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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 160 125
Rank change year-on-year +38 -35 -5
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 21 16 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.90% 0.44% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.51% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 18 5 21
10th Percentile £59,375 £41,750 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,313 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -20.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 3,110 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.02% 85.23% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 1,420 1,860
10th Percentile £28,175 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,625 £55,000 £59,778
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% -7.99% +8.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,292 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% -4.92% +4.76%

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 5 November 2025.

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 2 (9.52%) IIS
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) SaaS
4 7 (33.33%) Serverless
5 5 (23.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (23.81%) Azure Functions
5 5 (23.81%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (23.81%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) GCP
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (9.52%) GitHub
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 1 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (4.76%) Datadog
9 1 (4.76%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Data Hub
2 2 (9.52%) SQL CLR
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) NUnit
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Back Office
3 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Health
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Senior
2 7 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 3 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Team Leader
5 2 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Head of Development
5 2 (9.52%) Principal .NET Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Principal Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Backend Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) .NET
2 9 (42.86%) React
3 7 (33.33%) .NET Core
4 6 (28.57%) REST
5 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
6 2 (9.52%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (9.52%) Entity Framework
6 2 (9.52%) Kafka
6 2 (9.52%) RESTful
7 1 (4.76%) Django
7 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
7 1 (4.76%) JWT
7 1 (4.76%) Loki
7 1 (4.76%) Next.js
7 1 (4.76%) Node.js
7 1 (4.76%) OAuth
7 1 (4.76%) React Native
7 1 (4.76%) Vue
7 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) TDD
2 17 (80.95%) Agile
3 16 (76.19%) CI/CD
4 12 (57.14%) Software Engineering
5 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (42.86%) DevOps
5 9 (42.86%) Microservices
6 6 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 6 (28.57%) SDLC
7 5 (23.81%) Unit Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (19.05%) Observability
9 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
9 3 (14.29%) User Experience
10 2 (9.52%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Python
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace