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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 142 123
Rank change year-on-year +36 -19 -6
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 24 20 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.98% 0.63% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.70% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 23 7 14
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £38,900
25th Percentile £61,875 £46,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £74,063
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,500 £85,125
North West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -25.00%

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 2,097 2,866 2,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.31% 89.96% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 1,381 1,698
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +5.53%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,369 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% -6.60% +2.33%

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 10 December 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 1 (4.17%) IIS
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) AWS
3 10 (41.67%) SaaS
3 10 (41.67%) Serverless
4 8 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 8 (33.33%) Azure Functions
4 8 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) GCP
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.17%) Datadog
8 1 (4.17%) GitHub
8 1 (4.17%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Data Hub
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Back Office
3 1 (4.17%) Digital Health
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Senior
2 7 (29.17%) .NET Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Senior Software Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Software Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Team Leader
5 3 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Principal .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Principal Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Senior .NET Web Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Web Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (83.33%) .NET
2 10 (41.67%) React
3 9 (37.50%) REST
4 8 (33.33%) .NET Core
5 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 3 (12.50%) RESTful
7 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
7 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (8.33%) CSS
7 2 (8.33%) HTML
7 2 (8.33%) Kafka
7 2 (8.33%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (8.33%) Sass
8 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
8 1 (4.17%) Django
8 1 (4.17%) JWT
8 1 (4.17%) Next.js
8 1 (4.17%) OAuth
8 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Agile
1 20 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 19 (79.17%) TDD
3 11 (45.83%) DevOps
3 11 (45.83%) Microservices
3 11 (45.83%) Software Engineering
4 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) SDLC
7 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
7 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.67%) Kanban
7 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
8 3 (12.50%) Observability
8 3 (12.50%) Process Improvement
8 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.17%) VMware