SOLID Job Trends in Birmingham

SOLID Principles
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SOLID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 126 104
Rank change year-on-year +24 -22 +25
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 1 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.057% 0.17% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.18% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +17.39% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SOLID falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,387 1,686 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.30% 93.30% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 985 786 1,003
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,563 £40,494
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,625 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOLID relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SOLID job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SOLID
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SOLID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SOLID

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#