SOLID Principles
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 400 298
Rank change year-on-year -21 -102 -79
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 413 430 1,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.72% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.77% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 272 387 949
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,668 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.89% -4.00% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,410 56,130 135,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 94.41% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31,055 40,211 76,155
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £33,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £52,700 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.47% +0.38% +5.00%

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the UK

SOLID
Top 17 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 23 October 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
England -39 378 £60,000 -4.00% 119
UK excluding London +6 302 £57,668 -3.89% 85
Work from Home +17 189 £55,000 -8.33% 83
South East 0 117 £60,000 - 26
London -41 83 £72,500 +7.41% 42
North of England -22 61 £69,250 +15.42% 25
South West +26 52 £57,500 +15.00% 13
Midlands -39 49 £47,500 -13.64% 8
East Midlands -33 42 £46,250 -15.91% 6
North West -33 29 £70,000 +16.67% 25
Yorkshire +37 20 £52,500 +5.77%
Scotland -4 13 £60,000 +10.60% 5
North East -20 12 £55,000 -18.52%
West Midlands -36 7 £52,500 0.00% 2
Wales +43 6 £43,750 -20.45%
East of England -42 3 £55,000 -31.25% 7
Northern Ireland +24 1 £67,500 +35.00% 2

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 17 (4.12%) CMS
2 9 (2.18%) Confluence
3 8 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.45%) IIS
5 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.73%) Camunda
7 2 (0.48%) Drupal
7 2 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.24%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.21%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 200 (48.43%) Azure
2 113 (27.36%) AWS
3 94 (22.76%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (15.74%) SaaS
5 36 (8.72%) IBM Cloud
6 33 (7.99%) Serverless
7 24 (5.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (4.36%) GitHub
9 16 (3.87%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (3.15%) Azure Functions
10 13 (3.15%) GCP
11 11 (2.66%) Azure API Management
11 11 (2.66%) PaaS
12 10 (2.42%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) Network Security
2 3 (0.73%) HTTP
3 2 (0.48%) Wireless
4 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (21.55%) SQL Server
2 63 (15.25%) MySQL
3 60 (14.53%) NoSQL
4 52 (12.59%) MongoDB
5 48 (11.62%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (8.72%) DB2
7 26 (6.30%) Relational Database
8 16 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.66%) Redis
10 4 (0.97%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.73%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.73%) Power BI
12 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.48%) Big Data
12 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.24%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 113 (27.36%) Git
2 42 (10.17%) Visual Studio
3 30 (7.26%) JIRA
4 21 (5.08%) Jenkins
5 18 (4.36%) NUnit
6 17 (4.12%) Moq
7 16 (3.87%) MSTest
8 15 (3.63%) Postman
9 12 (2.91%) Bitbucket
10 11 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
10 11 (2.66%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.42%) Maven
12 9 (2.18%) Selenium
13 8 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.69%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.69%) SonarQube
15 6 (1.45%) JUnit
16 5 (1.21%) git-flow
16 5 (1.21%) Gradle
16 5 (1.21%) Jasmine
General
1 56 (13.56%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 35 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (8.47%) Finance
4 30 (7.26%) Law
5 23 (5.57%) Aviation
6 13 (3.15%) Multimedia
7 11 (2.66%) Tech for Good
8 8 (1.94%) Games
9 7 (1.69%) Front Office
10 6 (1.45%) Marketing
10 6 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.97%) Banking
11 4 (0.97%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.73%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Advertising
13 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 249 (60.29%) Developer
2 140 (33.90%) Senior
3 92 (22.28%) Senior Developer
4 81 (19.61%) Software Engineer
5 67 (16.22%) .NET Developer
6 64 (15.50%) C# Developer
7 54 (13.08%) Software Developer
8 45 (10.90%) Lead
9 39 (9.44%) Senior .NET Developer
10 37 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (8.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 33 (7.99%) Senior Software Engineer
13 25 (6.05%) C# Software Developer
14 24 (5.81%) Senior C# Developer
15 23 (5.57%) Web Developer
16 19 (4.60%) C# .NET Developer
16 19 (4.60%) PHP Developer
17 17 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
18 15 (3.63%) Azure Developer
18 15 (3.63%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (68.52%) .NET
2 149 (36.08%) React
3 144 (34.87%) AngularJS
4 122 (29.54%) HTML
5 120 (29.06%) ASP.NET
5 120 (29.06%) CSS
6 94 (22.76%) Web Services
7 93 (22.52%) .NET Framework
8 89 (21.55%) REST
9 81 (19.61%) RESTful
10 75 (18.16%) .NET Core
11 64 (15.50%) Entity Framework
12 63 (15.25%) Vue
13 57 (13.80%) ASP.NET Core
14 53 (12.83%) jQuery
15 44 (10.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 36 (8.72%) Backbone.js
16 36 (8.72%) Ember.js
17 35 (8.47%) Blazor
18 32 (7.75%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.14%) Algorithms
2 37 (8.96%) Blockchain
2 37 (8.96%) Data Structures
3 36 (8.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (7.26%) e-Learning
5 22 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (4.60%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.15%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (2.42%) Derivative
11 8 (1.94%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.69%) Blog
12 7 (1.69%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.69%) N-Tier
12 7 (1.69%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.45%) Onboarding
14 5 (1.21%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 73 (17.68%) Windows
2 65 (15.74%) Linux
3 57 (13.80%) Apple iOS
4 48 (11.62%) Android
5 5 (1.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (49.64%) Agile
2 148 (35.84%) Software Engineering
3 139 (33.66%) Design Patterns
4 131 (31.72%) MVC
5 127 (30.75%) DevOps
5 127 (30.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 115 (27.85%) TDD
7 108 (26.15%) OO
8 91 (22.03%) Mentoring
9 89 (21.55%) OOP
10 88 (21.31%) CI/CD
11 80 (19.37%) Microservices
12 77 (18.64%) Unit Testing
13 76 (18.40%) Web Development
14 64 (15.50%) Coaching
15 61 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
16 59 (14.29%) MVVM
17 54 (13.08%) Clean Code
18 51 (12.35%) Test Automation
19 49 (11.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 296 (71.67%) C#
2 178 (43.10%) JavaScript
3 169 (40.92%) SQL
4 65 (15.74%) TypeScript
5 57 (13.80%) Java
6 41 (9.93%) PHP
7 26 (6.30%) Python
8 25 (6.05%) C++
9 17 (4.12%) C
10 16 (3.87%) T-SQL
11 13 (3.15%) Swift
12 8 (1.94%) XAML
13 6 (1.45%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.21%) Ruby
14 5 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.21%) XPath
15 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.73%) Bicep
16 3 (0.73%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.48%) Go
Qualifications
1 50 (12.11%) Degree
2 29 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.66%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.42%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.73%) HND
7 3 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.08%) QA
2 8 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.94%) NCSC
3 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (9.69%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.94%) Terraform
3 3 (0.73%) Grafana
4 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.72%) IBM
2 36 (8.72%) Red Hat
3 8 (1.94%) Oracle
4 7 (1.69%) Bloomberg
4 7 (1.69%) Google
5 6 (1.45%) Adobe
6 5 (1.21%) Cognizant
6 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.73%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.48%) SAP
8 2 (0.48%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.24%) Splunk
9 1 (0.24%) Talend