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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 145 119
Rank change year-on-year -13 -26 +22
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 27 17 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.41% 0.68% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.74% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 20 11 15
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £51,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £95,000 £74,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £82,500 £79,000
North West median annual salary £87,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 4,927 2,309 3,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.01% 91.70% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,878 1,342 2,480
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 August 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 (18.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) AWS
2 15 (55.56%) Serverless
3 9 (33.33%) SaaS
4 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 8 (29.63%) GCP
4 8 (29.63%) GitHub
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Functions
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
1 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Redis
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.11%) Postman
1 3 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Marketing
2 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Lead
2 10 (37.04%) Senior
3 9 (33.33%) Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Technical Leader
5 5 (18.52%) .NET Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Principal .NET Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Principal Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Python Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Product Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.70%) C# Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Node.js
2 5 (18.52%) .NET
2 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
2 5 (18.52%) CSS
2 5 (18.52%) Django
2 5 (18.52%) FastAPI
2 5 (18.52%) HTML
3 4 (14.81%) REST
3 4 (14.81%) Vue
4 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 3 (11.11%) JPA
4 3 (11.11%) Kafka
4 3 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 3 (11.11%) RESTful
4 3 (11.11%) Spring
4 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 3 (11.11%) Spring MVC
4 3 (11.11%) Swagger
5 1 (3.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (18.52%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.41%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
2 14 (51.85%) TDD
3 13 (48.15%) Design Patterns
3 13 (48.15%) OOP
4 10 (37.04%) AI
4 10 (37.04%) Clean Code
4 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (37.04%) Microservices
4 10 (37.04%) Test Automation
5 9 (33.33%) Agile
5 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (18.52%) Analytics
6 5 (18.52%) API Design
6 5 (18.52%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
6 5 (18.52%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (18.52%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) Java
4 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
5 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (18.52%) C#
7 3 (11.11%) Kotlin
7 3 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Adobe
2 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 3 (11.11%) Splunk