SOLID Jobs in the North of England

SOLID Principles
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 310 236 290
Rank change year-on-year -74 +54 -53
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 39 157 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.85% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.04% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 32 72 126
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,750 £46,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £59,081 £70,688 £84,375
90th Percentile £80,950 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,078 15,074 15,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.14% 81.62% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,542 11,471 7,791
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,967 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,250 £81,250
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for SOLID in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for SOLID in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the North of 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
North West -86 32 £57,836 -7.46% 33
North East +43 4 £55,000 -0.31%
Yorkshire +35 3 £85,253 +48.27% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (5.13%) IIS
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) GCP
3 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) SaaS
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.56%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) MySQL
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.13%) Data Hub
3 2 (5.13%) SQL CLR
4 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) NUnit
3 1 (2.56%) ESLint
3 1 (2.56%) Storybook
3 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 22 (56.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Finance
3 8 (20.51%) Games
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Lead
2 15 (38.46%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 15 (38.46%) Systems Engineer
3 14 (35.90%) Senior
4 10 (25.64%) Developer
5 9 (23.08%) Senior Developer
6 8 (20.51%) Software Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (12.82%) PHP Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Senior PHP Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) .NET Developer
9 3 (7.69%) PHP Software Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 2 (5.13%) Head of Development
11 1 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 1 (2.56%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
11 1 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) .NET
2 10 (25.64%) React
3 8 (20.51%) CSS
4 7 (17.95%) .NET Core
4 7 (17.95%) HTML
5 6 (15.38%) .NET Framework
5 6 (15.38%) RESTful
6 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.82%) jQuery
6 5 (12.82%) LAMP
6 5 (12.82%) Vue
7 4 (10.26%) Entity Framework
8 3 (7.69%) Redux
8 3 (7.69%) Web Services
9 2 (5.13%) Dapper ORM
9 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
9 2 (5.13%) JSON
10 1 (2.56%) Android SDK
10 1 (2.56%) React Native
10 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) Agile
2 25 (64.10%) Software Engineering
3 18 (46.15%) Microservices
4 17 (43.59%) Containerisation
5 15 (38.46%) Business Case
5 15 (38.46%) Business Strategy
5 15 (38.46%) Data Analysis
5 15 (38.46%) Line Management
5 15 (38.46%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 15 (38.46%) Performance Management
5 15 (38.46%) Roadmaps
5 15 (38.46%) SysML
5 15 (38.46%) Systems Engineering
5 15 (38.46%) Technology Roadmap
5 15 (38.46%) UML
6 14 (35.90%) TDD
7 9 (23.08%) E-Commerce
8 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
9 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Java
2 15 (38.46%) C
3 13 (33.33%) C#
4 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.51%) PHP
5 3 (7.69%) SQL
6 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
7 1 (2.56%) Go
7 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Degree
2 15 (38.46%) HND
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
System Software
1 15 (38.46%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Kibana
3 1 (2.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Twitter
2 2 (5.13%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) VMware
3 1 (2.56%) Optimizely