SDLC Jobs in Leicester

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 46 28
Rank change year-on-year +25 -18 +15
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 10 26 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 5.85% 3.98% 9.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 4.76% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 30
10th Percentile £55,800 - £36,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £39,087 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -13.64% +32.53%
75th Percentile £73,750 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,750 - £60,934
Leicestershire median annual salary £65,000 £43,734 £55,000
% change year-on-year +48.62% -20.48% +32.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 139 546 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 81.29% 83.49% 99.13%
Number of salaries quoted 82 292 187
10th Percentile £25,550 £26,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £50,498
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.94% +12.22%
75th Percentile £62,188 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £43,072 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% -13.86% +17.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Leicester

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Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Leicester

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Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Leicester over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 4 (40.00%) Appian
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Appian Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Principal Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) JPA
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Redux
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) Software Delivery
3 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (30.00%) BPMN
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) UML
5 3 (30.00%) Workflow
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
6 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
6 2 (20.00%) Line Management
6 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) People Management
6 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Solace