SOLID Jobs in the North West

SOLID Principles
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SOLID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SOLID over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 182 228
Rank change year-on-year +8 +46 -93
Permanent jobs citing SOLID 122 112 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.22% 1.45% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.52% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 39 91 98
10th Percentile £45,250 £50,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £39,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 - £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

SOLID is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,207 7,382 9,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.31% 95.54% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,214 3,877 5,302
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SOLID in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SOLID in the North West

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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 20 May 2024. 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 +16 92 £56,337 -6.11% 14
Cheshire +2 15 £51,250 -6.82% 4
Merseyside +8 10 £85,000 +3.03%
Lancashire -12 3 £77,500 +93.75% 1
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England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 107 (87.70%) Azure
2 81 (66.39%) IBM Cloud
3 48 (39.34%) Serverless
4 47 (38.52%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (37.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 44 (36.07%) Azure Functions
6 44 (36.07%) Azure Logic Apps
7 43 (35.25%) Azure API Management
8 9 (7.38%) SaaS
9 3 (2.46%) AWS
9 3 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.46%) GitHub
9 3 (2.46%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.64%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.82%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (68.03%) NoSQL
2 79 (64.75%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (63.93%) DB2
3 78 (63.93%) MongoDB
4 41 (33.61%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (9.02%) Git
2 2 (1.64%) Maven
2 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.82%) Moq
3 1 (0.82%) NUnit
General
1 81 (66.39%) Public Sector
2 38 (31.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (8.20%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.38%) Finance
5 3 (2.46%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.64%) Retail
7 1 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (54.92%) Developer
2 43 (35.25%) Full Stack Developer
3 41 (33.61%) Azure Developer
4 39 (31.97%) Full Stack Engineer
5 37 (30.33%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Senior
7 9 (7.38%) Lead
7 9 (7.38%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.92%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) C# Developer
11 4 (3.28%) C++ Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.46%) C# Software Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Lead C# Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Lead Software Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Power Platform Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (87.70%) .NET
2 88 (72.13%) AngularJS
3 87 (71.31%) REST
4 84 (68.85%) React
4 84 (68.85%) Web Services
5 83 (68.03%) HTML
6 82 (67.21%) Vue
7 81 (66.39%) ASP.NET
7 81 (66.39%) CSS
8 80 (65.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 78 (63.93%) Backbone.js
9 78 (63.93%) Ember.js
9 78 (63.93%) jQuery
9 78 (63.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 41 (33.61%) Node.js
11 9 (7.38%) .NET Core
11 9 (7.38%) .NET Framework
12 5 (4.10%) SignalR
12 5 (4.10%) WCF
12 5 (4.10%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 81 (66.39%) Blockchain
1 81 (66.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 78 (63.93%) Algorithms
2 78 (63.93%) Data Structures
3 38 (31.15%) e-Learning
4 5 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.82%) iPhone
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (64.75%) Windows
2 78 (63.93%) Android
2 78 (63.93%) Apple iOS
2 78 (63.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (76.23%) Full Stack Development
2 86 (70.49%) Design Patterns
2 86 (70.49%) MVC
3 84 (68.85%) User Experience
4 83 (68.03%) Web Development
5 82 (67.21%) OO
6 81 (66.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 81 (66.39%) OOP
7 80 (65.57%) MVVM
8 78 (63.93%) Co-Creation
8 78 (63.93%) Design Thinking
8 78 (63.93%) Responsive Web Design
9 64 (52.46%) Agile
10 58 (47.54%) DevOps
11 51 (41.80%) Mentoring
12 46 (37.70%) API Management
13 44 (36.07%) Code Quality
14 41 (33.61%) Coaching
14 41 (33.61%) Generative AI
15 31 (25.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 111 (90.98%) C#
2 100 (81.97%) JavaScript
3 98 (80.33%) SQL
4 43 (35.25%) Java
5 41 (33.61%) Python
6 6 (4.92%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.28%) C
7 4 (3.28%) C++
8 2 (1.64%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.82%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1 (0.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 81 (66.39%) IBM
1 81 (66.39%) Red Hat
2 14 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.82%) Sitecore