SDLC Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 46 43 57
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -41
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 11 17 10
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 1.75% 3.14% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 3.52% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £37,500 - £44,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,716 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £37,935 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% -48.56% +43.90%
75th Percentile £75,625 £50,327 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,125 £57,631 £84,375
Yorkshire median annual salary £66,250 £71,991 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.97% +19.99% +0.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 458 483 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 72.70% 89.28% 84.63%
Number of salaries quoted 341 182 438
10th Percentile £26,500 £35,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,424 £82,500 £75,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SDLC
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SDLC in South Yorkshire

SDLC
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield 0 11 £57,500 +51.58% 4
SDLC
Yorkshire

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) SaaS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) .NET Software Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
1 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Business Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) CSS3
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) HTML5
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
3 3 (27.27%) Coaching
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Data Science
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (27.27%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (9.09%) Line Management
5 1 (9.09%) People Management
5 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) COBIT
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft