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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 145 125
Rank change year-on-year -1 -20 +24
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 29 16 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.48% 0.71% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.75% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 23 10 21
10th Percentile £62,500 £45,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £51,250 £47,500
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 £61,563 £65,000
90th Percentile - £69,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £87,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +66.67% -16.00% +4.17%

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 4,252 2,140 4,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.08% 95.45% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,290 1,209 3,547
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -9.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 7 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 (17.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) AWS
2 17 (58.62%) Serverless
3 11 (37.93%) Azure
4 10 (34.48%) SaaS
5 7 (24.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (24.14%) Azure Functions
5 7 (24.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (24.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (24.14%) GCP
6 6 (20.69%) GitHub
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
1 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Redis
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) Postman
1 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Marketing
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Lead
1 12 (41.38%) Senior
2 9 (31.03%) Developer
3 7 (24.14%) .NET Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Technical Leader
5 4 (13.79%) Principal .NET Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Principal Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Python Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Product Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) .NET
2 7 (24.14%) AngularJS
2 7 (24.14%) Node.js
2 7 (24.14%) REST
3 6 (20.69%) Django
3 6 (20.69%) FastAPI
4 5 (17.24%) CSS
4 5 (17.24%) HTML
5 3 (10.34%) React
5 3 (10.34%) Vue
6 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.45%) JPA
6 1 (3.45%) Kafka
6 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 1 (3.45%) Playwright
6 1 (3.45%) RESTful
6 1 (3.45%) Spring
6 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.45%) Spring MVC
6 1 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
1 7 (24.14%) Mobile App
2 5 (17.24%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) CI/CD
2 20 (68.97%) TDD
3 14 (48.28%) Agile
4 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (37.93%) OOP
5 10 (34.48%) Microservices
6 9 (31.03%) Design Patterns
6 9 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (27.59%) AI
7 8 (27.59%) Clean Code
7 8 (27.59%) DevOps
7 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
8 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven
9 6 (20.69%) Observability
10 5 (17.24%) Analytics
10 5 (17.24%) API Design
10 5 (17.24%) Cost Optimisation
10 5 (17.24%) Data Analytics
10 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) C#
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Adobe
2 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk