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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 323 301
Rank change year-on-year -126 -22 +49
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 140 578 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.81% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.97% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 126 316 542
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £56,334 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -9.87% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.40% +9.17%

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 37,041 59,787 56,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.90% 83.60% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,101 41,279 29,105
10th Percentile £26,875 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 18 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 18 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 -26 44 £57,500 -4.17% 58
North of England -62 42 £57,836 +0.58% 39
North West -90 33 £57,836 -3.61% 29
South West +50 20 £67,500 +22.73% 24
Scotland +89 12 £55,750 +1.36% 7
Midlands -42 10 £67,500 +35.00% 15
East of England +34 9 £65,000 +8.18% 14
West Midlands +24 9 £67,500 +19.82% 6
North East +32 6 £55,000 -0.31% 1
Yorkshire +47 3 £85,253 +48.27% 10
Wales +28 3 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -57 1 £42,500 -5.56% 8
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 2 (1.43%) IIS
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.71%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 40 (28.57%) Azure
2 39 (27.86%) AWS
3 19 (13.57%) SaaS
4 15 (10.71%) GCP
5 11 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.71%) GitHub
7 7 (5.00%) Serverless
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.71%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.71%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Internet
2 2 (1.43%) Broadband
3 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.57%) MySQL
3 9 (6.43%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.43%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.43%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.43%) OLTP
6 2 (1.43%) SQL CLR
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.71%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 23 (16.43%) Git
2 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.86%) JUnit
3 4 (2.86%) NUnit
3 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.14%) GitLab
4 3 (2.14%) Mockito
5 2 (1.43%) Moq
5 2 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.43%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.43%) Spock
5 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.71%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.71%) CMake
6 1 (0.71%) MSTest
6 1 (0.71%) Subversion
6 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.71%) webpack
6 1 (0.71%) WiX
6 1 (0.71%) xUnit.net
General
1 35 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.29%) Games
3 19 (13.57%) Finance
4 11 (7.86%) Aviation
5 7 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.29%) Retail
7 5 (3.57%) Banking
8 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.14%) Back Office
9 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.14%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (52.14%) Developer
2 40 (28.57%) Lead
2 40 (28.57%) Senior
3 32 (22.86%) Software Engineer
4 23 (16.43%) .NET Developer
5 20 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 19 (13.57%) Senior Developer
7 17 (12.14%) C# Developer
8 15 (10.71%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 15 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (10.00%) PHP Developer
10 13 (9.29%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (7.86%) iOS Developer
12 10 (7.14%) PHP Software Engineer
13 9 (6.43%) Lead Developer
14 7 (5.00%) Technical Leader
15 6 (4.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 6 (4.29%) Senior .NET Developer
15 6 (4.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 6 (4.29%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (41.43%) .NET
2 37 (26.43%) React
3 34 (24.29%) RESTful
4 25 (17.86%) CSS
5 24 (17.14%) .NET Core
6 21 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 21 (15.00%) HTML
7 16 (11.43%) .NET Framework
8 14 (10.00%) Kafka
8 14 (10.00%) Vue
9 11 (7.86%) Entity Framework
9 11 (7.86%) LAMP
9 11 (7.86%) Node.js
10 8 (5.71%) ASP.NET
10 8 (5.71%) jQuery
10 8 (5.71%) Web Services
11 7 (5.00%) React Native
12 6 (4.29%) REST
13 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (3.57%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Management Information System
2 17 (12.14%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.86%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.43%) Hackathon
6 2 (1.43%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.43%) Online Games
6 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.71%) Clustering
7 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.71%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.71%) NHS
7 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.57%) Linux
3 4 (2.86%) Android
4 3 (2.14%) Windows
5 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (61.43%) Agile
2 63 (45.00%) Software Engineering
3 52 (37.14%) TDD
4 41 (29.29%) Microservices
5 39 (27.86%) Mentoring
6 38 (27.14%) E-Commerce
7 35 (25.00%) Design Patterns
8 32 (22.86%) Unit Testing
9 29 (20.71%) DevOps
10 28 (20.00%) Line Management
11 27 (19.29%) CI/CD
12 26 (18.57%) Clean Code
13 21 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (14.29%) Containerisation
15 18 (12.86%) Test Automation
16 17 (12.14%) OO
16 17 (12.14%) Roadmaps
16 17 (12.14%) Technology Roadmap
17 16 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
18 15 (10.71%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 59 (42.14%) C#
2 39 (27.86%) JavaScript
3 33 (23.57%) PHP
4 24 (17.14%) SQL
4 24 (17.14%) TypeScript
5 23 (16.43%) Java
6 16 (11.43%) C
7 12 (8.57%) Swift
8 7 (5.00%) Python
9 3 (2.14%) Bash
9 3 (2.14%) Go
9 3 (2.14%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.14%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.43%) C++
10 2 (1.43%) F#
10 2 (1.43%) Groovy
10 2 (1.43%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.43%) Ruby
10 2 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (21.43%) Degree
2 15 (10.71%) HND
3 9 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.71%) ISEB
5 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.57%) QA
System Software
1 15 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (10.00%) Docker
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.86%) Grafana
3 3 (2.14%) Terraform
4 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Kibana
5 1 (0.71%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.86%) Google
3 3 (2.14%) Twitter
4 2 (1.43%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle
4 2 (1.43%) VMware
5 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.71%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.71%) SAP
5 1 (0.71%) Telerik