SOLID Jobs in the UK excluding London

SOLID Principles
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 295 348
Rank change year-on-year -20 +53 -121
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 560 685 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.11% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.16% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 312 590 563
10th Percentile £39,550 £46,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,173 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.77% +10.83% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,145 59,105 66,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 95.64% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 30,311 41,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
South East -43 157 £60,000 -7.69% 19
North of England +16 151 £57,500 -11.54% 29
North West +17 123 £57,500 -11.54% 21
Midlands +56 114 £50,000 -16.67% 14
East Midlands +40 81 £50,000 -9.09% 8
South West +32 77 £55,000 - 5
Scotland -53 34 £55,000 -8.33% 7
West Midlands +22 33 £55,173 -11.72% 6
Yorkshire +53 20 £57,500 -17.86% 5
East of England -41 12 £65,000 -23.53% 7
Wales +17 11 £45,000 -18.18% 6
North East -4 8 £55,173 +5.09% 5
Northern Ireland +19 4 £55,000 +13.40%
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 7 (1.25%) CMS
2 5 (0.89%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.71%) WordPress
4 3 (0.54%) Apache
4 3 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.54%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.54%) Confluence
4 3 (0.54%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.36%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.36%) IIS
5 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) Drupal
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 368 (65.71%) Azure
2 223 (39.82%) IBM Cloud
3 143 (25.54%) Azure DevOps
4 132 (23.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 128 (22.86%) Serverless
6 120 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 115 (20.54%) Azure API Management
8 112 (20.00%) Azure Functions
9 59 (10.54%) AWS
10 55 (9.82%) SaaS
11 17 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (3.04%) Power Platform
12 12 (2.14%) GCP
12 12 (2.14%) GitHub
13 6 (1.07%) Azure App Service
13 6 (1.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.71%) PaaS
15 3 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (0.54%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.36%) DNS
1 2 (0.36%) Network Security
1 2 (0.36%) SSL
1 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (40.18%) NoSQL
1 225 (40.18%) PostgreSQL
2 215 (38.39%) MongoDB
3 213 (38.04%) DB2
4 126 (22.50%) Relational Database
5 66 (11.79%) SQL Server
6 14 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (1.96%) MySQL
8 9 (1.61%) GIS
9 4 (0.71%) Big Data
10 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (15.18%) Git
2 23 (4.11%) Visual Studio
3 22 (3.93%) Postman
4 18 (3.21%) JIRA
5 17 (3.04%) Maven
6 16 (2.86%) Jenkins
7 13 (2.32%) Selenium
8 11 (1.96%) Android Studio
8 11 (1.96%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.96%) GitLab
9 8 (1.43%) NUnit
10 6 (1.07%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.07%) JMeter
10 6 (1.07%) Newman
10 6 (1.07%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.89%) Moq
12 4 (0.71%) MSTest
12 4 (0.71%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.54%) xUnit.net
General
1 225 (40.18%) Public Sector
2 128 (22.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 70 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 66 (11.79%) Finance
5 27 (4.82%) Law
6 18 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.50%) Retail
8 13 (2.32%) Games
9 8 (1.43%) Marketing
10 7 (1.25%) Aviation
10 7 (1.25%) Military
10 7 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.07%) Legal
11 6 (1.07%) Publishing
11 6 (1.07%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.54%) Automotive
13 3 (0.54%) Banking
13 3 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.36%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 349 (62.32%) Developer
2 124 (22.14%) Full Stack Developer
3 110 (19.64%) Azure Developer
3 110 (19.64%) Full Stack Engineer
4 106 (18.93%) Azure Engineer
4 106 (18.93%) Senior
5 68 (12.14%) .NET Developer
6 64 (11.43%) Software Developer
7 59 (10.54%) Senior Developer
8 50 (8.93%) Lead
9 46 (8.21%) C# Developer
10 39 (6.96%) Lead Developer
11 38 (6.79%) Software Engineer
12 30 (5.36%) Senior .NET Developer
13 22 (3.93%) C# .NET Developer
14 21 (3.75%) .NET Software Developer
14 21 (3.75%) PHP Developer
15 19 (3.39%) Senior C# Developer
16 17 (3.04%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 17 (3.04%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (76.25%) .NET
2 277 (49.46%) HTML
3 276 (49.29%) REST
4 275 (49.11%) CSS
5 270 (48.21%) AngularJS
6 269 (48.04%) React
7 259 (46.25%) Web Services
8 248 (44.29%) Vue
9 244 (43.57%) ASP.NET
10 229 (40.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 227 (40.54%) jQuery
12 222 (39.64%) ASP.NET Core
13 213 (38.04%) Backbone.js
13 213 (38.04%) Ember.js
14 119 (21.25%) Node.js
15 97 (17.32%) .NET Core
16 65 (11.61%) .NET Framework
17 41 (7.32%) Entity Framework
17 41 (7.32%) RESTful
18 33 (5.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 224 (40.00%) Blockchain
2 223 (39.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 214 (38.21%) Algorithms
4 213 (38.04%) Data Structures
5 112 (20.00%) e-Learning
6 28 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.75%) Cloud Native
8 20 (3.57%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.32%) IoT
10 10 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.61%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.25%) Oculus
13 7 (1.25%) Virtual Reality
14 6 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.89%) Public Cloud
16 3 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
17 2 (0.36%) 3D Graphics
17 2 (0.36%) Kindle
17 2 (0.36%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 242 (43.21%) Windows
2 233 (41.61%) Linux
3 228 (40.71%) Android
4 215 (38.39%) Apple iOS
5 19 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (59.29%) Design Patterns
1 332 (59.29%) MVC
2 290 (51.79%) Full Stack Development
3 282 (50.36%) OOP
4 269 (48.04%) Agile
5 256 (45.71%) OO
6 255 (45.54%) MVVM
7 253 (45.18%) User Experience
8 237 (42.32%) Web Development
9 228 (40.71%) Artificial Intelligence
10 222 (39.64%) Responsive Web Design
11 213 (38.04%) Co-Creation
11 213 (38.04%) Design Thinking
12 203 (36.25%) DevOps
13 182 (32.50%) Mentoring
14 153 (27.32%) TDD
15 144 (25.71%) Code Quality
16 129 (23.04%) Coaching
17 126 (22.50%) API Management
18 109 (19.46%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 445 (79.46%) C#
2 348 (62.14%) JavaScript
3 327 (58.39%) SQL
4 159 (28.39%) Java
5 115 (20.54%) Python
6 52 (9.29%) TypeScript
7 32 (5.71%) PHP
8 25 (4.46%) C
9 19 (3.39%) C++
9 19 (3.39%) T-SQL
9 19 (3.39%) VB.NET
10 16 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.68%) XAML
12 14 (2.50%) Kotlin
13 13 (2.32%) Ada
14 2 (0.36%) Ruby
14 2 (0.36%) Scala
15 1 (0.18%) Swift
15 1 (0.18%) VBA
15 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (6.79%) Degree
2 11 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.36%) CISSP
5 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.57%) QA
2 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.18%) SEPA
3 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (4.82%) Docker
2 4 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 20 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.43%) Terraform
3 3 (0.54%) Kibana
4 1 (0.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 223 (39.82%) IBM
1 223 (39.82%) Red Hat
2 96 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.61%) Xamarin
4 6 (1.07%) Oracle
5 4 (0.71%) Adobe
5 4 (0.71%) Databricks
6 3 (0.54%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.54%) Google
6 3 (0.54%) Splunk
7 2 (0.36%) Northgate
8 1 (0.18%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.18%) Twitter
8 1 (0.18%) Zend