SOLID Jobs in the North West

SOLID Principles
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring SOLID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SOLID over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 168 182
Rank change year-on-year -43 +14 +33
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 46 123 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 1.27% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.52% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 34 39 102
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £54,460 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £59,081 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £60,599 £85,000 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,217 8,082 7,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.29% 83.16% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,047 6,150 3,924
10th Percentile £27,123 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

SOLID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing SOLID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SOLID in the North West

SOLID
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SOLID in the North West.

Salary trend for SOLID in the North West

SOLID
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the North West

SOLID
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SOLID within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Manchester +3 23 £52,500 -4.84% 10
Lancashire -26 22 £57,836 -17.38% 5
Cheshire +27 1 - - 3
SOLID
England

SOLID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.17%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
2 7 (15.22%) GCP
3 6 (13.04%) IBM Cloud
4 4 (8.70%) Azure
4 4 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub
5 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) MySQL
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Maven
3 2 (4.35%) NUnit
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Games
3 6 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Back Office
5 1 (2.17%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (50.00%) Lead
2 22 (47.83%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 22 (47.83%) Systems Engineer
3 20 (43.48%) Senior
4 12 (26.09%) Developer
5 11 (23.91%) Senior Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (13.04%) Java Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) PHP Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Java Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Senior PHP Developer
7 4 (8.70%) .NET Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Digital Developer
10 1 (2.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 1 (2.17%) Head of Development
10 1 (2.17%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) .NET
2 10 (21.74%) CSS
3 9 (19.57%) HTML
3 9 (19.57%) React
4 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
5 6 (13.04%) jQuery
5 6 (13.04%) LAMP
5 6 (13.04%) Vue
6 5 (10.87%) .NET Core
6 5 (10.87%) .NET Framework
7 3 (6.52%) Entity Framework
7 3 (6.52%) Web Services
8 2 (4.35%) Redux
8 2 (4.35%) RESTful
9 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
9 1 (2.17%) Dapper ORM
9 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
9 1 (2.17%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 20 (43.48%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.04%) Blockchain
2 6 (13.04%) e-Learning
2 6 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (71.74%) Software Engineering
2 29 (63.04%) Agile
3 23 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 22 (47.83%) Business Case
4 22 (47.83%) Business Strategy
4 22 (47.83%) Data Analysis
4 22 (47.83%) Line Management
4 22 (47.83%) Microservices
4 22 (47.83%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 22 (47.83%) Roadmaps
4 22 (47.83%) SysML
4 22 (47.83%) Systems Engineering
4 22 (47.83%) Technology Roadmap
4 22 (47.83%) UML
5 15 (32.61%) Performance Management
6 14 (30.43%) TDD
7 11 (23.91%) DevOps
8 10 (21.74%) Design Patterns
9 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
9 8 (17.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) Java
2 22 (47.83%) C
3 12 (26.09%) C#
4 10 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.04%) PHP
6 2 (4.35%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) SQL
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (54.35%) Degree
2 22 (47.83%) HND
3 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Grafana
1 1 (2.17%) Kibana
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.17%) logstash
1 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) IBM
1 6 (13.04%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.52%) Twitter
3 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) Optimizely
3 1 (2.17%) VMware