SOLID Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SOLID Principles
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 358 225
Rank change year-on-year +75 -133 +52
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 136 238 646
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 0.70% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.77% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 115 229 546
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,125 £65,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,250 £98,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year - -8.40% +9.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOLID trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SOLID.

SOLID salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SOLID over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

SOLID salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (2.94%) IIS
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.21%) CMS
2 3 (2.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.03%) AWS
2 32 (23.53%) Azure
3 31 (22.79%) GCP
4 21 (15.44%) GitHub
5 18 (13.24%) SaaS
6 14 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.94%) Serverless
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) Internet
2 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.44%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.03%) MySQL
3 14 (10.29%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.41%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.94%) Data Hub
6 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.94%) SQL CLR
7 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.74%) MS Access
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.74%) SQLite
7 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (27.94%) Git
2 14 (10.29%) Gradle
3 11 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.41%) Maven
6 5 (3.68%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.21%) GitLab
7 3 (2.21%) Jasmine
7 3 (2.21%) JUnit
7 3 (2.21%) Mocha
7 3 (2.21%) Mockito
7 3 (2.21%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.74%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.74%) CMake
9 1 (0.74%) Moq
9 1 (0.74%) MSTest
9 1 (0.74%) Subversion
9 1 (0.74%) WiX
9 1 (0.74%) xUnit.net
General
1 49 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 39 (28.68%) Games
3 22 (16.18%) Finance
4 17 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.15%) Banking
8 6 (4.41%) Retail
9 5 (3.68%) Back Office
10 4 (2.94%) Marketing
11 1 (0.74%) Automotive
11 1 (0.74%) Electronics
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (53.68%) Developer
2 50 (36.76%) Senior
3 45 (33.09%) Software Engineer
4 33 (24.26%) Lead
5 25 (18.38%) Senior Developer
6 23 (16.91%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (13.97%) .NET Developer
7 19 (13.97%) C# Developer
8 14 (10.29%) C# .NET Developer
8 14 (10.29%) PHP Developer
9 12 (8.82%) Lead Developer
10 11 (8.09%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (7.35%) PHP Software Engineer
12 9 (6.62%) iOS Developer
13 8 (5.88%) Java Engineer
13 8 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (5.15%) Android Developer
14 7 (5.15%) Lead Android Developer
14 7 (5.15%) Lead iOS Developer
14 7 (5.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (40.44%) .NET
2 45 (33.09%) RESTful
3 34 (25.00%) React
4 29 (21.32%) AngularJS
5 23 (16.91%) HTML
6 22 (16.18%) .NET Core
6 22 (16.18%) CSS
7 21 (15.44%) Spring
8 17 (12.50%) Kafka
9 14 (10.29%) Vue
10 13 (9.56%) .NET Framework
11 11 (8.09%) Entity Framework
12 10 (7.35%) jQuery
13 9 (6.62%) ASP.NET
13 9 (6.62%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (5.88%) Django
14 8 (5.88%) LAMP
14 8 (5.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 8 (5.88%) Web Services
15 6 (4.41%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (10.29%) Mobile Games
3 13 (9.56%) Cloud Native
3 13 (9.56%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.47%) Hackathon
6 2 (1.47%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.74%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) NHS
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.09%) Android
2 10 (7.35%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.68%) Windows
4 4 (2.94%) Linux
4 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (76.47%) Agile
2 79 (58.09%) Software Engineering
3 53 (38.97%) Mentoring
4 50 (36.76%) TDD
5 49 (36.03%) Design Patterns
6 45 (33.09%) Unit Testing
7 42 (30.88%) DevOps
7 42 (30.88%) Microservices
8 38 (27.94%) E-Commerce
9 36 (26.47%) Clean Code
10 32 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (20.59%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (19.12%) CI/CD
13 25 (18.38%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 21 (15.44%) Test Automation
15 19 (13.97%) API Development
15 19 (13.97%) Computer Science
15 19 (13.97%) Migration
16 18 (13.24%) Coaching
17 17 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 54 (39.71%) C#
2 37 (27.21%) JavaScript
3 35 (25.74%) Java
4 31 (22.79%) PHP
5 24 (17.65%) SQL
6 17 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 15 (11.03%) Python
8 10 (7.35%) Objective-C
8 10 (7.35%) Swift
9 9 (6.62%) Kotlin
10 7 (5.15%) Ruby
11 3 (2.21%) Go
12 2 (1.47%) Elixir
12 2 (1.47%) F#
12 2 (1.47%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.47%) Scala
12 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.47%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.74%) C
13 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (15.44%) Degree
2 16 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.09%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.41%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.56%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (17.65%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (19.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.41%) Argo
2 6 (4.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.29%) New Relic
2 11 (8.09%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.62%) Google
4 4 (2.94%) VMware
5 3 (2.21%) Twitter
6 1 (0.74%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.74%) SAP
6 1 (0.74%) Telerik