SDLC Job Trends in the East Midlands

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 59 64
Rank change year-on-year -47 +5 -30
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 35 67 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.22% 3.36% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 3.75% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 19 48 68
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,500 £33,025
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,300 £67,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,243 1,787 2,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.02% 89.53% 84.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 801 1,965
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SDLC job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the East Midlands

SDLC
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Northamptonshire -7 17 £37,500 -31.82% 4
Nottinghamshire +4 10 £53,750 -17.31% 10
Leicestershire -16 6 £50,000 - 2
Lincolnshire -16 2 £57,850 -3.58%
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Misys Midas
1 2 (5.71%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) SaaS
4 3 (8.57%) AWS
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Power BI
1 8 (22.86%) Relational Database
1 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) GitLab
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Electronics
3 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.71%) Retail
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) C# Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Software Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) IT Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Software Architect
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) WinForms
1 8 (22.86%) XML
2 7 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (8.57%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
1 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Agile
2 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
3 7 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 6 (17.14%) DevOps
5 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.57%) Coaching
7 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.57%) Data Engineering
7 3 (8.57%) Data Integration
7 3 (8.57%) Data Management
7 3 (8.57%) Data Modelling
7 3 (8.57%) ERP
7 3 (8.57%) ETL
7 3 (8.57%) Logical Data Model
7 3 (8.57%) Open Source
7 3 (8.57%) Physical Data Model
7 3 (8.57%) Software Testing
7 3 (8.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) C#
2 8 (22.86%) Delphi
2 8 (22.86%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Go
3 2 (5.71%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.86%) C
4 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.57%) Chartered Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Conga
5 1 (2.86%) Jitterbit
5 1 (2.86%) Pardot
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) Siemens