SOLID Jobs in the UK excluding London

SOLID Principles
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 453 316 319
Rank change year-on-year -137 +3 +37
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 126 588 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.79% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.95% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 112 324 514
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,650 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,173 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -11.72% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £77,925 £85,000 £93,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year - -8.40% +12.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the UK excluding London

SOLID
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 SOLID within the UK excluding London 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
South East -39 45 £57,500 -4.17% 37
North of England -74 39 £57,836 +0.58% 60
North West -86 32 £57,836 -7.46% 48
South West +48 14 £67,500 +22.73% 21
Midlands -47 9 £60,000 +20.00% 21
Scotland +96 8 £56,500 +2.73% 6
East of England +43 8 £50,000 -9.38% 13
West Midlands +30 8 £63,750 +15.55% 10
North East +43 4 £55,000 -0.31% 1
Yorkshire +35 3 £85,253 +48.27% 11
Wales +33 3 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -41 1 £42,500 -8.11% 11
SOLID
UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.17%) IIS
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.95%) Azure
2 35 (27.78%) AWS
3 16 (12.70%) SaaS
4 13 (10.32%) GCP
5 11 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.14%) GitHub
7 4 (3.17%) Serverless
8 2 (1.59%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.79%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.79%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Internet
2 2 (1.59%) Broadband
3 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.35%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.35%) MySQL
2 8 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.35%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.17%) Data Hub
3 4 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.17%) SQL CLR
4 2 (1.59%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.59%) Redis
5 1 (0.79%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.79%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (17.46%) Git
2 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.97%) NUnit
3 4 (3.17%) JUnit
4 3 (2.38%) GitLab
4 3 (2.38%) Mockito
4 3 (2.38%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.59%) Moq
5 2 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.59%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.59%) Spock
5 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.79%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.79%) CMake
6 1 (0.79%) MSTest
6 1 (0.79%) Selenium
6 1 (0.79%) Subversion
6 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.79%) WiX
6 1 (0.79%) xUnit.net
General
1 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.08%) Finance
3 16 (12.70%) Games
4 9 (7.14%) Aviation
5 6 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Back Office
6 5 (3.97%) Retail
7 4 (3.17%) Banking
7 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Automotive
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (55.56%) Developer
2 32 (25.40%) Lead
3 31 (24.60%) Senior
4 24 (19.05%) .NET Developer
5 22 (17.46%) Software Engineer
6 17 (13.49%) Senior Developer
7 16 (12.70%) C# Developer
8 15 (11.90%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 15 (11.90%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (10.32%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (7.14%) iOS Developer
11 9 (7.14%) PHP Developer
12 7 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.56%) Lead Developer
13 6 (4.76%) PHP Software Engineer
14 5 (3.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 5 (3.97%) Senior .NET Developer
14 5 (3.97%) Senior PHP Developer
14 5 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (46.03%) .NET
2 32 (25.40%) RESTful
3 29 (23.02%) React
4 24 (19.05%) .NET Core
5 20 (15.87%) CSS
6 19 (15.08%) .NET Framework
7 16 (12.70%) AngularJS
7 16 (12.70%) HTML
7 16 (12.70%) Vue
8 12 (9.52%) Entity Framework
9 10 (7.94%) Kafka
9 10 (7.94%) Node.js
9 10 (7.94%) Web Services
10 7 (5.56%) ASP.NET
10 7 (5.56%) jQuery
10 7 (5.56%) LAMP
11 6 (4.76%) Dapper ORM
11 6 (4.76%) REST
11 6 (4.76%) YAML
12 5 (3.97%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.08%) Management Information System
2 17 (13.49%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (9.52%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.17%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.17%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.79%) Clustering
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.79%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.79%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.79%) NHS
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.79%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.32%) Apple iOS
2 6 (4.76%) Android
3 5 (3.97%) Linux
3 5 (3.97%) Windows
4 4 (3.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (57.94%) Agile
2 51 (40.48%) Software Engineering
3 40 (31.75%) Microservices
4 38 (30.16%) TDD
5 30 (23.81%) Design Patterns
6 29 (23.02%) E-Commerce
7 27 (21.43%) Clean Code
8 26 (20.63%) CI/CD
8 26 (20.63%) DevOps
9 24 (19.05%) Mentoring
10 23 (18.25%) Line Management
10 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (18.25%) Unit Testing
11 20 (15.87%) Containerisation
12 18 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (13.49%) OO
13 17 (13.49%) Roadmaps
13 17 (13.49%) Technology Roadmap
14 16 (12.70%) Scrum
15 15 (11.90%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 60 (47.62%) C#
2 35 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 24 (19.05%) Java
3 24 (19.05%) SQL
4 20 (15.87%) TypeScript
5 19 (15.08%) PHP
6 16 (12.70%) C
7 12 (9.52%) Swift
8 7 (5.56%) Python
9 5 (3.97%) VB.NET
10 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.38%) Bash
11 3 (2.38%) Go
12 2 (1.59%) C++
12 2 (1.59%) F#
12 2 (1.59%) Groovy
12 2 (1.59%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.59%) Scala
12 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (22.22%) Degree
2 15 (11.90%) HND
3 7 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.79%) ISEB
5 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.25%) QA
System Software
1 15 (11.90%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (10.32%) Docker
3 4 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.17%) Grafana
3 3 (2.38%) Terraform
4 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.79%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) DevExpress
2 4 (3.17%) VMware
3 3 (2.38%) Google
3 3 (2.38%) Twitter
4 2 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (0.79%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) Telerik
5 1 (0.79%) Xamarin