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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 118 130
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 -2
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 22 23 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.50% 1.14% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.19% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 21
10th Percentile £54,375 £47,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -4.84% -8.05%
75th Percentile £78,125 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,500 £65,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% - -11.54%

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 3,250 1,929 4,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.58% 95.31% 87.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,207 1,247 3,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 2 April 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Serverless
2 15 (68.18%) Azure
3 11 (50.00%) SaaS
4 10 (45.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 10 (45.45%) Azure Functions
4 10 (45.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 10 (45.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (40.91%) AWS
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (18.18%) GCP
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.55%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Senior
2 10 (45.45%) .NET Developer
2 10 (45.45%) Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Lead
3 5 (22.73%) Principal .NET Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Principal Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior .NET Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Team Leader
6 2 (9.09%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Developer
6 2 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior .NET Web Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Web Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
6 2 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) .NET
2 10 (45.45%) REST
3 6 (27.27%) React
4 4 (18.18%) Django
4 4 (18.18%) FastAPI
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (9.09%) CSS
5 2 (9.09%) HTML
5 2 (9.09%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 2 (9.09%) Sass
6 1 (4.55%) Node.js
6 1 (4.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Mobile App
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 17 (77.27%) TDD
3 14 (63.64%) Agile
4 10 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (40.91%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) Design Patterns
7 5 (22.73%) Microservices
7 5 (22.73%) Observability
8 4 (18.18%) AI
8 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
8 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (13.64%) Clean Code
9 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
10 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 2 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
10 2 (9.09%) Data Design
10 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) C#
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace