SOLID Jobs in England

SOLID Principles
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SOLID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOLID over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 329 318
Rank change year-on-year -156 -11 -20
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 198 721 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.80% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.96% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 145 412 686
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year - -8.40% +12.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in England

SOLID
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOLID in England.

Salary trend for SOLID in England

SOLID
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOLID in England

SOLID
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
London +23 80 £72,500 -9.38% 85
South East -39 45 £57,500 -4.17% 37
North of England -74 39 £57,836 +0.58% 60
North West -86 32 £57,836 -7.46% 48
South West +48 14 £67,500 +22.73% 21
Midlands -47 9 £60,000 +20.00% 21
East of England +43 8 £50,000 -9.38% 13
West Midlands +30 8 £63,750 +15.55% 10
North East +43 4 £55,000 -0.31% 1
Yorkshire +35 3 £85,253 +48.27% 11
East Midlands -41 1 £42,500 -8.11% 11
SOLID
UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (4.55%) IIS
1 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.52%) CMS
2 3 (1.52%) WordPress
3 1 (0.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.51%) nginx
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (31.82%) AWS
2 48 (24.24%) Azure
3 31 (15.66%) GitHub
4 23 (11.62%) GCP
5 18 (9.09%) SaaS
6 16 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.03%) Serverless
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.53%) CloudFront
9 5 (2.53%) Route 53
10 4 (2.02%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.52%) Datadog
11 3 (1.52%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.01%) PaaS
12 2 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) Internet
2 2 (1.01%) Broadband
3 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.23%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.09%) MySQL
3 17 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (8.08%) MongoDB
5 15 (7.58%) NoSQL
6 12 (6.06%) Relational Database
7 9 (4.55%) Data Hub
7 9 (4.55%) SQL CLR
8 8 (4.04%) Redis
9 5 (2.53%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.01%) Couchbase
10 2 (1.01%) MS Access
10 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.51%) SQLite
11 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (22.22%) Git
2 14 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.06%) Gradle
4 8 (4.04%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.54%) NUnit
6 5 (2.53%) JUnit
6 5 (2.53%) Maven
6 5 (2.53%) PHPUnit
7 4 (2.02%) GitLab
7 4 (2.02%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.52%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.52%) Mocha
8 3 (1.52%) Mockito
8 3 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.01%) Moq
9 2 (1.01%) Selenium
9 2 (1.01%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.01%) Spock
9 2 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 69 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.69%) Finance
3 25 (12.63%) Games
3 25 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.57%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.56%) Aviation
5 11 (5.56%) Banking
6 10 (5.05%) Back Office
7 9 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.03%) Marketing
10 5 (2.53%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.52%) Law
11 3 (1.52%) Retail
12 1 (0.51%) Automotive
12 1 (0.51%) Electronics
12 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.51%) Publishing
12 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (55.05%) Developer
2 53 (26.77%) Lead
3 52 (26.26%) Senior
4 41 (20.71%) Software Engineer
5 37 (18.69%) Senior Developer
6 30 (15.15%) .NET Developer
7 20 (10.10%) iOS Developer
8 19 (9.60%) C# Developer
9 15 (7.58%) C# .NET Developer
9 15 (7.58%) Lead Systems Engineer
9 15 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (7.58%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (7.07%) Lead Developer
11 12 (6.06%) PHP Developer
12 11 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (5.05%) Head of Development
13 10 (5.05%) Java Engineer
13 10 (5.05%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (5.05%) Senior .NET Developer
14 8 (4.04%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (45.45%) .NET
2 55 (27.78%) RESTful
3 49 (24.75%) React
4 34 (17.17%) .NET Core
5 33 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 30 (15.15%) CSS
7 25 (12.63%) AngularJS
8 24 (12.12%) HTML
9 22 (11.11%) Entity Framework
9 22 (11.11%) Spring
10 21 (10.61%) Vue
11 17 (8.59%) Web Services
12 16 (8.08%) Node.js
13 15 (7.58%) ASP.NET
13 15 (7.58%) REST
14 14 (7.07%) Kafka
15 13 (6.57%) Dapper ORM
16 12 (6.06%) jQuery
17 11 (5.56%) GraphQL
18 10 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.13%) Cloud Native
1 26 (13.13%) Mobile App
2 20 (10.10%) Management Information System
3 18 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (7.07%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (6.06%) Mobile Games
6 9 (4.55%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (2.53%) N-Tier
8 4 (2.02%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.14%) Apple iOS
2 17 (8.59%) Android
3 10 (5.05%) Windows
4 9 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (65.15%) Agile
2 99 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 62 (31.31%) Design Patterns
4 58 (29.29%) Microservices
5 55 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 52 (26.26%) DevOps
7 51 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (25.25%) Clean Code
8 50 (25.25%) TDD
9 45 (22.73%) Mentoring
10 39 (19.70%) Unit Testing
11 30 (15.15%) Test Automation
12 29 (14.65%) Full-Stack Development
13 28 (14.14%) Containerisation
14 27 (13.64%) E-Commerce
15 26 (13.13%) Computer Science
15 26 (13.13%) OO
16 25 (12.63%) OOP
16 25 (12.63%) Scrum
17 24 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 88 (44.44%) C#
2 51 (25.76%) Java
2 51 (25.76%) JavaScript
3 40 (20.20%) SQL
4 30 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 23 (11.62%) Swift
6 22 (11.11%) PHP
7 20 (10.10%) Python
8 16 (8.08%) C
8 16 (8.08%) Kotlin
9 9 (4.55%) Objective-C
10 5 (2.53%) Go
10 5 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.53%) Ruby
10 5 (2.53%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.52%) Bash
12 2 (1.01%) C++
12 2 (1.01%) Groovy
12 2 (1.01%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (23.23%) Degree
2 22 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.60%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.58%) HND
5 5 (2.53%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.51%) ISEB
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.68%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.01%) NCSC
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 33 (16.67%) Docker
2 16 (8.08%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.54%) Prometheus
3 6 (3.03%) Terraform
4 5 (2.53%) Argo
4 5 (2.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.51%) Control-M
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
5 1 (0.51%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.57%) New Relic
3 9 (4.55%) VMware
4 8 (4.04%) Google
5 4 (2.02%) DevExpress
5 4 (2.02%) Oracle
5 4 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.52%) Twitter
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe
7 1 (0.51%) Apple
7 1 (0.51%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.51%) SAP
7 1 (0.51%) Telerik
7 1 (0.51%) Xamarin