SDLC Jobs in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 64 64
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 293 336 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.20% 4.80% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 5.08% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 129 184 188
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,483 £34,325
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,625 £70,313
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,698 6,620 7,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.16% 94.53% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,535 3,691 4,984
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,892
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Gloucestershire -13 95 £51,250 -10.48% 6
Bristol -34 88 £62,500 +25.00% 14
Dorset +36 73 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Somerset +5 15 £45,000 -19.28% 9
Devon -3 12 £23,141 -54.85% 6
Cornwall -8 6 £45,000 +63.64% 2
Wiltshire -39 4 £32,500 -40.91% 3
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (1.37%) Confluence
1 4 (1.37%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.37%) Simulink
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (33.79%) AWS
2 89 (30.38%) Azure
3 29 (9.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (7.51%) GCP
5 13 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.39%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.71%) GitHub
7 5 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.71%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.37%) OCI
8 4 (1.37%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.02%) SaaS
10 2 (0.68%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (0.68%) Firebase
10 2 (0.68%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.68%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.34%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.60%) TCP/IP
2 33 (11.26%) DNS
3 29 (9.90%) DHCP
3 29 (9.90%) HTTP
4 4 (1.37%) BGP
4 4 (1.37%) Network Security
4 4 (1.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.68%) Multicast
5 2 (0.68%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.34%) Broadband
6 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.90%) SQL Server
2 22 (7.51%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.41%) MySQL
4 7 (2.39%) Power BI
4 7 (2.39%) RDBMS
5 6 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.71%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.37%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.37%) Looker
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle ODI
7 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (16.38%) JIRA
2 17 (5.80%) Visual Studio
3 15 (5.12%) Git
4 14 (4.78%) LabVIEW
5 11 (3.75%) Selenium
6 6 (2.05%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.71%) Maven
7 5 (1.71%) NetBeans
7 5 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.02%) Postman
10 2 (0.68%) JMeter
10 2 (0.68%) MSTest
10 2 (0.68%) NUnit
10 2 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.68%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
General
1 99 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 87 (29.69%) Finance
3 65 (22.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (11.26%) Aerospace
5 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.24%) Banking
6 25 (8.53%) Law
7 22 (7.51%) Marketing
8 16 (5.46%) Investment Banking
9 9 (3.07%) Legal
10 8 (2.73%) Retail
11 6 (2.05%) Aviation
12 5 (1.71%) Automotive
13 4 (1.37%) Electronics
13 4 (1.37%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.68%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (20.82%) Developer
2 58 (19.80%) Software Engineer
3 57 (19.45%) Senior
4 38 (12.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (11.26%) Architect
6 24 (8.19%) Lead
7 21 (7.17%) .NET Developer
7 21 (7.17%) Software Developer
8 20 (6.83%) Project Manager
9 17 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (5.46%) C# Developer
11 15 (5.12%) Cloud Architect
11 15 (5.12%) Presales Manager
11 15 (5.12%) Senior Architect
12 14 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (4.44%) Lead Architect
14 12 (4.10%) Analyst
14 12 (4.10%) Systems Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (3.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.41%) HTML
2 46 (15.70%) .NET
3 40 (13.65%) AngularJS
4 31 (10.58%) React
5 30 (10.24%) OpenID
5 30 (10.24%) SAML
6 21 (7.17%) CSS
7 19 (6.48%) .NET Framework
7 19 (6.48%) Spring
8 15 (5.12%) ASP.NET
9 13 (4.44%) Entity Framework
9 13 (4.44%) RESTful
10 11 (3.75%) .NET Core
10 11 (3.75%) Vue
11 10 (3.41%) Node.js
12 9 (3.07%) CSS3
12 9 (3.07%) HTML5
13 8 (2.73%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (2.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.60%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.24%) Cyberattack
3 17 (5.80%) Algorithms
3 17 (5.80%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.07%) GNSS
6 7 (2.39%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.39%) Social Network
6 7 (2.39%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.71%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.37%) PMI
8 4 (1.37%) Replication
9 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.34%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.09%) Linux
2 11 (3.75%) Windows
3 4 (1.37%) Android
3 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.68%) Windows 7
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.68%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.34%) Debian
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (68.60%) Agile
2 92 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (31.40%) Software Engineering
3 81 (27.65%) DevOps
4 62 (21.16%) Actionable Insight
5 55 (18.77%) Collaborative Working
6 53 (18.09%) Scrum
7 52 (17.75%) CI/CD
8 49 (16.72%) Project Management
9 44 (15.02%) Continuous Integration
9 44 (15.02%) Full Stack Development
9 44 (15.02%) Validation
10 40 (13.65%) Kanban
11 39 (13.31%) Cloud Security
12 36 (12.29%) Line Management
13 34 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (11.60%) OO
14 33 (11.26%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (10.92%) Continuous Deployment
16 30 (10.24%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.84%) Java
2 62 (21.16%) Python
3 58 (19.80%) JavaScript
4 45 (15.36%) C#
5 35 (11.95%) SQL
6 24 (8.19%) C++
7 19 (6.48%) Bash
8 17 (5.80%) C
9 16 (5.46%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.75%) PHP
11 10 (3.41%) Perl
12 9 (3.07%) MATLAB
12 9 (3.07%) Scala
13 6 (2.05%) R
14 5 (1.71%) Fortran
14 5 (1.71%) Go
15 4 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.37%) Swift
15 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (35.49%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.14%) DV Cleared
3 49 (16.72%) Degree
4 36 (12.29%) AWS Certification
5 33 (11.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (5.80%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.71%) CISA
8 5 (1.71%) CISM
8 5 (1.71%) CISSP
8 5 (1.71%) CRISC
9 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.37%) ISEB
9 4 (1.37%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.37%) SANS
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.68%) HNC
11 2 (0.68%) PMP
12 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.53%) QA
2 10 (3.41%) PMO
3 6 (2.05%) ISO 9001
3 6 (2.05%) TickIT
4 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.37%) NIST
5 2 (0.68%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) AQAP
System Software
1 45 (15.36%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) Firmware
3 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (22.87%) Terraform
2 45 (15.36%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.63%) Ansible
4 5 (1.71%) Argo
4 5 (1.71%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.83%) Google
3 13 (4.44%) Oracle
4 5 (1.71%) Atlassian
4 5 (1.71%) Databricks
5 4 (1.37%) Rockwell
5 4 (1.37%) Sparx
6 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.68%) Citrix
7 2 (0.68%) IBM
7 2 (0.68%) Samsung
7 2 (0.68%) SAP
7 2 (0.68%) Twitter
8 1 (0.34%) BT
8 1 (0.34%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.34%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.34%) Splunk