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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 26 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +21
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 10 15 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 4.17% 5.10% 9.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 6.25% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 24
10th Percentile £51,400 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £40,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -18.18% +50.68%
75th Percentile £73,750 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £57,750 £60,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% -18.18% +50.68%

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 206 240 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 85.83% 81.63% 91.87%
Number of salaries quoted 148 129 205
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,600 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% -3.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,313 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% +11.11%

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
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Leicester over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Leicester

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
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%) Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Principal Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (30.00%) BPMN
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) UML
5 3 (30.00%) Workflow
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Groovy
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) SAP