SLSA Job Trends in the North of England

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SLSA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SLSA 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.011% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.068% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £53,750 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,466 2,482 2,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.61% 17.61% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 704 1,619 1,793
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,225 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

SLSA
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 SLSA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 4
SLSA
England

SLSA
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2