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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 302 282
Rank change year-on-year -57 -20 -44
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 764 1,193 2,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 1.15% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.20% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 462 887 1,050
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% +3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,500 £92,625
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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 3 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 3 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 -34 698 £60,000 -14.29% 99
UK excluding London -16 578 £55,173 -11.72% 77
Work from Home -136 238 £57,500 -11.54% 71
South East -56 165 £60,000 -7.69% 18
London -59 155 £80,000 -0.18% 31
North of England +23 152 £57,500 -11.54% 28
North West +10 123 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Midlands +63 120 £51,250 -14.58% 14
East Midlands +50 87 £50,000 -11.11% 8
South West +15 80 £55,000 -2.22% 3
Scotland -53 34 £55,000 -8.33% 6
West Midlands +12 33 £56,337 -9.86% 6
Yorkshire +44 20 £57,500 -17.86% 5
East of England -36 12 £65,000 -23.53% 6
Wales +11 11 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North East -5 9 £55,173 +5.09% 3
Northern Ireland +16 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%) Confluence
3 5 (0.65%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.52%) Apache Spark
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
1 485 (63.48%) Azure
2 248 (32.46%) IBM Cloud
3 212 (27.75%) Azure DevOps
4 172 (22.51%) Azure Service Bus
4 172 (22.51%) Serverless
5 158 (20.68%) Azure Logic Apps
6 144 (18.85%) Azure Functions
7 143 (18.72%) Azure API Management
8 117 (15.31%) AWS
9 69 (9.03%) SaaS
10 26 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (3.40%) Power Platform
11 23 (3.01%) GCP
12 21 (2.75%) GitHub
13 14 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 14 (1.83%) NuGet
14 13 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) 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
1 263 (34.42%) NoSQL
2 255 (33.38%) PostgreSQL
3 246 (32.20%) MongoDB
4 238 (31.15%) DB2
5 151 (19.76%) Relational Database
6 125 (16.36%) SQL Server
7 38 (4.97%) MySQL
8 27 (3.53%) Redis
9 17 (2.23%) 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
1 152 (19.90%) Git
2 44 (5.76%) Visual Studio
3 39 (5.10%) Postman
4 35 (4.58%) JIRA
5 26 (3.40%) Jenkins
6 24 (3.14%) NUnit
7 22 (2.88%) Moq
7 22 (2.88%) TeamCity
8 21 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
9 19 (2.49%) Maven
9 19 (2.49%) Selenium
10 18 (2.36%) SpecFlow
11 17 (2.23%) GitLab
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%) REST Assured
General
1 261 (34.16%) Public Sector
2 149 (19.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 109 (14.27%) Social Skills
4 98 (12.83%) Finance
5 44 (5.76%) Games
6 32 (4.19%) Law
7 26 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (3.14%) Marketing
9 17 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.23%) Retail
10 11 (1.44%) Legal
11 9 (1.18%) Advertising
11 9 (1.18%) Banking
12 8 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.92%) Aviation
13 7 (0.92%) Military
13 7 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.92%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.79%) Publishing
15 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 495 (64.79%) Developer
2 175 (22.91%) Full Stack Developer
3 170 (22.25%) Senior
4 138 (18.06%) Azure Developer
5 120 (15.71%) Full Stack Engineer
6 118 (15.45%) .NET Developer
7 113 (14.79%) Azure Engineer
8 102 (13.35%) Senior Developer
9 85 (11.13%) C# Developer
10 79 (10.34%) Lead
11 75 (9.82%) Software Developer
12 62 (8.12%) Lead Developer
13 54 (7.07%) Software Engineer
14 46 (6.02%) Senior .NET Developer
15 38 (4.97%) Senior C# Developer
16 27 (3.53%) Architect
16 27 (3.53%) Technical Architect
17 26 (3.40%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 26 (3.40%) Power Platform Developer
18 24 (3.14%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 575 (75.26%) .NET
2 336 (43.98%) React
3 333 (43.59%) AngularJS
4 331 (43.32%) CSS
5 330 (43.19%) REST
6 329 (43.06%) HTML
7 327 (42.80%) ASP.NET
8 315 (41.23%) Web Services
9 277 (36.26%) Vue
10 269 (35.21%) jQuery
11 261 (34.16%) ASP.NET Core
12 257 (33.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (31.15%) Backbone.js
13 238 (31.15%) Ember.js
14 138 (18.06%) Node.js
15 137 (17.93%) .NET Core
16 106 (13.87%) .NET Framework
17 79 (10.34%) Entity Framework
18 66 (8.64%) RESTful
19 47 (6.15%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 254 (33.25%) 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 40 (5.24%) Product Ownership
7 36 (4.71%) 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 8 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.92%) Oculus
14 7 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
15 6 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
16 5 (0.65%) 3D Graphics
16 5 (0.65%) Public Cloud
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
1 413 (54.06%) MVC
2 392 (51.31%) Agile
3 388 (50.79%) Design Patterns
4 359 (46.99%) Full Stack Development
5 328 (42.93%) OO
6 321 (42.02%) OOP
7 291 (38.09%) DevOps
8 286 (37.43%) MVVM
9 285 (37.30%) User Experience
10 268 (35.08%) Web Development
11 260 (34.03%) Responsive Web Design
12 259 (33.90%) Artificial Intelligence
13 238 (31.15%) Co-Creation
13 238 (31.15%) Design Thinking
14 224 (29.32%) Mentoring
15 217 (28.40%) TDD
16 163 (21.34%) API Management
17 160 (20.94%) Code Quality
18 155 (20.29%) Coaching
19 142 (18.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 607 (79.45%) C#
2 432 (56.54%) JavaScript
3 421 (55.10%) SQL
4 199 (26.05%) Java
5 139 (18.19%) Python
6 96 (12.57%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.45%) PHP
8 33 (4.32%) T-SQL
9 26 (3.40%) C
10 23 (3.01%) VB.NET
11 21 (2.75%) XAML
12 20 (2.62%) C++
12 20 (2.62%) Kotlin
13 17 (2.23%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.83%) XPath
15 13 (1.70%) Ada
16 5 (0.65%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.65%) R
17 2 (0.26%) Ruby
17 2 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 95 (12.43%) Degree
2 31 (4.06%) Master's Degree
3 27 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (2.36%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.36%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.26%) CISSP
7 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.93%) QA
2 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.26%) SEPA
4 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (7.07%) Docker
2 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.09%) Terraform
3 5 (0.65%) Control-M
4 4 (0.52%) Kibana
5 2 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 248 (32.46%) IBM
1 248 (32.46%) Red Hat
2 131 (17.15%) 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 4 (0.52%) Splunk
9 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.39%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.39%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.26%) Northgate
11 1 (0.13%) Monzo
11 1 (0.13%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.13%) Twitter
11 1 (0.13%) Zend