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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 141 133
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 -26
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 21 18 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.75% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.71% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21 5 12
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £34,300
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,000 £85,875
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -13.79%

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 2,243 2,529 2,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.57% 93.42% 92.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 1,178 1,722
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,772
25th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,964
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%

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 4 January 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 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Serverless
3 9 (42.86%) SaaS
4 8 (38.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 8 (38.10%) Azure Functions
4 8 (38.10%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (38.10%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) Datadog
7 1 (4.76%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Senior
2 7 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Team Leader
5 3 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Principal .NET Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Principal Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Senior .NET Web Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Web Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) .NET
2 10 (47.62%) React
3 9 (42.86%) REST
4 6 (28.57%) .NET Core
5 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
6 3 (14.29%) RESTful
7 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
7 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (9.52%) CSS
7 2 (9.52%) HTML
7 2 (9.52%) Kafka
7 2 (9.52%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (9.52%) Sass
8 1 (4.76%) Django
8 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
8 1 (4.76%) Node.js
8 1 (4.76%) Vue
8 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Agile
1 18 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 17 (80.95%) TDD
3 10 (47.62%) Microservices
4 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (42.86%) DevOps
4 9 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
5 5 (23.81%) SDLC
6 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 4 (19.05%) Kanban
6 4 (19.05%) Unit Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
8 2 (9.52%) API Development
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (9.52%) Data Design
8 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (9.52%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) C#
2 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) Python
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace