SOLID Jobs in the Thames Valley

SOLID Principles
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 181 213 171
Rank change year-on-year +32 -42 +50
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 8 32 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.48% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.56% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8 32 73
10th Percentile £50,125 £40,000 £56,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,563 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £56,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -43.75% +81.82%
75th Percentile £71,500 £61,563 £112,500
90th Percentile £71,800 £85,000 £116,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +21.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,231 5,669 5,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.98% 84.47% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,227 3,857 3,062
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for SOLID in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +39 7 £70,000 +47.37% 5
Oxfordshire +11 1 £50,000 -9.09% 3
SOLID
South East

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Mockito
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior JavaScript Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Mid Level C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) React
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
3 3 (37.50%) Kafka
3 3 (37.50%) OAuth
3 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (37.50%) React Native
3 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (37.50%) Vue
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (37.50%) API Development
3 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
3 3 (37.50%) Community of Practice
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
3 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (37.50%) Web Application Development
4 1 (12.50%) Application Security
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
1 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform