SOLID Job Trends in Manchester

SOLID Principles
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SOLID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 149 129
Rank change year-on-year -22 -20 +12
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 25 17 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.35% 0.68% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.76% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 18 12 14
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,750 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £95,000 £78,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £82,375 £79,250
North West median annual salary £87,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% - +8.33%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,348 2,242 3,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.22% 90.29% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,165 1,320 2,143
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOLID relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

SOLID job vacancy trend in Manchester

SOLID
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SOLID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SOLID

SOLID
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SOLID in Manchester

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) AWS
2 13 (52.00%) Serverless
3 8 (32.00%) GitHub
3 8 (32.00%) SaaS
4 7 (28.00%) Azure
4 7 (28.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Functions
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Redis
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.00%) Postman
1 3 (12.00%) Selenium
General
1 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Marketing
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Lead
2 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) Technical Leader
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Principal .NET Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Principal Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Product Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Node.js
2 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (20.00%) CSS
2 5 (20.00%) HTML
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) Django
3 4 (16.00%) FastAPI
3 4 (16.00%) Vue
4 3 (12.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (12.00%) JPA
4 3 (12.00%) Kafka
4 3 (12.00%) OpenAPI
4 3 (12.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) RESTful
4 3 (12.00%) Spring
4 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) Spring MVC
4 3 (12.00%) Swagger
5 1 (4.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.00%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (8.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (52.00%) Design Patterns
2 13 (52.00%) OOP
3 12 (48.00%) TDD
4 10 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 10 (40.00%) Microservices
4 10 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (36.00%) AI
5 9 (36.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (32.00%) Agile
7 5 (20.00%) Data Analysis
7 5 (20.00%) Data Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) Data Management
7 5 (20.00%) ETL
7 5 (20.00%) Information Security
7 5 (20.00%) Investment Management
7 5 (20.00%) Regression Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) Java
4 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (16.00%) C#
7 3 (12.00%) Kotlin
7 3 (12.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Adobe
2 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk