SDLC Jobs in Manchester

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 115 27
Rank change year-on-year +32 -88 +41
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 81 113 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.73% 2.10% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 2.47% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 35 62 91
10th Percentile £51,000 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £90,639 £94,279 £61,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £100,000 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.58% +9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,073 4,571 4,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.44% 85.09% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 3,465 2,488
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Manchester

SDLC
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Manchester

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Manchester

SDLC
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 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
Stockport +13 5 £59,500 +22.05% 42
Altrincham - 5 £55,000 - 7
Salford +16 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 5
Bolton - 3 - - 63
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
SDLC
North West

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 23 (28.40%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) IIS
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.17%) MS Visio
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 45 (55.56%) Azure
2 34 (41.98%) AWS
3 19 (23.46%) GCP
4 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.94%) Figma
5 4 (4.94%) Google Workspace
5 4 (4.94%) Miro
5 4 (4.94%) Slack
6 3 (3.70%) Firebase
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) Wireless
1 1 (1.23%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (43.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.70%) KDB
3 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (56.79%) JIRA
2 36 (44.44%) SonarQube
3 29 (35.80%) Selenium
4 28 (34.57%) Cucumber
5 27 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 27 (33.33%) GitLab
5 27 (33.33%) Maven
5 27 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (17.28%) Git
7 4 (4.94%) Balsamiq
7 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
8 3 (3.70%) JMeter
9 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.23%) Postman
9 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
General
1 52 (64.20%) Finance
2 37 (45.68%) Banking
3 31 (38.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (38.27%) Social Skills
4 18 (22.22%) Corporate Banking
4 18 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 18 (22.22%) Retail
5 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Law
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.23%) Back Office
9 1 (1.23%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (1.23%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.23%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 37 (45.68%) Software Engineer
2 12 (14.81%) Developer
3 11 (13.58%) Senior
4 10 (12.35%) Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) Business Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Digital Product Owner
7 4 (4.94%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.70%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Operations Business Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (48.15%) Spring
2 33 (40.74%) React
3 32 (39.51%) CSS
3 32 (39.51%) HTML
4 31 (38.27%) Kafka
5 29 (35.80%) Spring Boot
6 27 (33.33%) JPA
6 27 (33.33%) Redux
7 22 (27.16%) RESTful
8 21 (25.93%) Sass
9 19 (23.46%) REST
10 18 (22.22%) CSS3
10 18 (22.22%) HTML5
10 18 (22.22%) Jest
11 9 (11.11%) Hibernate
11 9 (11.11%) Node.js
12 6 (7.41%) .NET
13 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
13 5 (6.17%) Web Services
14 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 38 (46.91%) Product Ownership
2 29 (35.80%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Life Science
6 1 (1.23%) PDA
6 1 (1.23%) Smart Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (80.25%) Agile
2 50 (61.73%) DevOps
3 44 (54.32%) Microservices
4 41 (50.62%) Software Engineering
5 38 (46.91%) Mentoring
6 34 (41.98%) CI/CD
6 34 (41.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 32 (39.51%) Containerisation
7 32 (39.51%) Test Automation
8 31 (38.27%) User Experience
9 28 (34.57%) Front End Development
10 27 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 19 (23.46%) Migration
12 18 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
12 18 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
12 18 (22.22%) TDD
13 14 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (16.05%) Scrum
15 10 (12.35%) Clean Code
16 9 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 47 (58.02%) Java
2 38 (46.91%) JavaScript
3 35 (43.21%) SQL
4 23 (28.40%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.64%) Python
6 5 (6.17%) C#
7 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.47%) Go
8 2 (2.47%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.23%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (16.05%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (37.04%) QA
2 18 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.94%) GDPR
3 4 (4.94%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (59.26%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (37.04%) Solace
2 14 (17.28%) Google
3 8 (9.88%) Bloomberg
4 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.70%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.47%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.47%) IBM
6 2 (2.47%) Moogsoft
6 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.47%) Splunk
7 1 (1.23%) Facebook
7 1 (1.23%) Revolut