SDLC Job Trends in the North of England

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 91 93
Rank change year-on-year -53 +2 -62
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 136 234 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.26% 2.57% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.83% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 100 114 196
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,716 £37,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,780 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,313 £79,688 £72,635
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,875 £84,056
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in the North of England

SDLC
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the North of England

SDLC
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Yorkshire +23 82 £66,250 -7.97% 38
North West -69 46 £62,500 +8.58% 54
North East -9 8 £50,000 -16.67% 15
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (4.41%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.68%) Confluence
3 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.47%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.47%) HCL Notes
4 2 (1.47%) IIS
4 2 (1.47%) JBoss
4 2 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.94%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 60 (44.12%) AWS
2 36 (26.47%) SaaS
3 32 (23.53%) Azure
4 18 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (11.03%) Serverless
6 14 (10.29%) Amazon S3
7 13 (9.56%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (9.56%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.88%) GitHub
10 7 (5.15%) Amazon ECR
10 7 (5.15%) Apigee
10 7 (5.15%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.68%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.68%) GCP
12 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) Network Security
2 2 (1.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.91%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.29%) Data Lake
2 14 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (10.29%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.15%) DynamoDB
4 6 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.21%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.74%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.74%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.74%) Power BI
8 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.09%) Git
3 10 (7.35%) GitLab
3 10 (7.35%) SonarQube
4 9 (6.62%) Cypress.io
5 7 (5.15%) Maven
6 5 (3.68%) JIRA
7 2 (1.47%) Storybook
8 1 (0.74%) Appium
8 1 (0.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Postman
8 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 36 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.44%) Finance
4 4 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.21%) Advertising
6 2 (1.47%) Back Office
6 2 (1.47%) Banking
6 2 (1.47%) Billing
6 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.47%) Legal
6 2 (1.47%) Marketing
6 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.47%) Retail
7 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.74%) Games
7 1 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (27.21%) Senior
2 35 (25.74%) Developer
3 19 (13.97%) Java Developer
4 18 (13.24%) Development Manager
5 17 (12.50%) Software Development Manager
5 17 (12.50%) Software Manager
6 14 (10.29%) .NET Development Manager
7 13 (9.56%) Analyst
8 12 (8.82%) Data Engineer
9 11 (8.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (8.09%) Software Engineer
10 10 (7.35%) Architect
10 10 (7.35%) Business Analyst
10 10 (7.35%) Lead
10 10 (7.35%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.15%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.68%) Applications Specialist
12 5 (3.68%) Applications Support
12 5 (3.68%) Applications Support Specialist
12 5 (3.68%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (36.76%) .NET
2 22 (16.18%) React
3 18 (13.24%) Spring Boot
4 17 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 16 (11.76%) CSS
6 14 (10.29%) ASP.NET
6 14 (10.29%) HTML
6 14 (10.29%) Spring
7 12 (8.82%) RESTful
8 11 (8.09%) Node.js
8 11 (8.09%) REST
9 10 (7.35%) Kafka
10 8 (5.88%) Jest
10 8 (5.88%) Web Services
11 7 (5.15%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.15%) Gherkin
12 6 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (4.41%) Mustache
13 5 (3.68%) Flutter
13 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.97%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.47%) DataPower
5 2 (1.47%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.74%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.74%) IoT
6 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.74%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.74%) PMI
6 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.74%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Android
2 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (70.59%) Agile
2 41 (30.15%) DevOps
3 38 (27.94%) CI/CD
4 36 (26.47%) Software Engineering
5 30 (22.06%) Mentoring
6 29 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (15.44%) Coaching
8 21 (15.44%) TDD
9 20 (14.71%) Data Modelling
9 20 (14.71%) Microservices
10 18 (13.24%) Clean Code
10 18 (13.24%) Scrum
11 17 (12.50%) Product Vision
12 16 (11.76%) Resource Allocation
13 14 (10.29%) Data Engineering
13 14 (10.29%) Test Automation
14 13 (9.56%) Data Integration
14 13 (9.56%) ETL
14 13 (9.56%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.29%) C#
2 43 (31.62%) Java
3 37 (27.21%) SQL
4 25 (18.38%) JavaScript
5 11 (8.09%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.62%) Python
7 7 (5.15%) Bash
7 7 (5.15%) Groovy
7 7 (5.15%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.41%) Go
9 5 (3.68%) PHP
10 4 (2.94%) Scala
11 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.21%) Rust
11 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.47%) C++
13 1 (0.74%) Bicep
13 1 (0.74%) C
13 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (8.82%) Degree
2 8 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (5.15%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 7 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) CISSP
5 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.68%) QA
2 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.47%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.47%) NCSC
4 1 (0.74%) COBIT
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (13.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.15%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.56%) Databricks
3 7 (5.15%) Oracle
4 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.21%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.47%) Lotus
7 1 (0.74%) IBM
7 1 (0.74%) Moogsoft
7 1 (0.74%) Sage
7 1 (0.74%) SAP
7 1 (0.74%) Splunk