SOLID Jobs in the South West

SOLID Principles
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 212 228
Rank change year-on-year +51 +16 +45
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 20 80 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 0.86% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.03% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 17 72 38
10th Percentile £60,750 £32,500 £43,375
25th Percentile £63,750 £45,938 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -2.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,524 £67,500 £61,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,343 7,748 6,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.28% 83.55% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 5,564 3,572
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £80,000 £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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SOLID in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the South West over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Bristol +41 14 £68,525 +24.59% 12
Wiltshire +38 3 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Dorset +30 2 £62,500 +78.57% 3
Somerset +8 1 £62,500 +4.17% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) CMake
2 1 (5.00%) git-flow
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) NUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.00%) Subversion
2 1 (5.00%) WiX
General
1 5 (25.00%) Games
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Lead
2 8 (40.00%) Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Leader
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) SaaS Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Android Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) PHP Web Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Junior
6 1 (5.00%) Junior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Junior Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) React
2 7 (35.00%) CSS
3 5 (25.00%) LAMP
3 5 (25.00%) Node.js
4 4 (20.00%) Express.js
4 4 (20.00%) HTML
4 4 (20.00%) Next.js
4 4 (20.00%) RESTful
4 4 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (15.00%) Laravel
5 3 (15.00%) React Native
6 2 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (10.00%) Android SDK
6 2 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (5.00%) .NET
7 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
7 1 (5.00%) Qt
7 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (20.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (10.00%) Hackathon
2 2 (10.00%) Online Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 14 (70.00%) TDD
3 11 (55.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (35.00%) E-Commerce
6 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (30.00%) Scrum
6 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (25.00%) Line Management
7 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (20.00%) Atomic Design
8 4 (20.00%) Availability Management
8 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (20.00%) Information Security
8 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
8 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (20.00%) User Research
8 4 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) PHP
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) C
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) ISEB
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) SAP