SOLID Jobs in Wales

SOLID Principles
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 125 134
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -50
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 11 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.55% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.44% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 5
10th Percentile - £46,800 £29,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +17.98%
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £68,000 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,605 1,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.72% 96.11% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 814 1,128
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,391 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,644 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Wales

SOLID
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for SOLID in Wales

SOLID
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOLID in Wales

SOLID
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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 Wales +8 6 £70,000 +27.27% 4
North Wales - 5 £40,000 - 2
SOLID
UK

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Drupal
2 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitKraken
2 1 (9.09%) JetBrains Rider
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
2 1 (9.09%) ReSharper
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Integration Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Core
3 5 (45.45%) AngularJS
3 5 (45.45%) React
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
4 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 2 (18.18%) Kafka
5 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (9.09%) Blazor
5 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
5 1 (9.09%) HTML
5 1 (9.09%) Laravel
5 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) Sass
5 1 (9.09%) Spring
5 1 (9.09%) Symfony
5 1 (9.09%) Xamarin.iOS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Clean Code
2 6 (54.55%) Domain-Driven Design
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Software Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) OWASP
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kibana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Xamarin