SDLC Job Trends in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 71 64
Rank change year-on-year -25 -7 -33
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 35 95 83
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.27% 3.45% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 3.70% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 28 47 63
10th Percentile £45,875 £39,086 £41,482
25th Percentile £53,125 £54,375 £48,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,188 £86,875 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,625 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.58% -4.07% +14.29%

All Process & 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 2,233 2,565 2,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 81.23% 93.14% 92.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 1,204 1,652
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,996
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

SDLC job vacancy trend 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 31 December 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 31 December 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
Bolton +14 1 £47,500 - 3
SDLC
North West

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) SaaS
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) DocumentDB
3 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Billing
5 1 (2.86%) Games
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Senior
2 7 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.71%) C# Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Java Automation Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Payments Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) .NET
2 5 (14.29%) RESTful
2 5 (14.29%) Spring
3 4 (11.43%) Kafka
3 4 (11.43%) React
3 4 (11.43%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.57%) OAuth
5 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.86%) CSS
6 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.86%) HTML
6 1 (2.86%) Middleware
6 1 (2.86%) Node.js
6 1 (2.86%) REST
6 1 (2.86%) Vue
6 1 (2.86%) Web Services
6 1 (2.86%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Cybercrime
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) Agile
2 16 (45.71%) Mentoring
3 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
4 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
5 10 (28.57%) Coaching
5 10 (28.57%) TDD
6 8 (22.86%) Microservices
6 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
7 7 (20.00%) API Design
7 7 (20.00%) B2B
7 7 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 7 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 7 (20.00%) DevOps
8 6 (17.14%) Data Science
8 6 (17.14%) ETL
8 6 (17.14%) Logical Data Model
8 6 (17.14%) Physical Data Model
8 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) Technical Debt
8 6 (17.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) C#
3 9 (25.71%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.57%) Rust
6 2 (5.71%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.86%) CISSP
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Databricks
2 2 (5.71%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.86%) IBM
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Moogsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk