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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 298 348
Rank change year-on-year -24 +50 -122
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 576 654 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.09% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.13% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 314 562 555
10th Percentile £39,650 £46,775 £38,750
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 £91,125 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% -

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 59,635 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.05% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,208 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,117 £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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 8 May 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 8 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
South East -56 163 £60,000 -7.69% 17
North of England +21 152 £57,500 -11.54% 36
North West +14 122 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Midlands +58 119 £52,500 -12.50% 12
East Midlands +43 86 £50,000 -11.11% 6
South West +12 80 £55,000 -2.22% 5
Scotland -44 35 £55,000 -8.33% 9
West Midlands +9 33 £56,337 -9.86% 6
Yorkshire +51 21 £57,500 -17.86% 14
East of England -35 12 £65,000 -23.53% 6
Wales +14 11 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North East -1 9 £55,173 +5.09% 2
Northern Ireland +14 4 £55,000 +13.40%
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 7 (1.22%) CMS
2 5 (0.87%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.69%) WordPress
4 3 (0.52%) Apache
4 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.52%) Confluence
4 3 (0.52%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.35%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.35%) IIS
5 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 380 (65.97%) Azure
2 238 (41.32%) IBM Cloud
3 149 (25.87%) Azure DevOps
4 136 (23.61%) Azure Service Bus
5 134 (23.26%) Serverless
6 126 (21.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 119 (20.66%) Azure API Management
8 118 (20.49%) Azure Functions
9 60 (10.42%) AWS
10 57 (9.90%) SaaS
11 17 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (2.95%) Power Platform
12 12 (2.08%) GCP
12 12 (2.08%) GitHub
13 4 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (0.69%) Azure App Service
13 4 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.52%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) Network Security
2 2 (0.35%) DNS
2 2 (0.35%) SSL
2 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (41.84%) NoSQL
2 240 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
3 229 (39.76%) MongoDB
4 228 (39.58%) DB2
5 131 (22.74%) Relational Database
6 63 (10.94%) SQL Server
7 14 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.08%) MySQL
9 9 (1.56%) GIS
10 4 (0.69%) Big Data
11 3 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (14.93%) Git
2 24 (4.17%) Visual Studio
3 21 (3.65%) Postman
4 18 (3.13%) JIRA
5 17 (2.95%) Maven
6 16 (2.78%) Jenkins
7 13 (2.26%) Selenium
8 11 (1.91%) Android Studio
8 11 (1.91%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.91%) GitLab
9 9 (1.56%) NUnit
10 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.04%) JMeter
10 6 (1.04%) Newman
10 6 (1.04%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.87%) Moq
12 4 (0.69%) MSTest
12 4 (0.69%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.52%) Jasmine
General
1 240 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 137 (23.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 71 (12.33%) Social Skills
4 66 (11.46%) Finance
5 29 (5.03%) Law
6 18 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.26%) Games
8 11 (1.91%) Retail
9 8 (1.39%) Marketing
9 8 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.22%) Aviation
10 7 (1.22%) Legal
10 7 (1.22%) Military
11 6 (1.04%) Publishing
11 6 (1.04%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Banking
13 3 (0.52%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 352 (61.11%) Developer
2 129 (22.40%) Full Stack Developer
3 119 (20.66%) Full Stack Engineer
4 115 (19.97%) Azure Developer
5 112 (19.44%) Azure Engineer
6 108 (18.75%) Senior
7 65 (11.28%) .NET Developer
8 64 (11.11%) Software Developer
9 60 (10.42%) Senior Developer
10 50 (8.68%) Lead
11 45 (7.81%) C# Developer
12 41 (7.12%) Software Engineer
13 38 (6.60%) Lead Developer
14 30 (5.21%) Senior .NET Developer
15 21 (3.65%) .NET Software Developer
15 21 (3.65%) C# .NET Developer
15 21 (3.65%) PHP Developer
16 20 (3.47%) Senior C# Developer
17 19 (3.30%) Senior Software Developer
18 17 (2.95%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (76.56%) .NET
2 293 (50.87%) HTML
3 291 (50.52%) CSS
4 290 (50.35%) REST
5 285 (49.48%) AngularJS
6 280 (48.61%) React
7 273 (47.40%) Web Services
8 262 (45.49%) ASP.NET
8 262 (45.49%) Vue
9 244 (42.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 241 (41.84%) jQuery
11 238 (41.32%) ASP.NET Core
12 228 (39.58%) Backbone.js
12 228 (39.58%) Ember.js
13 125 (21.70%) Node.js
14 98 (17.01%) .NET Core
15 68 (11.81%) .NET Framework
16 43 (7.47%) Entity Framework
17 41 (7.12%) RESTful
18 32 (5.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 239 (41.49%) Blockchain
2 238 (41.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 229 (39.76%) Algorithms
4 228 (39.58%) Data Structures
5 121 (21.01%) e-Learning
6 28 (4.86%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.65%) Cloud Native
8 20 (3.47%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.26%) IoT
10 10 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.56%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.22%) Oculus
13 7 (1.22%) Virtual Reality
14 6 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
16 4 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
17 2 (0.35%) 3D Graphics
17 2 (0.35%) Kindle
17 2 (0.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 260 (45.14%) Windows
2 249 (43.23%) Linux
3 243 (42.19%) Android
4 230 (39.93%) Apple iOS
5 19 (3.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (60.42%) MVC
2 347 (60.24%) Design Patterns
3 306 (53.13%) Full Stack Development
4 298 (51.74%) OOP
5 276 (47.92%) Agile
6 274 (47.57%) OO
7 273 (47.40%) MVVM
8 268 (46.53%) User Experience
9 253 (43.92%) Web Development
10 243 (42.19%) Artificial Intelligence
11 237 (41.15%) Responsive Web Design
12 228 (39.58%) Co-Creation
12 228 (39.58%) Design Thinking
13 206 (35.76%) DevOps
14 192 (33.33%) Mentoring
15 154 (26.74%) Code Quality
16 149 (25.87%) TDD
17 138 (23.96%) Coaching
18 130 (22.57%) API Management
19 115 (19.97%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 460 (79.86%) C#
2 362 (62.85%) JavaScript
3 338 (58.68%) SQL
4 165 (28.65%) Java
5 121 (21.01%) Python
6 52 (9.03%) TypeScript
7 31 (5.38%) PHP
8 26 (4.51%) C
9 20 (3.47%) C++
9 20 (3.47%) VB.NET
10 16 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.78%) T-SQL
10 16 (2.78%) XAML
11 14 (2.43%) Kotlin
12 13 (2.26%) Ada
13 2 (0.35%) Ruby
13 2 (0.35%) Scala
14 1 (0.17%) Swift
14 1 (0.17%) VBA
14 1 (0.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (6.60%) Degree
2 11 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.52%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.35%) CISSP
5 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.47%) QA
2 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.17%) SEPA
3 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (4.86%) Docker
2 4 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 20 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.04%) Terraform
3 3 (0.52%) Kibana
4 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 238 (41.32%) IBM
1 238 (41.32%) Red Hat
2 97 (16.84%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.56%) Xamarin
4 6 (1.04%) Oracle
5 4 (0.69%) Adobe
5 4 (0.69%) Databricks
6 3 (0.52%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.52%) Google
6 3 (0.52%) Splunk
7 2 (0.35%) Northgate
8 1 (0.17%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.17%) Twitter
8 1 (0.17%) Zend