SOLID Principles
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 406 300 234
Rank change year-on-year -106 -66 -3
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 361 1,473 2,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.20% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.25% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 326 985 1,237
10th Percentile £44,688 £45,480 £39,350
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,863 117,613 122,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.11% 95.75% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,022 72,003 82,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,680 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England -76 330 £60,000 -14.29% 147
UK excluding London -86 203 £55,000 -15.38% 110
Work from Home -51 175 £60,000 -7.69% 106
London -18 122 £72,500 -12.12% 54
South East +49 71 £55,000 -8.33% 38
Midlands +123 49 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East Midlands +78 44 £55,000 +10.00% 4
North of England -87 38 £60,000 -14.29% 33
North West -30 30 £60,000 -25.00% 18
South West +67 28 £50,000 -14.89% 14
Scotland -9 10 £53,500 -10.83% 3
Yorkshire -28 8 £49,636 -23.64% 12
West Midlands +100 5 £61,500 +2.50% 8
East of England +39 3 £80,000 -5.88% 6
Northern Ireland +20 3 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Wales +11 1 £55,000 +10.00% 3

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (9.97%) Confluence
2 14 (3.88%) IIS
3 5 (1.39%) CMS
3 5 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.55%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.28%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 8 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 194 (53.74%) Azure
2 113 (31.30%) Azure DevOps
3 85 (23.55%) AWS
4 52 (14.40%) Azure Service Bus
5 43 (11.91%) Serverless
6 20 (5.54%) SaaS
7 18 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (4.99%) GCP
8 16 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.43%) Azure API Management
9 15 (4.16%) Power Platform
10 13 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (3.60%) Azure Functions
10 13 (3.60%) GitHub
11 12 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (3.32%) Amazon Cognito
11 12 (3.32%) CloudFront
12 11 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (3.05%) PaaS
13 10 (2.77%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) ATM
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) FTP
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) Network Security
2 1 (0.28%) SSL
2 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (34.35%) SQL Server
2 35 (9.70%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.37%) Redis
4 22 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.71%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (3.60%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.22%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.66%) MySQL
11 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.83%) Power BI
13 2 (0.55%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.55%) Tableau
14 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.28%) Big Data
14 1 (0.28%) GIS
14 1 (0.28%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 67 (18.56%) Git
2 51 (14.13%) Postman
3 33 (9.14%) JIRA
4 32 (8.86%) Selenium
5 27 (7.48%) NUnit
6 23 (6.37%) SpecFlow
7 22 (6.09%) Visual Studio
8 16 (4.43%) Jenkins
9 15 (4.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (3.60%) MSTest
11 12 (3.32%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (3.05%) TeamCity
13 9 (2.49%) Bitbucket
13 9 (2.49%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.49%) JUnit
13 9 (2.49%) Maven
14 8 (2.22%) git-flow
14 8 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (1.94%) Tricentis qTest
16 6 (1.66%) webpack
General
1 100 (27.70%) Finance
2 34 (9.42%) Social Skills
3 22 (6.09%) Retail
4 18 (4.99%) Automotive
5 16 (4.43%) Banking
6 15 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.32%) Marketing
8 9 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (1.94%) Games
9 7 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.66%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.39%) Legal
11 5 (1.39%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.11%) Front Office
12 4 (1.11%) Law
13 3 (0.83%) Brand Awareness
14 2 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 283 (78.39%) Developer
2 117 (32.41%) Senior
3 112 (31.02%) .NET Developer
4 87 (24.10%) Senior Developer
5 82 (22.71%) Full Stack Developer
6 71 (19.67%) C# Developer
7 67 (18.56%) Software Developer
8 59 (16.34%) Lead
9 50 (13.85%) Senior .NET Developer
10 45 (12.47%) Lead Developer
11 34 (9.42%) C# Software Developer
12 25 (6.93%) .NET Software Developer
12 25 (6.93%) Software Engineer
13 23 (6.37%) C# .NET Developer
14 22 (6.09%) Senior Full Stack Developer
15 20 (5.54%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 20 (5.54%) Lead Software Developer
16 19 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
17 18 (4.99%) Azure Developer
18 13 (3.60%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (75.07%) .NET
2 154 (42.66%) .NET Core
3 119 (32.96%) React
4 115 (31.86%) AngularJS
5 105 (29.09%) .NET Framework
6 103 (28.53%) ASP.NET
7 99 (27.42%) CSS
8 96 (26.59%) HTML
9 85 (23.55%) REST
10 77 (21.33%) ASP.NET Web API
11 57 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
12 52 (14.40%) Entity Framework
13 44 (12.19%) jQuery
13 44 (12.19%) RESTful
14 43 (11.91%) LINQ
15 30 (8.31%) Vue
16 29 (8.03%) Kafka
17 27 (7.48%) HTML5
17 27 (7.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 23 (6.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.86%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (4.99%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.88%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.32%) IoT
6 11 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.49%) Housing Association
7 9 (2.49%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.39%) Derivative
8 5 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.39%) Raspberry Pi
9 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.83%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.83%) Graphic Design
10 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.83%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.55%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.55%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.20%) Windows
2 10 (2.77%) Linux
3 6 (1.66%) Android
4 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.55%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (59.00%) Agile
2 159 (44.04%) DevOps
3 157 (43.49%) TDD
4 129 (35.73%) Design Patterns
5 116 (32.13%) CI/CD
6 114 (31.58%) Microservices
7 109 (30.19%) Full Stack Development
8 95 (26.32%) MVC
9 81 (22.44%) Test Automation
10 68 (18.84%) Scrum
11 61 (16.90%) OO
11 61 (16.90%) Software Engineering
12 59 (16.34%) OOP
13 52 (14.40%) Unit Testing
14 51 (14.13%) SDLC
15 43 (11.91%) Continuous Integration
16 41 (11.36%) Clean Code
17 37 (10.25%) Dependency Injection
18 36 (9.97%) Mentoring
19 34 (9.42%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 297 (82.27%) C#
2 159 (44.04%) SQL
3 155 (42.94%) JavaScript
4 68 (18.84%) T-SQL
5 63 (17.45%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.93%) PHP
7 20 (5.54%) Java
8 11 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.77%) Python
10 7 (1.94%) C++
10 7 (1.94%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.66%) Bicep
11 6 (1.66%) XAML
12 5 (1.39%) Go
13 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.83%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.28%) C
16 1 (0.28%) Swift
16 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (6.65%) Degree
2 8 (2.22%) ISEB
2 8 (2.22%) ISTQB
3 7 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (1.94%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.66%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.91%) QA
2 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.11%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.11%) WCAG
3 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (11.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (11.91%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.99%) Terraform
3 9 (2.49%) Grafana
4 8 (2.22%) Kibana
5 5 (1.39%) Control-M
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 74 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.77%) Atlassian
2 10 (2.77%) Sitecore
3 8 (2.22%) Spotify
4 6 (1.66%) Oracle
5 5 (1.39%) Google
6 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.55%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.28%) Databricks
8 1 (0.28%) Facebook
8 1 (0.28%) Twitter
8 1 (0.28%) Zend