SDLC Jobs in Lancashire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 51 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 -24 +22
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 189 42 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.15% 3.10% 9.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.32% 3.95% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 155 25 22
10th Percentile - - £37,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £54,250 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -10.77% +5.28%
75th Percentile £51,240 £80,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £58,943 - £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.58% +9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,272 1,062 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 97.97% 78.38% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,244 885 369
10th Percentile £42,415 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £36,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £54,793 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,772 £70,600
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Lancashire

SDLC
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Lancashire

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Lancashire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Lancashire

SDLC
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Lytham St Annes - 33 £50,055 -
Blackpool - 32 £50,055 -
Blackburn - 31 £50,055 - 3
Preston -6 30 £50,055 +0.11% 42
Chorley -3 4 £40,000 -50.00% 1
Lancaster +12 2 £51,237 +13.86%
SDLC
North West

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 6 (3.17%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.11%) Azure
2 18 (9.52%) AWS
3 6 (3.17%) GCP
4 3 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.59%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.59%) Power BI
2 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Bitbucket
1 18 (9.52%) Cucumber
1 18 (9.52%) GitLab
1 18 (9.52%) JIRA
1 18 (9.52%) Maven
1 18 (9.52%) Selenium
1 18 (9.52%) SonarQube
1 18 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (3.17%) Git
3 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 160 (84.66%) Aerospace
2 131 (69.31%) Avionics
3 18 (9.52%) Banking
3 18 (9.52%) Finance
3 18 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.35%) Corporate Banking
4 12 (6.35%) Investment Banking
4 12 (6.35%) Retail
5 3 (1.59%) Military
6 2 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 132 (69.84%) Senior
2 131 (69.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 131 (69.31%) Systems Engineer
3 29 (15.34%) Lead
4 22 (11.64%) Software Engineer
5 4 (2.12%) Developer
5 4 (2.12%) Software Developer
6 2 (1.06%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (1.06%) Security Engineer
7 1 (0.53%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (0.53%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (0.53%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (0.53%) Development Analyst
7 1 (0.53%) Integration Analyst
7 1 (0.53%) Junior Software Engineer
7 1 (0.53%) Senior Developer
7 1 (0.53%) Software Analyst
7 1 (0.53%) Software Development Analyst
7 1 (0.53%) Systems Development Analyst
7 1 (0.53%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.64%) CSS
1 22 (11.64%) HTML
2 18 (9.52%) JPA
2 18 (9.52%) Kafka
2 18 (9.52%) React
2 18 (9.52%) Redux
2 18 (9.52%) Spring
2 18 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 13 (6.88%) REST
4 12 (6.35%) CSS3
4 12 (6.35%) HTML5
4 12 (6.35%) Jest
4 12 (6.35%) RESTful
4 12 (6.35%) Sass
5 6 (3.17%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.12%) SOAP
6 4 (2.12%) XML
7 3 (1.59%) .NET
7 3 (1.59%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.59%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
1 18 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.59%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.12%) Linux
1 4 (2.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (69.31%) Business Case
1 131 (69.31%) Customer Requirements
1 131 (69.31%) Feasibility Study
1 131 (69.31%) Hazard Analysis
1 131 (69.31%) Requirements Management
1 131 (69.31%) Systems Engineering
2 35 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (15.34%) Collaborative Culture
3 29 (15.34%) Software Testing
3 29 (15.34%) Systems Thinking
4 22 (11.64%) Software Engineering
5 21 (11.11%) Agile
5 21 (11.11%) DevOps
5 21 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 20 (10.58%) Microservices
7 18 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 18 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 18 (9.52%) Front End Development
7 18 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.10%) SQL
2 51 (26.98%) Java
3 18 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.35%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.12%) C#
5 4 (2.12%) Python
6 3 (1.59%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.53%) Ada
7 1 (0.53%) PHP
7 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 161 (85.19%) Degree
2 135 (71.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.52%) QA
2 12 (6.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (16.93%) Oracle
2 18 (9.52%) Solace
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft