SOLID Jobs in the West Midlands

SOLID Principles
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 241 245
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 -64
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 33 37 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.46% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.57% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 29 36 34
10th Percentile £45,250 £55,371 £36,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,750 £43,687
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,173 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% +13.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,188
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £90,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,016 6,455 6,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.85% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,272 4,743
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,510 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SOLID in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Birmingham -17 23 £57,500 -8.00% 5
Staffordshire -12 4 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Warwickshire - 3 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (9.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 24 (72.73%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (18.18%) SaaS
4 6 (18.18%) Serverless
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (12.12%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
6 3 (9.09%) Figma
7 2 (6.06%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Maven
3 3 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Law
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (69.70%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Senior
2 9 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 7 (21.21%) .NET Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Web Developer
4 5 (15.15%) C# Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Java Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 4 (12.12%) Power Platform Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Backend Developer
6 3 (9.09%) PHP Developer
6 3 (9.09%) PHP Web Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (60.61%) .NET
2 16 (48.48%) REST
3 14 (42.42%) Entity Framework
4 13 (39.39%) CSS
4 13 (39.39%) HTML
5 11 (33.33%) Web Services
6 9 (27.27%) React
6 9 (27.27%) Vue
7 7 (21.21%) ASP.NET
7 7 (21.21%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (18.18%) jQuery
8 6 (18.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 5 (15.15%) .NET Framework
9 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (15.15%) OAuth
9 5 (15.15%) Spring
10 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (12.12%) CSS3
10 4 (12.12%) KnockoutJS
10 4 (12.12%) MassTransit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Design Patterns
2 13 (39.39%) Web Development
3 12 (36.36%) DevOps
3 12 (36.36%) MVC
4 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (33.33%) Microservices
5 10 (30.30%) OO
5 10 (30.30%) OOP
6 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 9 (27.27%) TDD
7 8 (24.24%) Unit Testing
8 7 (21.21%) API Design
9 6 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (18.18%) OOD
9 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
10 5 (15.15%) Full Stack Development
11 4 (12.12%) API Management
11 4 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
11 4 (12.12%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 21 (63.64%) C#
3 14 (42.42%) SQL
4 10 (30.30%) TypeScript
5 5 (15.15%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) T-SQL
6 4 (12.12%) VB.NET
7 3 (9.09%) PHP
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Adobe