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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 46 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -24 +28
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 194 41 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.32% 3.12% 10.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.44% 3.95% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 160 24 22
10th Percentile - - £37,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £52,125 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -14.27% +7.61%
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 2,298 1,039 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 98.54% 79.13% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 873 358
10th Percentile £42,415 £28,000 £28,894
25th Percentile £47,683 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.26% +7.21%
75th Percentile £54,793 £62,250 £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 20 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 20 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 - 1
Blackburn - 31 £50,055 - 8
Preston 0 30 £50,055 +0.11% 1
Chorley -5 5 £40,000 -50.00% 1
Lancaster +12 2 £51,237 +13.86% 1
Carnforth - 1 £40,000 -
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 (3.09%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.34%) Azure
2 18 (9.28%) AWS
3 6 (3.09%) GCP
4 4 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.55%) Power BI
2 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) JIRA
2 18 (9.28%) Bitbucket
2 18 (9.28%) Cucumber
2 18 (9.28%) GitLab
2 18 (9.28%) Maven
2 18 (9.28%) Selenium
2 18 (9.28%) SonarQube
2 18 (9.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (3.09%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (0.52%) Postman
4 1 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.52%) TestComplete
General
1 161 (82.99%) Aerospace
2 131 (67.53%) Avionics
3 18 (9.28%) Banking
3 18 (9.28%) Finance
3 18 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.19%) Corporate Banking
4 12 (6.19%) Investment Banking
4 12 (6.19%) Retail
5 3 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.55%) Military
6 1 (0.52%) Electronics
6 1 (0.52%) Legal
6 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (0.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (68.56%) Senior
2 131 (67.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 131 (67.53%) Systems Engineer
3 30 (15.46%) Lead
4 22 (11.34%) Software Engineer
5 4 (2.06%) Developer
5 4 (2.06%) Software Developer
6 3 (1.55%) Security Engineer
7 2 (1.03%) Analyst
7 2 (1.03%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (1.03%) Development Analyst
7 2 (1.03%) Integration Analyst
7 2 (1.03%) Project Analyst
7 2 (1.03%) Software Analyst
7 2 (1.03%) Software Development Analyst
7 2 (1.03%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (1.03%) Systems Development Analyst
7 2 (1.03%) Systems Integration Analyst
8 1 (0.52%) Senior Developer
8 1 (0.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.34%) CSS
1 22 (11.34%) HTML
2 18 (9.28%) JPA
2 18 (9.28%) Kafka
2 18 (9.28%) React
2 18 (9.28%) Redux
2 18 (9.28%) Spring
2 18 (9.28%) Spring Boot
3 14 (7.22%) REST
4 12 (6.19%) CSS3
4 12 (6.19%) HTML5
4 12 (6.19%) Jest
4 12 (6.19%) RESTful
4 12 (6.19%) Sass
5 6 (3.09%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.58%) SOAP
6 5 (2.58%) XML
7 4 (2.06%) .NET
8 3 (1.55%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.55%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.28%) Enterprise Software
1 18 (9.28%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.06%) Linux
1 4 (2.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (67.53%) Business Case
1 131 (67.53%) Customer Requirements
1 131 (67.53%) Feasibility Study
1 131 (67.53%) Hazard Analysis
1 131 (67.53%) Requirements Management
1 131 (67.53%) Systems Engineering
2 35 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (15.46%) Software Testing
4 29 (14.95%) Collaborative Culture
4 29 (14.95%) Systems Thinking
5 23 (11.86%) DevOps
5 23 (11.86%) Software Engineering
5 23 (11.86%) Test Automation
6 22 (11.34%) Agile
7 20 (10.31%) Microservices
8 19 (9.79%) CI/CD
9 18 (9.28%) Containerisation
9 18 (9.28%) Front End Development
9 18 (9.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (9.28%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (29.38%) SQL
2 52 (26.80%) Java
3 19 (9.79%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.19%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.58%) C#
6 4 (2.06%) Python
7 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.03%) Ada
9 1 (0.52%) C
9 1 (0.52%) C++
9 1 (0.52%) PHP
9 1 (0.52%) Rust
9 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 162 (83.51%) Degree
2 135 (69.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.52%) HNC
3 1 (0.52%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.79%) QA
2 12 (6.19%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.03%) PMO
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (9.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (16.49%) Oracle
2 18 (9.28%) Solace
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft