SDLC Jobs in Berkshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 84 68
Rank change year-on-year -21 -16 +3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 23 89 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.41% 2.77% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 3.26% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15 41 52
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £45,000 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £58,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +12.95% -10.70%
75th Percentile £65,500 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £91,250 £73,625
South East median annual salary £64,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.30% - -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,508 2,728 2,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.35% 84.93% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 544 1,807 1,581
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £75,313 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,625 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Berkshire

SDLC
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Berkshire

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Berkshire

SDLC
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Reading +6 12 £63,000 +8.62% 54
Maidenhead -33 1 £80,000 - 7
SDLC
South East

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (26.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
1 8 (34.78%) Serverless
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (21.74%) Azure
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (26.09%) Relational Database
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) JMeter
4 1 (4.35%) Mockito
General
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
1 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) React Developer
7 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) React
2 6 (26.09%) Mustache
2 6 (26.09%) REST
2 6 (26.09%) Spring
2 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
2 6 (26.09%) Web Services
3 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (21.74%) Kafka
3 5 (21.74%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Camel
4 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) jQuery
4 1 (4.35%) JSON
4 1 (4.35%) WireMock
4 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Algorithms
2 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
1 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
3 9 (39.13%) Microservices
3 9 (39.13%) Physics
4 8 (34.78%) Computer Science
4 8 (34.78%) Mathematics
4 8 (34.78%) Open Source
4 8 (34.78%) Parallel Programming
4 8 (34.78%) Performance Analysis
4 8 (34.78%) Software Testing
5 7 (30.43%) DevOps
6 6 (26.09%) TDD
7 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (21.74%) Scrum
8 3 (13.04%) Change Management
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
9 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) C++
2 9 (39.13%) Fortran
3 8 (34.78%) Bash
3 8 (34.78%) C
4 7 (30.43%) Java
4 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.35%) R
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
1 9 (39.13%) Master's Degree
1 9 (39.13%) PhD
2 8 (34.78%) DV Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.35%) Splunk
1 1 (4.35%) VMware