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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 147 130
Rank change year-on-year -5 -17 +22
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 28 18 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.44% 0.72% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.78% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 21 11 20
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £52,500 £56,337
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -6.81% -6.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £74,375 £65,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 £77,750
North West median annual salary £87,500 £57,836 £65,000
% change year-on-year +51.29% -11.02% +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 4,721 2,307 4,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.42% 92.69% 82.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,738 1,331 3,153
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,905 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £82,101
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 19 July 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 (17.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) Serverless
3 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 9 (32.14%) SaaS
4 8 (28.57%) GCP
4 8 (28.57%) GitHub
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Redis
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.71%) Postman
1 3 (10.71%) Selenium
General
1 10 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Marketing
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Lead
2 11 (39.29%) Senior
3 9 (32.14%) Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Technical Leader
5 5 (17.86%) .NET Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Principal .NET Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Principal Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Product Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (3.57%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Node.js
2 6 (21.43%) .NET
2 6 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 5 (17.86%) CSS
3 5 (17.86%) Django
3 5 (17.86%) FastAPI
3 5 (17.86%) HTML
4 4 (14.29%) REST
4 4 (14.29%) Vue
5 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
5 3 (10.71%) JPA
5 3 (10.71%) Kafka
5 3 (10.71%) OpenAPI
5 3 (10.71%) RESTful
5 3 (10.71%) Spring
5 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 3 (10.71%) Spring MVC
5 3 (10.71%) Swagger
6 1 (3.57%) Playwright
6 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (17.86%) Onboarding
3 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.14%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 15 (53.57%) TDD
3 13 (46.43%) Design Patterns
3 13 (46.43%) OOP
4 11 (39.29%) Microservices
5 10 (35.71%) Agile
5 10 (35.71%) AI
5 10 (35.71%) Clean Code
5 10 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (35.71%) Test Automation
6 6 (21.43%) DevOps
7 5 (17.86%) Analytics
7 5 (17.86%) API Design
7 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
7 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
7 5 (17.86%) Data Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Data Management
7 5 (17.86%) Investment Management
7 5 (17.86%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 8 (28.57%) Java
4 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (21.43%) C#
5 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (10.71%) Kotlin
6 3 (10.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Adobe
2 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk