SDLC Jobs in Leicestershire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 65 21
Rank change year-on-year +34 -44 +43
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 40 45 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 5.76% 3.93% 11.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 4.51% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 32
10th Percentile £40,000 - £35,113
25th Percentile £47,250 £35,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £39,969 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +31.35% -22.01% +23.49%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £67,500 £60,889
East Midlands median annual salary £56,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.50% -9.09% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 997 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 92.22% 87.15% 98.13%
Number of salaries quoted 164 561 248
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,813 £31,250 £35,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% +9.64%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,250 £70,600
East Midlands median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £52,375
% change year-on-year -3.33% -14.08% +10.26%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Leicestershire

SDLC
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Leicestershire

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Leicestershire

SDLC
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hinckley -17 10 - - 1
Leicester +22 9 £56,750 +29.76% 47
Lutterworth -16 9 - - 1
Market Harborough - 2 £45,000 -
Wigston +3 1 - -
SDLC
East Midlands

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 6 (15.00%) Confluence
2 3 (7.50%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
1 4 (10.00%) Trello
2 2 (5.00%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) JIRA
2 6 (15.00%) Bitbucket
2 6 (15.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (15.00%) GitLab
2 6 (15.00%) Maven
2 6 (15.00%) Selenium
2 6 (15.00%) SonarQube
2 6 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) JMeter
3 1 (2.50%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.50%) Postman
3 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Banking
3 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (15.00%) Law
3 6 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Principal Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Instrumentation Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Project Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Software Implementation Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Appian Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (2.50%) Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.50%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (2.50%) QA Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) QA Tester
7 1 (2.50%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) React
2 6 (15.00%) CSS
2 6 (15.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (15.00%) HTML
2 6 (15.00%) JPA
2 6 (15.00%) Kafka
2 6 (15.00%) Redux
2 6 (15.00%) Spring
2 6 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.00%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) Playwright
4 1 (2.50%) SOAP
4 1 (2.50%) Swagger
4 1 (2.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (82.50%) Agile
2 28 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 26 (65.00%) Software Testing
4 22 (55.00%) Waterfall
5 13 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.00%) Clean Code
8 6 (15.00%) DevOps
8 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
8 6 (15.00%) Microservices
8 6 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (15.00%) Project Delivery
8 6 (15.00%) TDD
8 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.50%) Software Delivery
10 4 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
10 4 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (15.00%) Java
2 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.00%) C#
3 2 (5.00%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 19 (47.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Siemens
2 6 (15.00%) Solace
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft