SDLC Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 111 31
Rank change year-on-year +22 -80 +37
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 420 412 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.58% 2.33% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 2.81% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 268 267 415
10th Percentile £45,307 £37,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £44,375 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £59,145 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -6.31%

All Process and 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 11,149 14,685 16,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.03% 83.04% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,758 11,267 7,931
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,716 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the North of England.

Salary trend for SDLC in the North of England

SDLC
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
North West +15 353 £50,055 -16.58% 173
Yorkshire +2 41 £70,000 +40.00% 59
North East +21 26 £60,000 -2.04% 39
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 60 (14.29%) Confluence
2 5 (1.19%) Apache
3 4 (0.95%) IIS
4 3 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Kentico
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) iTrent
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
1 1 (0.24%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.24%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 152 (36.19%) Azure
2 130 (30.95%) AWS
3 62 (14.76%) GCP
4 17 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (2.38%) SaaS
6 5 (1.19%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.95%) Figma
7 4 (0.95%) Google Workspace
7 4 (0.95%) Miro
7 4 (0.95%) PaaS
7 4 (0.95%) Slack
8 3 (0.71%) Firebase
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.48%) GitHub
9 2 (0.48%) Serverless
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.24%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) HTTP
1 2 (0.48%) Wireless
1 2 (0.48%) ZigBee
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) FlexRay
2 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (30.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.95%) MySQL
4 4 (0.95%) Power BI
4 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.71%) Redis
5 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.48%) KDB
6 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.24%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.24%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 142 (33.81%) JIRA
2 122 (29.05%) SonarQube
3 114 (27.14%) GitLab
3 114 (27.14%) Selenium
4 113 (26.90%) Cucumber
4 113 (26.90%) Maven
5 112 (26.67%) Bitbucket
5 112 (26.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 23 (5.48%) Git
7 6 (1.43%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.95%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.95%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.95%) Eclipse RCP
9 3 (0.71%) JMeter
10 2 (0.48%) Postman
11 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.24%) Gradle
11 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
General
1 162 (38.57%) Aerospace
2 150 (35.71%) Finance
3 131 (31.19%) Avionics
3 131 (31.19%) Banking
4 116 (27.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (17.86%) Retail
6 72 (17.14%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (17.14%) Investment Banking
7 52 (12.38%) Social Skills
8 26 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.38%) Legal
10 5 (1.19%) Games
10 5 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.19%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.95%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.71%) Law
12 3 (0.71%) Marketing
12 3 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 158 (37.62%) Senior
2 147 (35.00%) Software Engineer
3 133 (31.67%) Systems Engineer
4 131 (31.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 43 (10.24%) Lead
6 32 (7.62%) Developer
7 19 (4.52%) Analyst
8 17 (4.05%) Senior Developer
9 12 (2.86%) .NET Developer
10 11 (2.62%) Business Analyst
11 9 (2.14%) Security Engineer
11 9 (2.14%) Software Developer
12 7 (1.67%) C# Developer
12 7 (1.67%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (1.43%) Architect
13 6 (1.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (1.43%) Java Developer
13 6 (1.43%) Junior
13 6 (1.43%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (1.43%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (30.48%) CSS
1 128 (30.48%) HTML
2 127 (30.24%) React
3 124 (29.52%) Spring
4 123 (29.29%) Kafka
5 114 (27.14%) Spring Boot
6 112 (26.67%) JPA
6 112 (26.67%) Redux
7 79 (18.81%) RESTful
8 77 (18.33%) REST
9 75 (17.86%) Sass
10 72 (17.14%) CSS3
10 72 (17.14%) HTML5
10 72 (17.14%) Jest
11 40 (9.52%) Hibernate
12 35 (8.33%) .NET
13 16 (3.81%) Node.js
14 10 (2.38%) .NET Core
14 10 (2.38%) ASP.NET
15 9 (2.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 135 (32.14%) Product Ownership
2 115 (27.38%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 7 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 7 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.67%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.43%) Cyber Security Posture
6 6 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.43%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.48%) PDA
9 2 (0.48%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.38%) Linux
2 9 (2.14%) Windows
3 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (45.48%) Agile
2 167 (39.76%) Software Engineering
3 163 (38.81%) DevOps
4 140 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 136 (32.38%) Customer Requirements
6 135 (32.14%) Microservices
7 132 (31.43%) Business Case
7 132 (31.43%) Feasibility Study
7 132 (31.43%) Requirements Management
8 131 (31.19%) Hazard Analysis
8 131 (31.19%) Systems Engineering
8 131 (31.19%) Test Automation
9 125 (29.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 119 (28.33%) Containerisation
11 118 (28.10%) Mentoring
12 116 (27.62%) Front End Development
13 113 (26.90%) Performance Optimisation
14 90 (21.43%) User Experience
15 82 (19.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 74 (17.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 179 (42.62%) Java
2 177 (42.14%) SQL
3 139 (33.10%) JavaScript
4 85 (20.24%) TypeScript
5 43 (10.24%) C#
6 28 (6.67%) Python
7 7 (1.67%) PHP
7 7 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.43%) C++
8 6 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.19%) Ada
9 5 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.95%) C
10 4 (0.95%) Go
10 4 (0.95%) Rust
11 2 (0.48%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.48%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.24%) VB
12 1 (0.24%) XAML
Qualifications
1 196 (46.67%) Degree
2 138 (32.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.48%) CISSP
5 2 (0.48%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.48%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.24%) CCSP
6 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.24%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.24%) HNC
6 1 (0.24%) HND
6 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (28.57%) QA
2 72 (17.14%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.38%) GDPR
5 9 (2.14%) NIST
6 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.95%) NCSC
6 4 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.48%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (34.05%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 139 (33.10%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.38%) Terraform
3 3 (0.71%) Grafana
3 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 114 (27.14%) Solace
2 39 (9.29%) Oracle
3 23 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.29%) Google
5 6 (1.43%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.48%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.24%) Facebook
8 1 (0.24%) IBM
8 1 (0.24%) Moogsoft
8 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.24%) Revolut
8 1 (0.24%) Sage
8 1 (0.24%) SAP
8 1 (0.24%) Splunk
8 1 (0.24%) VMware