SDLC Job Trends in Leicester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 21 37
Rank change year-on-year -44 +16 -20
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 1 10 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.12% 5.38% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 6.54% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £55,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £62,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +43.59% -11.36%
75th Percentile £47,500 £73,750 £55,313
90th Percentile - £77,750 £55,875
Leicestershire median annual salary £37,500 £67,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -44.44% +42.11% -13.64%

All Process & 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 630 153 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 73.77% 82.26% 78.20%
Number of salaries quoted 422 82 177
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,625 £82,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £45,390 £45,000
% change year-on-year +21.17% +0.87% -14.29%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Leicester

SDLC
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft