SOLID Jobs with Work from Home Options

SOLID Principles
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 234 290
Rank change year-on-year -139 +56 -77
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 235 600 928
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.69% 1.48% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.54% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 227 507 568
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% +1.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,859 38,849 68,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.22% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,373 27,016 41,283
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

SOLID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOLID trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SOLID over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 9 (3.83%) IIS
2 6 (2.55%) CMS
3 5 (2.13%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.70%) WordPress
5 3 (1.28%) Apache
5 3 (1.28%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.28%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 125 (53.19%) Azure
2 70 (29.79%) AWS
3 56 (23.83%) SaaS
4 29 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.94%) GCP
6 13 (5.53%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (5.11%) GitHub
8 9 (3.83%) Serverless
9 4 (1.70%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.28%) Figma
10 3 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.43%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (26.38%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 14 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.83%) GIS
4 9 (3.83%) MySQL
5 4 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.28%) Redis
6 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.85%) SQLite
8 1 (0.43%) Big Data
8 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.43%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 72 (30.64%) Git
2 25 (10.64%) Visual Studio
3 20 (8.51%) Postman
4 10 (4.26%) Maven
5 9 (3.83%) JIRA
5 9 (3.83%) Selenium
6 8 (3.40%) Android Studio
7 7 (2.98%) Jenkins
8 6 (2.55%) JMeter
8 6 (2.55%) Newman
8 6 (2.55%) REST Assured
9 5 (2.13%) JUnit
9 5 (2.13%) Moq
10 4 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.28%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.28%) xUnit.net
12 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.62%) Finance
3 19 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.68%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.98%) Law
6 7 (2.98%) Retail
7 6 (2.55%) Games
7 6 (2.55%) Legal
7 6 (2.55%) Publishing
8 5 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.70%) Banking
9 4 (1.70%) Marketing
9 4 (1.70%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Aviation
11 2 (0.85%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 156 (66.38%) Developer
2 71 (30.21%) Senior
3 57 (24.26%) .NET Developer
4 45 (19.15%) Senior Developer
5 41 (17.45%) Software Developer
6 35 (14.89%) C# Developer
7 30 (12.77%) Software Engineer
8 26 (11.06%) Architect
8 26 (11.06%) Technical Architect
9 24 (10.21%) Lead
10 21 (8.94%) PHP Developer
11 19 (8.09%) Senior .NET Developer
12 15 (6.38%) C# .NET Developer
12 15 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (5.96%) Lead Developer
14 13 (5.53%) .NET Software Developer
15 12 (5.11%) Android Developer
15 12 (5.11%) Senior C# Developer
15 12 (5.11%) VB.NET Developer
16 11 (4.68%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (59.57%) .NET
2 77 (32.77%) .NET Core
3 58 (24.68%) CSS
4 57 (24.26%) HTML
5 48 (20.43%) AngularJS
6 46 (19.57%) REST
7 39 (16.60%) ASP.NET
8 36 (15.32%) Entity Framework
9 34 (14.47%) React
9 34 (14.47%) RESTful
10 32 (13.62%) .NET Framework
11 26 (11.06%) Spring
11 26 (11.06%) Vue
12 25 (10.64%) Web Services
13 24 (10.21%) Laravel
14 19 (8.09%) ASP.NET Web API
15 18 (7.66%) ASP.NET Core
16 15 (6.38%) ASP.NET MVC
17 14 (5.96%) CSS3
17 14 (5.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.19%) Product Ownership
2 26 (11.06%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.53%) Client/Server
4 11 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.68%) IoT
5 9 (3.83%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.85%) Digital Currency
9 2 (0.85%) Kindle
9 2 (0.85%) NHS
9 2 (0.85%) Oculus
9 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (0.43%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.53%) Android
1 13 (5.53%) Windows
2 6 (2.55%) Unix
3 5 (2.13%) Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (53.19%) Agile
2 99 (42.13%) TDD
3 96 (40.85%) Microservices
4 89 (37.87%) Design Patterns
5 86 (36.60%) Unit Testing
6 77 (32.77%) MVC
7 70 (29.79%) DevOps
8 56 (23.83%) Software Engineering
9 55 (23.40%) OOP
10 45 (19.15%) Scrum
11 41 (17.45%) CI/CD
12 39 (16.60%) Mentoring
13 38 (16.17%) Full Stack Development
14 34 (14.47%) Test Automation
15 33 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (14.04%) OO
16 29 (12.34%) Software Architecture
17 25 (10.64%) Computer Science
17 25 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
18 24 (10.21%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 166 (70.64%) C#
2 95 (40.43%) JavaScript
3 78 (33.19%) SQL
4 35 (14.89%) TypeScript
5 34 (14.47%) Java
6 25 (10.64%) PHP
7 22 (9.36%) VB.NET
8 13 (5.53%) Ada
9 12 (5.11%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.68%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.98%) C++
12 6 (2.55%) C
12 6 (2.55%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.13%) Python
14 3 (1.28%) R
15 2 (0.85%) Scala
16 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (16.60%) Degree
2 18 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.83%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.83%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) QA
2 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.85%) SEPA
3 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (14.47%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.13%) Terraform
3 3 (1.28%) Kibana
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 70 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.11%) Google
3 9 (3.83%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.28%) Adobe
4 3 (1.28%) Databricks
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle
4 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.85%) Northgate
6 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.43%) Zend