SOLID Job Trends in the North of England

SOLID Principles
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 236 234 246
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -91
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 27 51 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.61% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 26 24 27
10th Percentile £39,875 £44,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £56,563 £52,500 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,836 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% -3.61% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,625 £69,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,559 8,368 7,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.49% 90.10% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,765 5,537
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -1.87%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SOLID relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

SOLID job vacancy trend in the North of England

SOLID
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SOLID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SOLID

SOLID
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the North of England

SOLID
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +19 22 £65,000 -7.14% 26
North East +2 5 £43,250 -21.36% 3
SOLID
England

SOLID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Serverless
3 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 10 (37.04%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (33.33%) SaaS
5 8 (29.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (29.63%) Azure Functions
5 8 (29.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (11.11%) GCP
8 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.70%) Datadog
9 1 (3.70%) Google Ads
9 1 (3.70%) Twilio
9 1 (3.70%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) ESLint
2 1 (3.70%) Storybook
2 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Senior
3 7 (25.93%) .NET Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Lead
4 6 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Software Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Team Leader
6 3 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Principal .NET Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Principal Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) .NET Web Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior .NET Web Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (85.19%) .NET
2 12 (44.44%) React
3 10 (37.04%) REST
4 6 (22.22%) .NET Core
5 5 (18.52%) .NET Framework
5 5 (18.52%) Blazor
6 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
7 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET
7 3 (11.11%) Entity Framework
7 3 (11.11%) RESTful
7 3 (11.11%) WebAssembly
8 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (7.41%) CSS
8 2 (7.41%) HTML
8 2 (7.41%) Kafka
8 2 (7.41%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (7.41%) Sass
9 1 (3.70%) Node.js
9 1 (3.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
1 21 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 20 (74.07%) TDD
3 13 (48.15%) Microservices
4 12 (44.44%) DevOps
5 10 (37.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
8 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 6 (22.22%) SDLC
9 4 (14.81%) Design Patterns
9 4 (14.81%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
9 4 (14.81%) Kanban
9 4 (14.81%) Unit Testing
10 3 (11.11%) Clean Code
10 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (11.11%) OO
10 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
10 3 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) C#
2 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.70%) Google