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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 305 291
Rank change year-on-year -46 -14 -53
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 764 1,151 2,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 1.13% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.19% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 460 853 1,031
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,173 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.72% +13.64% +4.76%

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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -39 697 £60,000 -11.11% 111
UK excluding London -24 576 £55,173 -11.72% 87
Work from Home -144 236 £57,500 -11.54% 86
South East -56 163 £60,000 -7.69% 17
London -50 158 £80,000 - 36
North of England +21 152 £57,500 -11.54% 36
North West +14 122 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Midlands +58 119 £52,500 -12.50% 12
East Midlands +43 86 £50,000 -11.11% 6
South West +12 80 £55,000 -2.22% 5
Scotland -44 35 £55,000 -8.33% 9
West Midlands +9 33 £56,337 -9.86% 6
Yorkshire +51 21 £57,500 -17.86% 14
East of England -35 12 £65,000 -23.53% 6
Wales +14 11 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North East -1 9 £55,173 +5.09% 2
Northern Ireland +14 4 £55,000 +13.40%

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 21 (2.75%) CMS
2 14 (1.83%) IIS
3 5 (0.65%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.52%) Confluence
4 4 (0.52%) WordPress
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.39%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.26%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (1.83%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 15 (1.96%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 480 (62.83%) Azure
2 248 (32.46%) IBM Cloud
3 209 (27.36%) Azure DevOps
4 174 (22.77%) Serverless
5 169 (22.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 157 (20.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 143 (18.72%) Azure Functions
8 141 (18.46%) Azure API Management
9 120 (15.71%) AWS
10 69 (9.03%) SaaS
11 26 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (3.40%) Power Platform
12 23 (3.01%) GCP
13 21 (2.75%) GitHub
14 14 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 14 (1.83%) NuGet
15 13 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (1.05%) Amazon S3
18 7 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Internet
2 3 (0.39%) Network Security
2 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) SSL
3 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (34.69%) NoSQL
2 254 (33.25%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (31.94%) MongoDB
4 238 (31.15%) DB2
5 150 (19.63%) Relational Database
6 124 (16.23%) SQL Server
7 40 (5.24%) MySQL
8 27 (3.53%) Redis
9 16 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.18%) GIS
11 6 (0.79%) Big Data
12 5 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.26%) SQLite
15 1 (0.13%) Neo4j
15 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 155 (20.29%) Git
2 45 (5.89%) Visual Studio
3 37 (4.84%) Postman
4 35 (4.58%) JIRA
5 25 (3.27%) Jenkins
6 23 (3.01%) Moq
6 23 (3.01%) NUnit
7 21 (2.75%) TeamCity
8 20 (2.62%) Octopus Deploy
9 19 (2.49%) Maven
10 18 (2.36%) SpecFlow
11 17 (2.23%) GitLab
11 17 (2.23%) Selenium
12 15 (1.96%) Android Studio
13 14 (1.83%) git-flow
13 14 (1.83%) Sourcetree
14 11 (1.44%) CircleCI
15 9 (1.18%) Bitbucket
16 8 (1.05%) MSTest
17 7 (0.92%) JUnit
General
1 260 (34.03%) Public Sector
2 152 (19.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 108 (14.14%) Social Skills
4 99 (12.96%) Finance
5 45 (5.89%) Games
6 35 (4.58%) Law
7 25 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (3.01%) Marketing
9 16 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.09%) Retail
10 11 (1.44%) Legal
11 9 (1.18%) Advertising
12 8 (1.05%) Banking
12 8 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.92%) Aviation
13 7 (0.92%) Military
13 7 (0.92%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.79%) Front Office
14 6 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 492 (64.40%) Developer
2 173 (22.64%) Full Stack Developer
2 173 (22.64%) Senior
3 137 (17.93%) Azure Developer
4 120 (15.71%) Full Stack Engineer
5 115 (15.05%) .NET Developer
6 112 (14.66%) Azure Engineer
7 102 (13.35%) Senior Developer
8 84 (10.99%) C# Developer
9 80 (10.47%) Lead
10 74 (9.69%) Software Developer
11 62 (8.12%) Lead Developer
12 57 (7.46%) Software Engineer
13 46 (6.02%) Senior .NET Developer
14 38 (4.97%) Senior C# Developer
15 27 (3.53%) Architect
15 27 (3.53%) Technical Architect
16 26 (3.40%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 26 (3.40%) Power Platform Developer
17 24 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 577 (75.52%) .NET
2 336 (43.98%) React
3 333 (43.59%) CSS
4 332 (43.46%) AngularJS
5 331 (43.32%) HTML
6 329 (43.06%) ASP.NET
6 329 (43.06%) REST
7 315 (41.23%) Web Services
8 276 (36.13%) Vue
9 269 (35.21%) jQuery
10 262 (34.29%) ASP.NET Core
11 258 (33.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 238 (31.15%) Backbone.js
12 238 (31.15%) Ember.js
13 138 (18.06%) .NET Core
13 138 (18.06%) Node.js
14 109 (14.27%) .NET Framework
15 79 (10.34%) Entity Framework
16 67 (8.77%) RESTful
17 46 (6.02%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 255 (33.38%) Algorithms
2 249 (32.59%) Blockchain
3 248 (32.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 240 (31.41%) Data Structures
5 121 (15.84%) e-Learning
6 41 (5.37%) Product Ownership
7 35 (4.58%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.66%) Cloud Native
8 28 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.96%) Legacy Code
10 13 (1.70%) Client/Server
10 13 (1.70%) IoT
11 12 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.92%) Oculus
13 7 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
14 6 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (0.65%) Hedge funds
15 5 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 276 (36.13%) Windows
2 262 (34.29%) Android
3 260 (34.03%) Linux
4 243 (31.81%) Apple iOS
5 20 (2.62%) Unix
6 5 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (53.80%) MVC
2 390 (51.05%) Agile
3 387 (50.65%) Design Patterns
4 359 (46.99%) Full Stack Development
5 331 (43.32%) OO
6 324 (42.41%) OOP
7 286 (37.43%) MVVM
8 285 (37.30%) DevOps
8 285 (37.30%) User Experience
9 269 (35.21%) Web Development
10 260 (34.03%) Responsive Web Design
11 259 (33.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 238 (31.15%) Co-Creation
12 238 (31.15%) Design Thinking
13 226 (29.58%) Mentoring
14 215 (28.14%) TDD
15 161 (21.07%) API Management
16 160 (20.94%) Code Quality
17 157 (20.55%) Coaching
18 148 (19.37%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 608 (79.58%) C#
2 435 (56.94%) JavaScript
3 420 (54.97%) SQL
4 201 (26.31%) Java
5 142 (18.59%) Python
6 101 (13.22%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.32%) PHP
8 31 (4.06%) T-SQL
9 26 (3.40%) C
10 23 (3.01%) VB.NET
11 20 (2.62%) C++
11 20 (2.62%) Kotlin
11 20 (2.62%) XAML
12 17 (2.23%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.83%) XPath
14 13 (1.70%) Ada
15 5 (0.65%) R
16 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.26%) Ruby
17 2 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (12.57%) Degree
2 32 (4.19%) Master's Degree
3 28 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.23%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.23%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.26%) CISSP
7 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.06%) QA
2 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.26%) SEPA
4 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (6.81%) Docker
2 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 38 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.96%) Terraform
3 4 (0.52%) Control-M
3 4 (0.52%) Kibana
4 2 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 248 (32.46%) IBM
1 248 (32.46%) Red Hat
2 130 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.23%) Adobe
4 14 (1.83%) Cognizant
5 12 (1.57%) Google
6 9 (1.18%) Databricks
6 9 (1.18%) Xamarin
7 6 (0.79%) Oracle
8 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.52%) Splunk
10 3 (0.39%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.39%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.26%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.26%) Northgate
12 1 (0.13%) Monzo
12 1 (0.13%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.13%) Twitter
12 1 (0.13%) Zend