SDLC Jobs in Leeds

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 79 48
Rank change year-on-year +18 -31 +13
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 17 54 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.20% 2.30% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.73% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 72
10th Percentile £54,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £46,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £140,677 £66,250 £74,063
90th Percentile - £80,000 £84,056
West Yorkshire median annual salary £81,250 £50,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +62.50% -17.76% +21.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 724 1,977 2,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 93.66% 84.09% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 472 1,411 1,639
10th Percentile £26,025 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Leeds

SDLC
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Leeds

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Leeds over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Leeds

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) GCP
2 7 (41.18%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Wireless
1 1 (5.88%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) Redis
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) CouchDB
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Gradle
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Postman
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (41.18%) Banking
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Games
4 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Lead
2 6 (35.29%) Lead Software Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Head of Development
4 2 (11.76%) Head of Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
2 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) Express.js
2 6 (35.29%) Node.js
2 6 (35.29%) React
3 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.76%) FastAPI
4 2 (11.76%) Flask
4 2 (11.76%) Laravel
4 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (11.76%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) pytest
5 1 (5.88%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) SOAP
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
1 9 (52.94%) Software Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Software Testing
3 7 (41.18%) Low Latency
3 7 (41.18%) Roadmaps
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
4 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 6 (35.29%) Operational Stability
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
6 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
6 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) C#
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
3 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
4 4 (23.53%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) PHP
6 1 (5.88%) Assembly Language
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) VMware