SOLID Jobs in the Midlands

SOLID Principles
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 207 259
Rank change year-on-year -47 +52 +51
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 10 117 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.14% 0.97% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 1.19% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7 43 62
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,500 £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,511 9,858 8,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.64% 81.50% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,619 7,185 4,441
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,875 £35,000 £38,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,374 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SOLID in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands +36 9 £67,500 +19.82% 5
East Midlands -56 1 £42,500 -5.56% 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) IIS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Data Hub
3 1 (10.00%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Games
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead PHP Developer
2 4 (40.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Development
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) Entity Framework
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (30.00%) Dapper ORM
5 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (20.00%) Bootstrap
5 2 (20.00%) CSS
5 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 2 (20.00%) jQuery
5 2 (20.00%) REST
5 2 (20.00%) RESTful
5 2 (20.00%) Swagger
5 2 (20.00%) Vue
5 2 (20.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) Blazor
6 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (40.00%) Line Management
3 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
5 2 (20.00%) API Design
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) CQRS
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (20.00%) OO
5 2 (20.00%) OOD
5 2 (20.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) PHP
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware