SDLC Jobs in the North West

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 30 66
Rank change year-on-year -57 +36 +1
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 261 702 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.69% 8.87% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 9.26% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 151 136 211
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £75,988 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,563
% change year-on-year - -0.10% +8.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

SDLC 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 8,069 7,579 8,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.15% 95.75% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,136 3,921 5,378
10th Percentile £27,875 £30,500 £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 £65,298 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC 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 SDLC within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 -77 115 £70,000 +33.33% 31
Merseyside -14 44 £50,000 +27.32% 4
Lancashire -16 43 £62,125 +3.54% 10
Cheshire -35 41 £60,000 +33.33% 17
Cumbria 0 15 £70,000 +40.85% 3
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England

SDLC
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 9 (3.45%) Confluence
2 8 (3.07%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (2.68%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (22.99%) Azure
2 56 (21.46%) AWS
3 13 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
3 13 (4.98%) Amazon S3
3 13 (4.98%) GitHub
4 10 (3.83%) Google Play
5 9 (3.45%) SaaS
6 8 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.30%) GCP
8 5 (1.92%) Collibra
8 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.15%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.77%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.38%) IaaS
11 1 (0.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.07%) BGP
1 8 (3.07%) DNS
1 8 (3.07%) SSL
1 8 (3.07%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.30%) Broadband
2 6 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.15%) Network Security
4 2 (0.77%) VoIP
5 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.96%) Relational Database
2 23 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (8.81%) RDBMS
3 21 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (6.90%) MySQL
5 15 (5.75%) Metadata
5 15 (5.75%) SQL Server
6 13 (4.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (3.07%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.68%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.92%) MS Access
11 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.38%) ArangoDB
12 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (14.94%) Git
2 32 (12.26%) JIRA
3 14 (5.36%) Postman
4 10 (3.83%) Appium
4 10 (3.83%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.07%) GitLab
6 7 (2.68%) Spinnaker
7 5 (1.92%) InstallShield
8 3 (1.15%) Selenium
8 3 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.38%) Maven
9 1 (0.38%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (26.05%) Finance
2 54 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.28%) Banking
5 17 (6.51%) Aerospace
6 13 (4.98%) Legal
7 11 (4.21%) Retail
8 8 (3.07%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.92%) Automotive
12 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.15%) Avionics
13 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.77%) Aviation
14 2 (0.77%) iGaming
14 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
15 1 (0.38%) Police
15 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (19.16%) Project Manager
2 47 (18.01%) Developer
3 44 (16.86%) Senior
4 34 (13.03%) Software Engineer
5 33 (12.64%) Lead
6 30 (11.49%) Presales Manager
7 27 (10.34%) Architect
8 17 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (6.13%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.98%) Analyst
10 13 (4.98%) Senior Architect
10 13 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.98%) Technical Leader
11 12 (4.60%) Head of IT
11 12 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.83%) IT Manager
12 10 (3.83%) Senior Data Architect
12 10 (3.83%) Software Tester
12 10 (3.83%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.71%) .NET
2 29 (11.11%) JSON
3 25 (9.58%) REST
4 21 (8.05%) Spring Boot
5 17 (6.51%) Spring
6 16 (6.13%) .NET Framework
7 15 (5.75%) .NET Core
8 12 (4.60%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (3.83%) Android SDK
9 10 (3.83%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.83%) HTML
9 10 (3.83%) SOAP
10 9 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (3.45%) React
10 9 (3.45%) RESTful
11 7 (2.68%) CSS
11 7 (2.68%) Entity Framework
11 7 (2.68%) Node.js
11 7 (2.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.09%) Management Information System
2 23 (8.81%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (7.28%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.75%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.83%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.68%) Cyberattack
8 6 (2.30%) Social Network
8 6 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.92%) Life Science
9 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.15%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.15%) PMI
12 2 (0.77%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.56%) Linux
2 28 (10.73%) Windows
3 11 (4.21%) Android
4 8 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.30%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (65.90%) Agile
2 95 (36.40%) Project Management
3 59 (22.61%) Software Engineering
4 58 (22.22%) DevOps
5 57 (21.84%) CI/CD
6 55 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (20.31%) Actionable Insight
8 50 (19.16%) Agile Project Management
9 49 (18.77%) Project Delivery
10 47 (18.01%) Computer Science
11 39 (14.94%) Design Patterns
12 38 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (14.18%) Scrum
14 36 (13.79%) Roadmaps
15 34 (13.03%) Presales
15 34 (13.03%) Software Delivery
16 29 (11.11%) Data Modelling
17 28 (10.73%) Kanban
18 24 (9.20%) Collaborative Working
18 24 (9.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.18%) C#
2 36 (13.79%) Java
3 25 (9.58%) JavaScript
3 25 (9.58%) SQL
4 15 (5.75%) PHP
5 12 (4.60%) C++
6 10 (3.83%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.92%) Python
7 5 (1.92%) VB
8 2 (0.77%) Ada
8 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.38%) XAML
Qualifications
1 48 (18.39%) Degree
2 38 (14.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (12.26%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.13%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.75%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.83%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.53%) CISSP
9 4 (1.53%) PMP
9 4 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (1.15%) HND
10 3 (1.15%) PgMP
11 2 (0.77%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.38%) CCA
12 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.03%) QA
2 16 (6.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.75%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.83%) ISO 9000
4 10 (3.83%) NIST
5 9 (3.45%) SLA
6 7 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.38%) NCSC
9 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (9.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (11.88%) Terraform
2 25 (9.58%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.13%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.51%) Google
3 10 (3.83%) Oracle
4 9 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.07%) Sparx
6 7 (2.68%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.30%) Veeam
8 5 (1.92%) IBM
9 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.77%) Twitter
10 2 (0.77%) VMware
11 1 (0.38%) BT
11 1 (0.38%) IFS
11 1 (0.38%) SAP