SDLC Jobs in the East Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 90 29
Rank change year-on-year +24 -61 +41
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 109 103 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.06% 2.28% 8.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 2.87% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 42 58 70
10th Percentile £37,691 £35,750 £36,238
25th Percentile £45,313 £39,087 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £60,800
90th Percentile £66,250 £82,500 £65,100
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -6.31%

All Process and 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 2,480 3,585 2,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.36% 79.38% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 922 2,514 1,246
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,050 £50,498
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -12.77% +6.31%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for SDLC in the East Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the East Midlands

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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 22 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
Northamptonshire +22 53 £53,750 +10.26% 9
Leicestershire +32 36 £51,500 +28.85% 12
Lincolnshire +24 11 £62,500 +25.00% 3
Derbyshire +6 6 - - 6
Nottinghamshire 0 3 £65,000 - 17
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (31.19%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (3.67%) MS Visio
1 4 (3.67%) Trello
2 2 (1.83%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Magento
1 6 (5.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (45.87%) Azure
2 41 (37.61%) AWS
3 35 (32.11%) GCP
4 8 (7.34%) SaaS
5 6 (5.50%) BigCommerce
6 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (42.20%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.92%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 45 (41.28%) JIRA
2 39 (35.78%) Bitbucket
2 39 (35.78%) Cucumber
2 39 (35.78%) GitLab
2 39 (35.78%) Maven
2 39 (35.78%) Selenium
2 39 (35.78%) SonarQube
2 39 (35.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (7.34%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.83%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.83%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (1.83%) Postman
5 1 (0.92%) Git
5 1 (0.92%) JMeter
5 1 (0.92%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.92%) Toad
General
1 45 (41.28%) Finance
2 39 (35.78%) Banking
2 39 (35.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.84%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (11.01%) Retail
6 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (8.26%) Law
7 5 (4.59%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (38.53%) Software Engineer
2 24 (22.02%) Principal Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) Developer
4 11 (10.09%) C# Developer
5 10 (9.17%) Analyst
6 8 (7.34%) Business Systems Analyst
6 8 (7.34%) Systems Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Lead
7 7 (6.42%) Project Manager
7 7 (6.42%) Software Developer
7 7 (6.42%) SQL Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Lead Software Developer
8 6 (5.50%) SaaS Developer
9 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (4.59%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.59%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior
10 4 (3.67%) Software Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (44.04%) HTML
2 42 (38.53%) CSS
2 42 (38.53%) React
3 39 (35.78%) JPA
3 39 (35.78%) Kafka
3 39 (35.78%) Redux
3 39 (35.78%) Spring
3 39 (35.78%) Spring Boot
4 34 (31.19%) Hibernate
5 11 (10.09%) .NET
6 9 (8.26%) ASP.NET
7 8 (7.34%) REST
8 6 (5.50%) Jest
9 5 (4.59%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (4.59%) CSS3
9 5 (4.59%) HTML5
9 5 (4.59%) RESTful
9 5 (4.59%) Sass
10 3 (2.75%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 41 (37.61%) Product Ownership
2 39 (35.78%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.50%) EPoS
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Code
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.83%) NHS
4 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (73.39%) Software Engineering
2 76 (69.72%) Agile
3 46 (42.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 45 (41.28%) Front End Development
5 42 (38.53%) DevOps
6 41 (37.61%) CI/CD
6 41 (37.61%) Containerisation
7 40 (36.70%) Microservices
8 39 (35.78%) Performance Optimisation
8 39 (35.78%) Test Automation
9 38 (34.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (31.19%) Clean Code
10 34 (31.19%) TDD
11 30 (27.52%) Software Testing
12 28 (25.69%) Waterfall
13 14 (12.84%) Strategic Thinking
14 11 (10.09%) Mentoring
14 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (10.09%) Project Delivery
15 8 (7.34%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (52.29%) SQL
2 53 (48.62%) JavaScript
3 41 (37.61%) Java
4 19 (17.43%) C#
5 6 (5.50%) Delphi
5 6 (5.50%) Python
5 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.83%) Ada
7 2 (1.83%) Rust
7 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.92%) PHP
8 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (30.28%) Degree
2 25 (22.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.75%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (38.53%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (38.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (36.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (35.78%) Solace
2 23 (21.10%) Siemens
3 12 (11.01%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.59%) Oracle
5 1 (0.92%) Informatica
5 1 (0.92%) Salesforce