SOLID Contracts in Manchester

SOLID Principles
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring SOLID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOLID over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 82 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing SOLID 6 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.59% 0.75% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.86% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £528 £444 £443
25th Percentile £550 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £584 £493 £528
90th Percentile £586 £585 £584
North West median daily rate £575 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

SOLID falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 897 1,042 1,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.81% 86.91% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 655 1,166
10th Percentile £302 £343 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £708 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 48 58
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.98 £14.46
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.07
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +101.30% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £38.44
90th Percentile £77.00 £86.00 £67.20
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £34.61 £30.76
% change year-on-year -21.98% +12.52% +38.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOLID in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for SOLID in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (83.33%) Apigee
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (83.33%) Datadog
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) Loggly
3 4 (66.67%) PaaS
3 4 (66.67%) Route 53
3 4 (66.67%) SaaS
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (66.67%) BigQuery
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) RDBMS
3 4 (66.67%) Redis
3 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) SonarQube
3 4 (66.67%) Gradle
3 4 (66.67%) Maven
3 4 (66.67%) SonarLint
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) JWT
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (66.67%) Dropwizard
3 4 (66.67%) J2EE
3 4 (66.67%) Micronaut
4 3 (50.00%) Celery
4 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (16.67%) OAuth
5 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
5 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 6 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 5 (83.33%) API Design
2 5 (83.33%) Asynchronous Programming
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) CQRS
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) OOP
2 5 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
3 4 (66.67%) OWASP
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Gigya