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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 90 113
Rank change year-on-year -66 +23 -78
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 145 198 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.03% 2.87% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 3.02% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 103 130 245
10th Percentile £46,500 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,869 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +3.48% -
75th Percentile £85,625 £85,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,900 £79,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 10,653 6,564 12,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.93% 95.13% 85.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,126 3,545 10,037
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -8 75 £72,500 +0.71% 20
North West -63 63 £65,000 +12.93% 48
North East -33 7 £51,250 +10.81% 7
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 8 (5.52%) Confluence
2 6 (4.14%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.38%) JBoss
3 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.38%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.38%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.83%) AWS
2 30 (20.69%) SaaS
3 28 (19.31%) Azure
4 26 (17.93%) Amazon S3
4 26 (17.93%) Serverless
5 23 (15.86%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (15.86%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (13.10%) AWS Step Functions
8 18 (12.41%) Apigee
9 17 (11.72%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (5.52%) GitHub
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.14%) GCP
12 4 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.76%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) Network Security
2 1 (0.69%) Firewall
2 1 (0.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.72%) DynamoDB
1 17 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.21%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.38%) Power BI
8 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.69%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.69%) MySQL
8 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 20 (13.79%) GitLab
3 18 (12.41%) SonarQube
4 17 (11.72%) Cypress.io
4 17 (11.72%) Maven
5 13 (8.97%) JIRA
6 12 (8.28%) Git
7 2 (1.38%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.69%) JUnit
8 1 (0.69%) XCUITest
General
1 27 (18.62%) Finance
2 26 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.83%) Banking
5 6 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.76%) Advertising
8 2 (1.38%) Billing
8 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.38%) Retail
8 2 (1.38%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.69%) Digital Economy
9 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.69%) Games
9 1 (0.69%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (31.72%) Developer
2 40 (27.59%) Senior
3 28 (19.31%) Java Developer
4 18 (12.41%) Development Manager
5 16 (11.03%) Analyst
5 16 (11.03%) Software Development Manager
5 16 (11.03%) Software Manager
6 14 (9.66%) .NET Development Manager
6 14 (9.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (9.66%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) Business Analyst
8 12 (8.28%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.59%) .NET Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Data Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) Architect
12 8 (5.52%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (5.52%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) AWS Developer
13 7 (4.83%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.59%) .NET
2 33 (22.76%) Spring Boot
3 23 (15.86%) AngularJS
4 18 (12.41%) Spring
5 17 (11.72%) Gherkin
5 17 (11.72%) Jest
6 16 (11.03%) React
7 13 (8.97%) Node.js
8 11 (7.59%) CSS
8 11 (7.59%) REST
9 10 (6.90%) HTML
10 9 (6.21%) Kafka
10 9 (6.21%) RESTful
11 8 (5.52%) Web Services
12 7 (4.83%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.83%) ASP.NET
12 7 (4.83%) Vue
13 6 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (4.14%) Mustache
13 6 (4.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.83%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.38%) DataPower
8 1 (0.69%) CMDB
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.69%) IoT
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.69%) PMI
8 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.38%) Android
1 2 (1.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (71.03%) Agile
2 51 (35.17%) DevOps
3 48 (33.10%) CI/CD
4 39 (26.90%) Software Engineering
5 38 (26.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (19.31%) TDD
7 27 (18.62%) Microservices
8 24 (16.55%) Mentoring
9 22 (15.17%) Clean Code
9 22 (15.17%) Product Vision
9 22 (15.17%) Secure Coding
10 21 (14.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (14.48%) Resource Allocation
11 20 (13.79%) ITIL
12 19 (13.10%) Scrum
13 18 (12.41%) Data Modelling
13 18 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (11.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 16 (11.03%) Coaching
16 15 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.03%) Java
2 38 (26.21%) C#
3 25 (17.24%) SQL
4 22 (15.17%) TypeScript
5 18 (12.41%) Bash
6 17 (11.72%) Groovy
6 17 (11.72%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.52%) Python
8 6 (4.14%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.38%) Go
9 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.69%) Bicep
10 1 (0.69%) C
10 1 (0.69%) Rust
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.69%) Swift
10 1 (0.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (12.41%) ITIL Certification
2 17 (11.72%) AWS Certification
2 17 (11.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 12 (8.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.52%) Degree
5 2 (1.38%) CBAP
5 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.38%) HND
5 2 (1.38%) IIBA
5 2 (1.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.38%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.38%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.38%) SLA
3 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) NCSC
3 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 28 (19.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (11.72%) HP Fortify
2 10 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.52%) Databricks
3 4 (2.76%) IBM
3 4 (2.76%) Oracle
3 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.38%) Cognos
4 2 (1.38%) Okta
5 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.69%) Google
5 1 (0.69%) SAP