SOLID Jobs in Scotland

SOLID Principles
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 198 192
Rank change year-on-year -45 -6 -24
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 34 24 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% 0.51% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.54% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 28 23 42
10th Percentile £32,500 £55,000 £34,550
25th Percentile £42,000 - £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,563 £70,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £85,000 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,257 4,450 5,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.89% 94.28% 90.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,424 2,228 2,791
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,416 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,577 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Scotland

SOLID
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SOLID in Scotland

SOLID
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOLID in Scotland

SOLID
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow -83 20 £42,000 -23.64% 1
Edinburgh +30 12 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Aberdeen - 1 £50,000 -
Dundee - 1 £60,000 -
SOLID
UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
2 13 (38.24%) Azure
3 10 (29.41%) GCP
3 10 (29.41%) SaaS
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) CircleCI
1 11 (32.35%) GitLab
1 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) Git
General
1 21 (61.76%) Finance
2 14 (41.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (41.18%) Law
3 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 16 (47.06%) Senior
3 12 (35.29%) Java Developer
4 11 (32.35%) Software Engineer
5 8 (23.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Lead
7 4 (11.76%) .NET Developer
7 4 (11.76%) Junior
7 4 (11.76%) Junior Developer
7 4 (11.76%) Junior Java Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Full Stack Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Lead Java Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior .NET Software Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) .NET
1 17 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 16 (47.06%) Spring
3 12 (35.29%) AngularJS
4 10 (29.41%) .NET Framework
4 10 (29.41%) RESTful
5 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (26.47%) CSS
5 9 (26.47%) HTML
6 7 (20.59%) Kafka
6 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
7 5 (14.71%) SignalR
7 5 (14.71%) WCF
7 5 (14.71%) WF
8 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
9 3 (8.82%) JPA
10 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET
10 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (5.88%) React
11 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Agile
2 25 (73.53%) TDD
3 15 (44.12%) CI/CD
4 14 (41.18%) Design Patterns
5 13 (38.24%) OOP
5 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
6 12 (35.29%) Software Engineering
7 11 (32.35%) Microservices
8 9 (26.47%) MVC
8 9 (26.47%) Unit Testing
9 8 (23.53%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (20.59%) Scrum
11 6 (17.65%) User Experience
12 5 (14.71%) Client Onboarding
12 5 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
12 5 (14.71%) Process Improvement
12 5 (14.71%) Wealth Management
13 4 (11.76%) SDLC
13 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) C#
2 17 (50.00%) Java
3 11 (32.35%) JavaScript
3 11 (32.35%) Shell Script
4 9 (26.47%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) C++
6 1 (2.94%) PHP
6 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Grafana
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle
1 3 (8.82%) Splunk
2 1 (2.94%) Google