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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 314 292
Rank change year-on-year -44 -22 -57
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 780 1,060 2,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 1.09% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.14% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 467 791 976
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £39,562
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +13.42% -3.75%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £90,000
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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
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 28 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 28 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 -25 716 £60,000 -11.11% 115
UK excluding London 0 585 £55,173 -11.72% 86
Work from Home -118 238 £57,500 -11.54% 79
South East -55 167 £60,000 -14.29% 18
London -19 163 £80,000 +6.67% 35
North of England +50 158 £57,500 -4.17% 34
North West +25 123 £62,500 +4.17% 17
Midlands +50 121 £50,000 -18.37% 12
East Midlands +40 87 £46,250 -17.78% 5
South West +13 78 £55,000 - 7
West Midlands +10 34 £55,173 -11.72% 7
Scotland -41 34 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire +63 24 £57,500 -17.86% 14
East of England -32 15 £55,173 -35.09% 8
Wales +9 11 £45,000 -18.18% 7
North East -3 11 £55,173 +2.65% 5
Northern Ireland +3 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 26 (3.33%) CMS
2 15 (1.92%) IIS
3 5 (0.64%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.51%) Confluence
4 4 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.51%) WordPress
5 3 (0.38%) Apache
5 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.26%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (2.18%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 18 (2.31%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 485 (62.18%) Azure
2 248 (31.79%) IBM Cloud
3 215 (27.56%) Azure DevOps
4 175 (22.44%) Serverless
5 165 (21.15%) Azure Service Bus
6 157 (20.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 141 (18.08%) Azure Functions
8 138 (17.69%) Azure API Management
9 124 (15.90%) AWS
10 75 (9.62%) SaaS
11 28 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (3.59%) Power Platform
12 23 (2.95%) GCP
13 21 (2.69%) GitHub
14 17 (2.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 17 (2.18%) NuGet
15 13 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (1.28%) Amazon S3
18 9 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.90%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Internet
2 3 (0.38%) 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
1 264 (33.85%) NoSQL
2 255 (32.69%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (31.28%) MongoDB
4 238 (30.51%) DB2
5 151 (19.36%) Relational Database
6 129 (16.54%) SQL Server
7 43 (5.51%) MySQL
8 25 (3.21%) Redis
9 16 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.15%) GIS
11 6 (0.77%) 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 (0.26%) SQLite
15 1 (0.13%) Neo4j
15 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 172 (22.05%) Git
2 56 (7.18%) Visual Studio
3 38 (4.87%) JIRA
4 32 (4.10%) NUnit
4 32 (4.10%) Postman
5 30 (3.85%) Moq
6 25 (3.21%) Jenkins
7 24 (3.08%) TeamCity
8 23 (2.95%) Octopus Deploy
9 20 (2.56%) Maven
9 20 (2.56%) Selenium
9 20 (2.56%) SpecFlow
10 17 (2.18%) git-flow
10 17 (2.18%) GitLab
10 17 (2.18%) Sourcetree
11 15 (1.92%) Android Studio
12 14 (1.79%) MSTest
13 11 (1.41%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.15%) Bitbucket
15 8 (1.03%) JUnit
General
1 260 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 154 (19.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 110 (14.10%) Social Skills
4 102 (13.08%) Finance
5 45 (5.77%) Games
6 42 (5.38%) Law
7 26 (3.33%) Marketing
8 25 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.79%) Retail
11 12 (1.54%) Legal
12 10 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.15%) Advertising
14 7 (0.90%) Aviation
14 7 (0.90%) Banking
14 7 (0.90%) Front Office
14 7 (0.90%) Military
14 7 (0.90%) Multimedia
14 7 (0.90%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 499 (63.97%) Developer
2 186 (23.85%) Senior
3 172 (22.05%) Full Stack Developer
4 137 (17.56%) Azure Developer
5 120 (15.38%) Full Stack Engineer
6 116 (14.87%) .NET Developer
7 114 (14.62%) Senior Developer
8 110 (14.10%) Azure Engineer
9 93 (11.92%) C# Developer
10 76 (9.74%) Lead
10 76 (9.74%) Software Developer
11 68 (8.72%) Software Engineer
12 60 (7.69%) Lead Developer
13 51 (6.54%) Senior .NET Developer
14 48 (6.15%) Senior C# Developer
15 28 (3.59%) C# .NET Developer
15 28 (3.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 27 (3.46%) Architect
16 27 (3.46%) Power Platform Developer
16 27 (3.46%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 588 (75.38%) .NET
2 343 (43.97%) React
3 341 (43.72%) CSS
4 338 (43.33%) HTML
5 334 (42.82%) AngularJS
5 334 (42.82%) ASP.NET
6 327 (41.92%) REST
7 324 (41.54%) Web Services
8 274 (35.13%) jQuery
9 273 (35.00%) Vue
10 264 (33.85%) ASP.NET Core
11 261 (33.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 238 (30.51%) Backbone.js
12 238 (30.51%) Ember.js
13 137 (17.56%) Node.js
14 135 (17.31%) .NET Core
15 128 (16.41%) .NET Framework
16 95 (12.18%) Entity Framework
17 80 (10.26%) RESTful
18 46 (5.90%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 258 (33.08%) Algorithms
2 249 (31.92%) Blockchain
3 248 (31.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 240 (30.77%) Data Structures
5 121 (15.51%) e-Learning
6 40 (5.13%) Product Ownership
7 34 (4.36%) Management Information System
8 31 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (3.85%) Cloud Native
10 18 (2.31%) Legacy Code
11 13 (1.67%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.54%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.41%) IoT
14 7 (0.90%) Blog
14 7 (0.90%) Derivative
14 7 (0.90%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.90%) N-Tier
14 7 (0.90%) Oculus
14 7 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 281 (36.03%) Windows
2 262 (33.59%) Android
3 261 (33.46%) Linux
4 243 (31.15%) Apple iOS
5 20 (2.56%) Unix
6 5 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (53.59%) MVC
2 408 (52.31%) Agile
3 388 (49.74%) Design Patterns
4 367 (47.05%) Full Stack Development
5 341 (43.72%) OO
6 328 (42.05%) OOP
7 291 (37.31%) MVVM
8 289 (37.05%) DevOps
9 281 (36.03%) User Experience
10 274 (35.13%) Web Development
11 263 (33.72%) Responsive Web Design
12 258 (33.08%) Artificial Intelligence
13 238 (30.51%) Co-Creation
13 238 (30.51%) Design Thinking
14 233 (29.87%) Mentoring
15 221 (28.33%) TDD
16 166 (21.28%) Software Engineering
17 164 (21.03%) Code Quality
18 159 (20.38%) API Management
19 158 (20.26%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 621 (79.62%) C#
2 447 (57.31%) JavaScript
3 422 (54.10%) SQL
4 204 (26.15%) Java
5 142 (18.21%) Python
6 101 (12.95%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.23%) PHP
8 31 (3.97%) T-SQL
9 28 (3.59%) C
10 22 (2.82%) C++
11 21 (2.69%) VB.NET
12 20 (2.56%) Kotlin
12 20 (2.56%) XAML
13 17 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.18%) XPath
14 13 (1.67%) Ada
15 4 (0.51%) R
16 3 (0.38%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.26%) Ruby
17 2 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 104 (13.33%) Degree
2 32 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (4.10%) Master's Degree
3 20 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.26%) CISSP
6 2 (0.26%) 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 31 (3.97%) QA
2 5 (0.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.26%) SEPA
4 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (6.79%) Docker
2 4 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.54%) Terraform
3 4 (0.51%) Kibana
4 3 (0.38%) Control-M
5 2 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 248 (31.79%) IBM
1 248 (31.79%) Red Hat
2 135 (17.31%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.56%) Adobe
4 17 (2.18%) Cognizant
5 13 (1.67%) Google
6 9 (1.15%) Xamarin
7 8 (1.03%) Databricks
8 7 (0.90%) Bloomberg
8 7 (0.90%) Oracle
9 4 (0.51%) Splunk
10 3 (0.38%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.38%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.26%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.26%) Northgate
11 2 (0.26%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.13%) Monzo
12 1 (0.13%) Zend