Separation of Concerns Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Separation of Concerns (SoC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Separation of Concerns skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 - 635
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Permanent jobs citing Separation of Concerns 2 0 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% - 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £45,000
75th Percentile £82,500 - £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +77.78% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Separation of Concerns 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,329 30,143 47,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.50% 87.59% 78.57%
Number of salaries quoted 37,453 16,463 30,137
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

Separation of Concerns
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Separation of Concerns relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Separation of Concerns job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Separation of Concerns
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Separation of Concerns.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Separation of Concerns

Separation of Concerns
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Separation of Concerns within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
South East - 2 £80,000 - 2
Separation of Concerns
UK

Separation of Concerns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (100.00%) Dapper ORM
1 2 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Async-Await
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft