SDLC Jobs in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 87 69
Rank change year-on-year -3 -18 -10
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 19 71 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.42% 2.21% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 2.69% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 19 48 115
10th Percentile £52,050 £37,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £59,375 £40,625 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -17.76% +21.60%
75th Percentile £140,677 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile - £80,000 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +40.00% -13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,264 2,643 4,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 94.19% 82.41% 98.14%
Number of salaries quoted 711 1,857 2,187
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,400 £33,300
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,390 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,886 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,964 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.90% +7.66%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in West Yorkshire

SDLC
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Leeds +24 18 £81,250 +47.73% 23
Bradford -1 1 £53,500 +38.96% 8
SDLC
Yorkshire

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
1 2 (10.53%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) GCP
2 7 (36.84%) SaaS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Wireless
1 1 (5.26%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
1 2 (10.53%) Redis
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.26%) CouchDB
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Gradle
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Maven
3 1 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (36.84%) Banking
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Games
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Tech for Good
5 1 (5.26%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Lead
2 7 (36.84%) Software Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Head of Development
6 2 (10.53%) Head of Software Development
7 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Digital Product Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior .NET Software Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) .NET
2 7 (36.84%) Kafka
2 7 (36.84%) React
3 6 (31.58%) Express.js
3 6 (31.58%) Node.js
4 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
5 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
5 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
5 2 (10.53%) Flask
5 2 (10.53%) Laravel
5 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (10.53%) REST
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.26%) pytest
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) SOAP
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.26%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Product Ownership
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
3 8 (42.11%) Software Testing
4 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 7 (36.84%) Low Latency
4 7 (36.84%) Roadmaps
5 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
5 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (31.58%) Operational Stability
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
7 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
7 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Microservices
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
8 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
8 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.53%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) C#
3 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
4 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
4 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
5 4 (21.05%) Java
5 4 (21.05%) Python
6 3 (15.79%) PHP
7 1 (5.26%) Assembly Language
7 1 (5.26%) C
7 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.26%) VMware