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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 27 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +33
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 12 14 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 5.29% 4.78% 11.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.09% 5.93% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 28
10th Percentile £52,700 £34,750 £35,125
25th Percentile £57,813 £40,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.18% +50.68%
75th Percentile £73,750 £51,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,625 £56,250 £60,240
Leicestershire median annual salary £67,500 £43,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +54.29% -20.45% +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 197 236 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 86.78% 80.55% 91.73%
Number of salaries quoted 122 124 204
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £52,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% -0.48% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,375 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +16.67%

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 3 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 (33.33%) Appian
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Electronics
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Appian Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Principal Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) JPA
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) Redux
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
1 9 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 3 (25.00%) BPMN
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) UML
4 3 (25.00%) Workflow
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Line Management
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Solace