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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 146 134
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +15
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 32 18 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.52% 0.79% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.83% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 21
10th Percentile - £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £52,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -4.84% -8.05%
75th Percentile £95,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 £77,500
North West median annual salary £87,500 £55,168 £61,250
% change year-on-year +58.61% -9.93% +2.08%

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 4,443 2,168 4,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.20% 95.17% 82.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,518 1,236 3,672
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,330
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -7.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,625 £80,392
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%

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 21 June 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 (15.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 18 (56.25%) Serverless
3 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 12 (37.50%) SaaS
4 8 (25.00%) GCP
5 7 (21.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (21.88%) Azure Functions
5 7 (21.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (21.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (21.88%) GitHub
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) Postman
1 2 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Marketing
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Lead
1 13 (40.63%) Senior
2 10 (31.25%) Developer
3 7 (21.88%) .NET Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Technical Leader
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Principal .NET Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Principal Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Python Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Product Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) .NET
2 9 (28.13%) Node.js
3 7 (21.88%) AngularJS
3 7 (21.88%) REST
4 6 (18.75%) Django
4 6 (18.75%) FastAPI
5 5 (15.63%) CSS
5 5 (15.63%) HTML
6 4 (12.50%) Vue
7 3 (9.38%) React
8 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
8 2 (6.25%) JPA
8 2 (6.25%) Kafka
8 2 (6.25%) OpenAPI
8 2 (6.25%) RESTful
8 2 (6.25%) Spring
8 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
8 2 (6.25%) Swagger
9 1 (3.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (21.88%) Mobile App
3 5 (15.63%) Marketing Technology
3 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) CI/CD
2 20 (62.50%) TDD
3 14 (43.75%) Agile
4 12 (37.50%) Design Patterns
4 12 (37.50%) Microservices
4 12 (37.50%) OOP
5 11 (34.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (31.25%) AI
6 10 (31.25%) Clean Code
6 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
7 8 (25.00%) DevOps
8 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (18.75%) Event-Driven
9 6 (18.75%) Observability
10 5 (15.63%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (15.63%) Cost Optimisation
10 5 (15.63%) Data Analytics
10 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (15.63%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) C#
2 10 (31.25%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) Java
3 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.25%) Kotlin
4 2 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Adobe
2 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.25%) Splunk