SDLC Job Trends in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 124 116
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -51
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 80 40 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.08% 1.14% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.28% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 50 34 50
10th Percentile - £43,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,813 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +22.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,525 £75,313 £68,554
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,750 £81,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +2.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,931 3,114 4,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.63% 88.52% 78.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,581 1,526 2,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,875 £29,638
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,531 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -7.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SDLC
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Yorkshire

SDLC
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
West Yorkshire +9 68 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North Yorkshire +9 4 £45,000 -25.00% 1
South Yorkshire -41 4 £62,500 -10.71% 3
East Yorkshire -16 2 £29,330 -26.68% 3
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) AWS
2 16 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 16 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 16 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 16 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 16 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 16 (20.00%) Azure
2 16 (20.00%) Serverless
3 15 (18.75%) Amazon ECR
3 15 (18.75%) Apigee
4 14 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (12.50%) SaaS
6 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.00%) Power Automate
8 4 (5.00%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.75%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 16 (20.00%) GitLab
1 16 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 16 (20.00%) Maven
2 15 (18.75%) SonarQube
3 7 (8.75%) JIRA
4 3 (3.75%) Git
5 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.25%) Finance
3 19 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.50%) Banking
5 6 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Financial Institution
6 5 (6.25%) Agriculture
6 5 (6.25%) Automotive
7 3 (3.75%) Digital Economy
8 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (42.50%) Developer
2 21 (26.25%) Analyst
3 20 (25.00%) Senior
4 17 (21.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (20.00%) Business Analyst
6 15 (18.75%) Java Developer
6 15 (18.75%) Software Engineer
7 13 (16.25%) .NET Developer
7 13 (16.25%) .NET Software Developer
8 10 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
8 10 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
8 10 (12.50%) C# Developer
8 10 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
8 10 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
8 10 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 10 (12.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) AngularJS
2 19 (23.75%) .NET
3 16 (20.00%) Jest
3 16 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 15 (18.75%) Gherkin
4 15 (18.75%) Vue
5 13 (16.25%) CSS
5 13 (16.25%) HTML
5 13 (16.25%) React
6 6 (7.50%) Flutter
7 5 (6.25%) REST
8 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.75%) Spring
9 2 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
10 1 (1.25%) Blazor
10 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
10 1 (1.25%) Laravel
10 1 (1.25%) Node.js
10 1 (1.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.75%) EMV
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (61.25%) Agile
2 27 (33.75%) DevOps
3 24 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 22 (27.50%) Software Engineering
5 21 (26.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (23.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (23.75%) Secure Coding
7 18 (22.50%) ITIL
7 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 13 (16.25%) Business Analysis
9 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
9 13 (16.25%) Waterfall
10 12 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 11 (13.75%) Acceptance Criteria
11 11 (13.75%) Microservices
11 11 (13.75%) Resource Allocation
12 10 (12.50%) CQRS
12 10 (12.50%) Product Vision
12 10 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.00%) C#
2 23 (28.75%) TypeScript
3 19 (23.75%) Java
4 16 (20.00%) Bash
4 16 (20.00%) Groovy
5 13 (16.25%) SQL
6 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.00%) Python
8 3 (3.75%) COBOL
9 2 (2.50%) C
9 2 (2.50%) Dart
9 2 (2.50%) Go
9 2 (2.50%) RPG
9 2 (2.50%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.25%) PHP
10 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 14 (17.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 14 (17.50%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.75%) Degree
5 4 (5.00%) IIBA
6 3 (3.75%) CBAP
7 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.75%) ISO 8583
1 3 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (18.75%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) TOWER Software
3 3 (3.75%) HP
3 3 (3.75%) SAP
3 3 (3.75%) VocaLink
4 2 (2.50%) IBM
4 2 (2.50%) Sage
5 1 (1.25%) Databricks
5 1 (1.25%) Progress