SDLC Jobs in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 25 65
Rank change year-on-year -66 +40 -1
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 257 707 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.61% 9.04% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 9.45% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 151 142 206
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +12.30% +3.89%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,250 £63,438
90th Percentile £96,539 £70,000 £70,625
England median annual salary £61,500 £60,899 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.99% -6.31% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,161 7,481 8,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.83% 95.68% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6,195 3,903 5,259
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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
Manchester -92 114 £70,000 +31.46% 27
Merseyside -19 44 £50,000 +27.32% 2
Lancashire -21 41 £52,125 -13.13% 10
Cheshire -29 40 £60,000 +14.29% 18
Cumbria 0 15 £70,000 +40.99% 4
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 9 (3.50%) Confluence
2 8 (3.11%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (2.72%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.74%) Azure
2 58 (22.57%) AWS
3 13 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (5.06%) Amazon Kinesis
3 13 (5.06%) Amazon S3
4 12 (4.67%) SaaS
5 11 (4.28%) GitHub
6 10 (3.89%) Google Play
7 8 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (2.33%) GCP
9 5 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.95%) Collibra
9 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.17%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.39%) IaaS
12 1 (0.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.11%) BGP
1 8 (3.11%) DNS
1 8 (3.11%) SSL
1 8 (3.11%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.33%) Broadband
2 6 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.17%) Network Security
4 2 (0.78%) VoIP
5 1 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.12%) Relational Database
2 25 (9.73%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (8.95%) RDBMS
4 21 (8.17%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (7.00%) MySQL
6 17 (6.61%) Metadata
7 15 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 13 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.11%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.72%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.95%) MS Access
12 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.39%) ArangoDB
13 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (15.18%) Git
2 33 (12.84%) JIRA
3 14 (5.45%) Postman
4 10 (3.89%) Appium
5 9 (3.50%) GitLab
6 8 (3.11%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.95%) InstallShield
7 5 (1.95%) Spinnaker
8 3 (1.17%) Selenium
8 3 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (24.90%) Finance
2 57 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.00%) Aerospace
5 14 (5.45%) Banking
6 13 (5.06%) Legal
6 13 (5.06%) Retail
7 9 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.95%) Automotive
11 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Aviation
13 2 (0.78%) iGaming
13 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.39%) Mandarin Language
14 1 (0.39%) Marketing
14 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (18.68%) Developer
1 48 (18.68%) Project Manager
2 42 (16.34%) Senior
3 33 (12.84%) Lead
4 29 (11.28%) Architect
5 28 (10.89%) Presales Manager
6 25 (9.73%) Software Engineer
7 18 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (6.23%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.45%) Analyst
9 14 (5.45%) Senior Architect
10 13 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (5.06%) Technical Leader
11 12 (4.67%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.67%) Head of IT
12 11 (4.28%) IT Manager
12 11 (4.28%) Senior Data Architect
13 10 (3.89%) Android Developer
13 10 (3.89%) Senior Android Developer
13 10 (3.89%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.18%) .NET
2 29 (11.28%) JSON
3 24 (9.34%) REST
4 21 (8.17%) Spring Boot
5 17 (6.61%) Spring
6 15 (5.84%) .NET Framework
7 14 (5.45%) .NET Core
8 12 (4.67%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (3.89%) Android SDK
9 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.89%) React
10 9 (3.50%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (3.50%) SOAP
11 8 (3.11%) Node.js
11 8 (3.11%) RESTful
12 7 (2.72%) CSS
12 7 (2.72%) Entity Framework
12 7 (2.72%) Vue
13 6 (2.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.12%) Management Information System
2 23 (8.95%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (7.39%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.84%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.89%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.72%) Cyberattack
8 6 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.33%) Social Network
8 6 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.95%) Life Science
9 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.17%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.17%) PMI
12 2 (0.78%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.18%) Linux
2 27 (10.51%) Windows
3 11 (4.28%) Android
4 8 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.33%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (65.76%) Agile
2 93 (36.19%) Project Management
3 62 (24.12%) DevOps
4 58 (22.57%) CI/CD
5 54 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (19.84%) Actionable Insight
7 48 (18.68%) Project Delivery
7 48 (18.68%) Software Engineering
8 47 (18.29%) Agile Project Management
9 46 (17.90%) Computer Science
10 41 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (15.56%) Roadmaps
12 38 (14.79%) Scrum
13 36 (14.01%) Design Patterns
14 32 (12.45%) Software Delivery
15 31 (12.06%) Data Modelling
15 31 (12.06%) Presales
16 29 (11.28%) Kanban
17 26 (10.12%) Validation
18 25 (9.73%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.62%) C#
2 30 (11.67%) Java
3 24 (9.34%) JavaScript
3 24 (9.34%) SQL
4 15 (5.84%) PHP
5 10 (3.89%) C++
5 10 (3.89%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.95%) Python
6 5 (1.95%) VB
7 2 (0.78%) Ada
7 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.39%) RPG
8 1 (0.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 47 (18.29%) Degree
2 38 (14.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (11.67%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.61%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.67%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.89%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.89%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (1.56%) CISSP
10 4 (1.56%) PMP
11 3 (1.17%) HND
11 3 (1.17%) PgMP
12 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.39%) CCA
13 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.40%) QA
2 17 (6.61%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.89%) ISO 9000
4 10 (3.89%) NIST
5 9 (3.50%) SLA
6 7 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.39%) NCSC
9 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (7.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (12.45%) Terraform
2 25 (9.73%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (7.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.61%) Google
3 10 (3.89%) Oracle
4 9 (3.50%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.11%) Sparx
6 7 (2.72%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.33%) Veeam
8 5 (1.95%) IBM
9 3 (1.17%) BT
9 3 (1.17%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.78%) Twitter
10 2 (0.78%) VMware
11 1 (0.39%) IFS
11 1 (0.39%) SAP