SDLC Jobs in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 91 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 -67 +39
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 351 254 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.39% 2.58% 9.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 3.11% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 206 150 154
10th Percentile - £42,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £47,500 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +9.09% +20.23%
75th Percentile £58,943 £79,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £96,539 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,899
% change year-on-year -0.83% -0.66% -6.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,665 8,164 7,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 82.78% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,991 6,201 3,904
10th Percentile £25,856 £27,500 £31,077
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the North West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Lancashire -6 195 £50,055 -3.97% 46
Manchester +31 83 £67,500 -3.57% 133
Cheshire +21 60 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Merseyside +9 11 £65,000 +30.00% 15
Cumbria -82 2 £55,000 -21.43%
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 57 (16.24%) Confluence
2 3 (0.85%) IIS
2 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 135 (38.46%) Azure
2 117 (33.33%) AWS
3 49 (13.96%) GCP
4 11 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.14%) Figma
5 4 (1.14%) Google Workspace
5 4 (1.14%) Miro
5 4 (1.14%) Slack
6 3 (0.85%) Firebase
6 3 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (0.85%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.57%) SaaS
8 1 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.28%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.28%) FlexRay
2 1 (0.28%) MQTT
2 1 (0.28%) Wireless
2 1 (0.28%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (34.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.85%) Power BI
4 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.57%) KDB
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 135 (38.46%) JIRA
2 119 (33.90%) SonarQube
3 111 (31.62%) Selenium
4 110 (31.34%) Cucumber
5 109 (31.05%) Bitbucket
5 109 (31.05%) GitLab
5 109 (31.05%) Maven
5 109 (31.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (5.70%) Git
7 5 (1.42%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.14%) Balsamiq
9 3 (0.85%) JMeter
10 2 (0.57%) Postman
11 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.28%) Eclipse RCP
11 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.28%) TestComplete
General
1 161 (45.87%) Aerospace
2 131 (37.32%) Avionics
2 131 (37.32%) Finance
3 120 (34.19%) Banking
4 113 (32.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (19.94%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (19.94%) Investment Banking
5 70 (19.94%) Retail
6 32 (9.12%) Social Skills
7 14 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.14%) Legal
9 3 (0.85%) Law
9 3 (0.85%) Military
9 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Back Office
10 2 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.28%) Automotive
11 1 (0.28%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.28%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 146 (41.60%) Senior
2 133 (37.89%) Systems Engineer
3 131 (37.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 126 (35.90%) Software Engineer
5 32 (9.12%) Lead
6 16 (4.56%) Developer
7 13 (3.70%) Analyst
8 9 (2.56%) Senior Developer
9 6 (1.71%) Business Analyst
10 5 (1.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.42%) Java Developer
10 5 (1.42%) Security Engineer
10 5 (1.42%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (1.42%) Software Developer
10 5 (1.42%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (1.14%) .NET Developer
11 4 (1.14%) Development Analyst
11 4 (1.14%) Product Owner
11 4 (1.14%) Software Analyst
11 4 (1.14%) Software Development Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (34.19%) CSS
1 120 (34.19%) HTML
1 120 (34.19%) Spring
2 115 (32.76%) React
3 113 (32.19%) Kafka
4 109 (31.05%) JPA
4 109 (31.05%) Redux
4 109 (31.05%) Spring Boot
5 74 (21.08%) REST
5 74 (21.08%) RESTful
6 73 (20.80%) Sass
7 70 (19.94%) CSS3
7 70 (19.94%) HTML5
7 70 (19.94%) Jest
8 39 (11.11%) Hibernate
9 15 (4.27%) .NET
10 10 (2.85%) Node.js
11 9 (2.56%) XML
12 8 (2.28%) ASP.NET
13 7 (1.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 121 (34.47%) Product Ownership
2 112 (31.91%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (1.42%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.14%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.57%) PDA
7 1 (0.28%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.28%) Infotainment
7 1 (0.28%) Life Science
7 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.28%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.28%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.42%) Windows
2 4 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (45.30%) Agile
2 141 (40.17%) DevOps
3 135 (38.46%) Customer Requirements
4 132 (37.61%) Requirements Management
4 132 (37.61%) Software Engineering
5 131 (37.32%) Business Case
5 131 (37.32%) Feasibility Study
5 131 (37.32%) Hazard Analysis
5 131 (37.32%) Systems Engineering
6 130 (37.04%) Microservices
7 121 (34.47%) Test Automation
8 120 (34.19%) CI/CD
9 118 (33.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 114 (32.48%) Containerisation
11 111 (31.62%) Front End Development
12 109 (31.05%) Performance Optimisation
13 97 (27.64%) Mentoring
14 84 (23.93%) User Experience
15 72 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 71 (20.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 162 (46.15%) Java
2 155 (44.16%) SQL
3 124 (35.33%) JavaScript
4 76 (21.65%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.84%) C#
6 14 (3.99%) Python
7 6 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.14%) Go
9 3 (0.85%) C++
9 3 (0.85%) PHP
9 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.57%) Ada
10 2 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.28%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.28%) Bash
11 1 (0.28%) Bicep
11 1 (0.28%) Rust
11 1 (0.28%) VB
11 1 (0.28%) XAML
Qualifications
1 175 (49.86%) Degree
2 135 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.42%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.57%) CISSP
6 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.28%) CCSP
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.28%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.28%) HNC
6 1 (0.28%) HND
6 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (33.05%) QA
2 70 (19.94%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.71%) GDPR
4 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.42%) NIST
5 4 (1.14%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.14%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.85%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 131 (37.32%) Docker
2 4 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 128 (36.47%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 111 (31.62%) Solace
2 32 (9.12%) Oracle
3 14 (3.99%) Google
4 12 (3.42%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.42%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.57%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.28%) Facebook
8 1 (0.28%) Revolut