learning
6 41 (5.35%) Product Ownership
7 34 (4.43%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.65%) Cloud Native
8 28 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.96%) Legacy Code
10 13 (1.69%) Client/Server
10 13 (1.69%) IoT
11 12 (1.56%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.91%) Oculus
13 7 (0.91%) Virtual Reality
14 6 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (0.65%) 3D Graphics
15 5 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 276 (35.98%) Windows
2 262 (34.16%) Android
3 260 (33.90%) Linux
4 243 (31.68%) Apple iOS
5 20 (2.61%) Unix
6 5 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (53.72%) MVC
2 392 (51.11%) Agile
3 389 (50.72%) Design Patterns
4 360 (46.94%) Full Stack Development
5 331 (43.16%) OO
6 324 (42.24%) OOP
7 286 (37.29%) MVVM
8 285 (37.16%) DevOps
8 285 (37.16%) User Experience
9 271 (35.33%) Web Development
10 260 (33.90%) Responsive Web Design
11 259 (33.77%) Artificial Intelligence
12 238 (31.03%) Co-Creation
12 238 (31.03%) Design Thinking
13 227 (29.60%) Mentoring
14 216 (28.16%) TDD
15 161 (20.99%) Code Quality
16 160 (20.86%) API Management
17 157 (20.47%) Coaching
18 150 (19.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 609 (79.40%) C#
2 436 (56.84%) JavaScript
3 419 (54.63%) SQL
4 201 (26.21%) Java
5 142 (18.51%) Python
6 102 (13.30%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.43%) PHP
8 31 (4.04%) T-SQL
9 26 (3.39%) C
10 23 (3.00%) VB.NET
11 20 (2.61%) C++
11 20 (2.61%) Kotlin
12 19 (2.48%) XAML
13 17 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.83%) XPath
15 13 (1.69%) Ada
16 5 (0.65%) R
17 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
18 2 (0.26%) Ruby
18 2 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (12.65%) Degree
2 32 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 29 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.22%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.26%) CISSP
7 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.04%) QA
2 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.26%) SEPA
4 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (6.78%) Docker
2 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 38 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.96%) Terraform
3 4 (0.52%) Kibana
4 3 (0.39%) Control-M
5 2 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 248 (32.33%) IBM
1 248 (32.33%) Red Hat
2 131 (17.08%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.22%) Adobe
4 14 (1.83%) Cognizant
5 12 (1.56%) Google
6 9 (1.17%) Databricks
6 9 (1.17%) Xamarin
7 6 (0.78%) Oracle
8 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.52%) Splunk
10 3 (0.39%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.39%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.26%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.26%) Northgate
12 1 (0.13%) Monzo
12 1 (0.13%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.13%) Twitter
12 1 (0.13%) Zend