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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 315 294
Rank change year-on-year -48 -21 -57
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 765 1,114 2,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 1.12% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.18% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 459 827 1,012
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +10.08% -0.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,334 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.87% +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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
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 18 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 18 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 -31 699 £60,000 -14.29% 137
UK excluding London -24 578 £56,334 -9.87% 102
Work from Home -130 235 £57,500 -11.54% 92
South East -51 165 £60,000 -14.29% 30
London -49 157 £80,000 - 52
North of England +46 155 £57,500 -4.17% 37
North West +16 123 £60,000 - 17
Midlands +40 117 £50,000 -16.67% 15
East Midlands +43 84 £45,000 -20.00% 7
South West +11 79 £55,000 - 3
Scotland -48 35 £55,000 -8.33% 8
West Midlands +9 33 £56,337 -9.86% 8
Yorkshire +60 22 £57,500 -17.86% 15
East of England -35 14 £60,087 -29.31% 5
Wales +13 11 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North East -4 10 £55,173 +5.09% 6
Northern Ireland +5 2 £52,250 +7.73% 1

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 23 (3.01%) 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
5 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.26%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 15 (1.96%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 16 (2.09%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 477 (62.35%) Azure
2 248 (32.42%) IBM Cloud
3 208 (27.19%) Azure DevOps
4 174 (22.75%) Serverless
5 166 (21.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 156 (20.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 142 (18.56%) Azure Functions
8 139 (18.17%) Azure API Management
9 121 (15.82%) AWS
10 73 (9.54%) SaaS
11 26 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (3.40%) Power Platform
12 23 (3.01%) GCP
13 20 (2.61%) GitHub
14 15 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 15 (1.96%) NuGet
15 13 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (1.18%) Amazon S3
18 8 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.78%) Network Security
2 3 (0.39%) Internet
2 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) HTTP
3 2 (0.26%) SSL
3 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (34.51%) NoSQL
2 254 (33.20%) PostgreSQL
3 243 (31.76%) MongoDB
4 238 (31.11%) DB2
5 149 (19.48%) Relational Database
6 122 (15.95%) SQL Server
7 40 (5.23%) MySQL
8 26 (3.40%) Redis
9 16 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.18%) GIS
11 6 (0.78%) Big Data
12 4 (0.52%) 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
1 162 (21.18%) Git
2 50 (6.54%) Visual Studio
3 36 (4.71%) JIRA
3 36 (4.71%) Postman
4 28 (3.66%) NUnit
5 25 (3.27%) Moq
6 24 (3.14%) Jenkins
7 21 (2.75%) TeamCity
8 20 (2.61%) Octopus Deploy
9 19 (2.48%) Maven
10 18 (2.35%) Selenium
10 18 (2.35%) SpecFlow
11 17 (2.22%) GitLab
12 15 (1.96%) Android Studio
12 15 (1.96%) git-flow
12 15 (1.96%) Sourcetree
13 11 (1.44%) CircleCI
14 10 (1.31%) MSTest
15 9 (1.18%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.92%) REST Assured
General
1 260 (33.99%) Public Sector
2 153 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 108 (14.12%) Social Skills
4 100 (13.07%) Finance
5 45 (5.88%) Games
6 39 (5.10%) Law
7 25 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (3.14%) Marketing
9 15 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.96%) Retail
10 10 (1.31%) Legal
11 9 (1.18%) Advertising
11 9 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.05%) Tech for Good
13 7 (0.92%) Aviation
13 7 (0.92%) Banking
13 7 (0.92%) Military
14 6 (0.78%) Front Office
14 6 (0.78%) Multimedia
14 6 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 491 (64.18%) Developer
2 178 (23.27%) Senior
3 172 (22.48%) Full Stack Developer
4 137 (17.91%) Azure Developer
5 120 (15.69%) Full Stack Engineer
6 115 (15.03%) .NET Developer
7 111 (14.51%) Azure Engineer
8 107 (13.99%) Senior Developer
9 88 (11.50%) C# Developer
10 76 (9.93%) Lead
10 76 (9.93%) Software Developer
11 61 (7.97%) Software Engineer
12 60 (7.84%) Lead Developer
13 48 (6.27%) Senior .NET Developer
14 43 (5.62%) Senior C# Developer
15 27 (3.53%) Architect
15 27 (3.53%) Technical Architect
16 26 (3.40%) C# .NET Developer
16 26 (3.40%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 26 (3.40%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (75.29%) .NET
2 338 (44.18%) React
3 333 (43.53%) CSS
4 331 (43.27%) HTML
5 330 (43.14%) REST
6 328 (42.88%) AngularJS
7 326 (42.61%) ASP.NET
8 317 (41.44%) Web Services
9 274 (35.82%) Vue
10 270 (35.29%) jQuery
11 262 (34.25%) ASP.NET Core
12 259 (33.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 238 (31.11%) Backbone.js
13 238 (31.11%) Ember.js
14 137 (17.91%) .NET Core
14 137 (17.91%) Node.js
15 114 (14.90%) .NET Framework
16 85 (11.11%) Entity Framework
17 71 (9.28%) RESTful
18 45 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 257 (33.59%) Algorithms
2 249 (32.55%) Blockchain
3 248 (32.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 240 (31.37%) Data Structures
5 121 (15.82%) e-Learning
6 40 (5.23%) Product Ownership
7 34 (4.44%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.79%) Cloud Native
8 29 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.09%) Legacy Code
10 13 (1.70%) Client/Server
11 12 (1.57%) IoT
11 12 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.92%) Oculus
13 7 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
14 6 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.78%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 277 (36.21%) Windows
2 262 (34.25%) Android
3 260 (33.99%) Linux
4 243 (31.76%) Apple iOS
5 20 (2.61%) Unix
6 5 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (53.46%) MVC
2 394 (51.50%) Agile
3 387 (50.59%) Design Patterns
4 363 (47.45%) Full Stack Development
5 333 (43.53%) OO
6 325 (42.48%) OOP
7 287 (37.52%) MVVM
8 285 (37.25%) User Experience
9 283 (36.99%) DevOps
10 271 (35.42%) Web Development
11 261 (34.12%) Responsive Web Design
12 258 (33.73%) Artificial Intelligence
13 238 (31.11%) Co-Creation
13 238 (31.11%) Design Thinking
14 228 (29.80%) Mentoring
15 215 (28.10%) TDD
16 162 (21.18%) Code Quality
17 159 (20.78%) API Management
18 157 (20.52%) Coaching
19 156 (20.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 608 (79.48%) C#
2 435 (56.86%) JavaScript
3 417 (54.51%) SQL
4 202 (26.41%) Java
5 141 (18.43%) Python
6 100 (13.07%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.44%) PHP
8 29 (3.79%) T-SQL
9 26 (3.40%) C
10 23 (3.01%) VB.NET
11 20 (2.61%) C++
11 20 (2.61%) Kotlin
12 19 (2.48%) XAML
13 17 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.96%) XPath
15 13 (1.70%) Ada
16 4 (0.52%) R
17 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
18 2 (0.26%) Ruby
18 2 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 98 (12.81%) Degree
2 32 (4.18%) Master's Degree
3 29 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.22%) 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 (4.05%) QA
2 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.26%) SEPA
4 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (6.67%) Docker
2 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 36 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.70%) Terraform
3 4 (0.52%) Kibana
4 3 (0.39%) Control-M
5 2 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 248 (32.42%) IBM
1 248 (32.42%) Red Hat
2 128 (16.73%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.35%) Adobe
4 15 (1.96%) Cognizant
5 12 (1.57%) Google
6 9 (1.18%) Xamarin
7 8 (1.05%) Databricks
8 6 (0.78%) Bloomberg
8 6 (0.78%) Oracle
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