SDLC Jobs in Cheshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 58 43
Rank change year-on-year +21 -15 -2
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 58 44 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.11% 2.44% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.49% 3.24% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 33 15
10th Percentile £55,750 £47,600 -
25th Percentile £56,875 £50,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £60,800
90th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £60,899
North West median annual salary £50,055 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.58% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

SDLC 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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 683 1,357 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.70% 75.18% 93.17%
Number of salaries quoted 241 996 440
10th Percentile £20,280 £26,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £90,125
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Cheshire

SDLC
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Cheshire.

Salary trend for SDLC in Cheshire

SDLC
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Warrington +18 4 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Runcorn +1 4 - -
Crewe -1 4 £55,000 -3.51%
Chester +18 3 - - 4
Wilmslow +4 3 - - 2
Ellesmere Port -4 3 - -
Macclesfield - 3 - -
Widnes - 3 - -
Northwich - 3 - -
Middlewich - 2 - -
Sandbach - 2 - -
Knutsford - 2 - - 2
Congleton - 2 - -
Winsford +10 1 - -
SDLC
North West

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 21 (36.21%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 56 (96.55%) AWS
1 56 (96.55%) Azure
2 21 (36.21%) GCP
3 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (94.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (94.83%) Bitbucket
1 55 (94.83%) Cucumber
1 55 (94.83%) GitLab
1 55 (94.83%) JIRA
1 55 (94.83%) Maven
1 55 (94.83%) Selenium
1 55 (94.83%) SonarQube
1 55 (94.83%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (94.83%) Banking
1 55 (94.83%) Finance
1 55 (94.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (58.62%) Corporate Banking
2 34 (58.62%) Investment Banking
2 34 (58.62%) Retail
3 2 (3.45%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (96.55%) Software Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (1.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (94.83%) CSS
1 55 (94.83%) HTML
1 55 (94.83%) JPA
1 55 (94.83%) Kafka
1 55 (94.83%) React
1 55 (94.83%) Redux
1 55 (94.83%) Spring
1 55 (94.83%) Spring Boot
2 34 (58.62%) CSS3
2 34 (58.62%) HTML5
2 34 (58.62%) Jest
2 34 (58.62%) REST
2 34 (58.62%) RESTful
2 34 (58.62%) Sass
3 21 (36.21%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.72%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 55 (94.83%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (94.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (98.28%) DevOps
2 56 (96.55%) Agile
2 56 (96.55%) CI/CD
2 56 (96.55%) Software Engineering
3 55 (94.83%) Containerisation
3 55 (94.83%) Front End Development
3 55 (94.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 55 (94.83%) Microservices
3 55 (94.83%) Performance Optimisation
3 55 (94.83%) Test Automation
4 34 (58.62%) Mentoring
4 34 (58.62%) Migration
4 34 (58.62%) Responsive Web Design
4 34 (58.62%) Strategic Thinking
4 34 (58.62%) User Experience
5 21 (36.21%) Clean Code
5 21 (36.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (36.21%) TDD
6 2 (3.45%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 55 (94.83%) Java
1 55 (94.83%) JavaScript
1 55 (94.83%) SQL
2 34 (58.62%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.72%) Bash
3 1 (1.72%) Bicep
3 1 (1.72%) C#
3 1 (1.72%) C++
3 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.72%) Python
3 1 (1.72%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.72%) CCSP
2 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.72%) CISSP
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (96.55%) QA
2 34 (58.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (94.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (94.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (94.83%) Solace
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft