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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 98 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -29
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing SDLC 79 103 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.14% 2.25% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 2.74% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 28 57 90
10th Percentile £44,863 £43,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,500 £42,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +45.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £100,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,500 - £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.50%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,261 3,756 3,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.86% 82.17% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,318 2,264 2,136
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £34,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £73,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,071 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 August 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 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham - 6 £55,000 - 1
Stockport +10 4 £62,500 +28.21%
Bolton -11 3 - - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 1
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Salford - 3 - -
Wigan - 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 15 (18.99%) Confluence
2 4 (5.06%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 49 (62.03%) Azure
2 43 (54.43%) AWS
3 18 (22.78%) GCP
4 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.06%) Firebase
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.80%) Figma
6 3 (3.80%) Google Workspace
6 3 (3.80%) Miro
6 3 (3.80%) Slack
7 2 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Network Security
1 1 (1.27%) Wireless
1 1 (1.27%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (45.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.06%) KDB
4 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (50.63%) JIRA
2 29 (36.71%) Cucumber
2 29 (36.71%) GitLab
2 29 (36.71%) Selenium
2 29 (36.71%) SonarQube
3 27 (34.18%) Bitbucket
3 27 (34.18%) Maven
3 27 (34.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (12.66%) Git
5 5 (6.33%) JMeter
6 3 (3.80%) Balsamiq
6 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.53%) Gatling
General
1 51 (64.56%) Finance
2 30 (37.97%) Banking
2 30 (37.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (32.91%) Social Skills
4 18 (22.78%) Corporate Banking
4 18 (22.78%) Investment Banking
4 18 (22.78%) Retail
5 16 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.86%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.53%) Legal
9 1 (1.27%) Back Office
9 1 (1.27%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (1.27%) Marketing
9 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.27%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (39.24%) Software Engineer
2 12 (15.19%) Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Senior
4 9 (11.39%) Architect
5 8 (10.13%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.86%) AWS Architect
6 7 (8.86%) AWS Solution Architect
6 7 (8.86%) Azure Architect
6 7 (8.86%) Payments Architect
6 7 (8.86%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.86%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.86%) TOGAF Architect
7 5 (6.33%) Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Lead
8 4 (5.06%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Product Owner
8 4 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (41.77%) CSS
1 33 (41.77%) HTML
1 33 (41.77%) React
1 33 (41.77%) Spring
2 31 (39.24%) Kafka
2 31 (39.24%) Spring Boot
3 27 (34.18%) JPA
3 27 (34.18%) Redux
4 24 (30.38%) RESTful
5 22 (27.85%) Sass
6 18 (22.78%) CSS3
6 18 (22.78%) HTML5
6 18 (22.78%) Jest
6 18 (22.78%) REST
7 9 (11.39%) .NET
7 9 (11.39%) Hibernate
8 8 (10.13%) Web Services
9 6 (7.59%) AngularJS
10 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET
11 4 (5.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (46.84%) Product Ownership
2 29 (36.71%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (10.13%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.33%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.27%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.27%) PDA
7 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.27%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (75.95%) Agile
2 49 (62.03%) DevOps
3 39 (49.37%) CI/CD
4 37 (46.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (46.84%) Microservices
5 33 (41.77%) Software Engineering
6 32 (40.51%) Mentoring
7 31 (39.24%) Containerisation
8 30 (37.97%) Test Automation
9 29 (36.71%) Front End Development
10 27 (34.18%) Performance Optimisation
10 27 (34.18%) User Experience
11 19 (24.05%) Migration
12 18 (22.78%) Responsive Web Design
12 18 (22.78%) Strategic Thinking
13 15 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (15.19%) TDD
15 11 (13.92%) Clean Code
16 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
17 9 (11.39%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (51.90%) Java
2 36 (45.57%) JavaScript
3 35 (44.30%) SQL
4 23 (29.11%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.13%) C#
6 6 (7.59%) Python
7 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.53%) Bash
9 1 (1.27%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.27%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 7 (8.86%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.53%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (39.24%) QA
2 18 (22.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (51.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Firmware
2 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (44.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (39.24%) Solace
2 12 (15.19%) Google
3 7 (8.86%) Bloomberg
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.06%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.06%) IBM
5 4 (5.06%) Moogsoft
5 4 (5.06%) Splunk
5 4 (5.06%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.27%) Facebook
6 1 (1.27%) Revolut