SDLC Jobs in Cambridge

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 73 75
Rank change year-on-year +40 +2 -32
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 10 13 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.03% 1.27% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 1.56% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 13
10th Percentile £37,250 - £40,550
25th Percentile £46,250 £62,338 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £76,250 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +25.41% +21.60%
75th Percentile £63,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £91,250
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £57,500 £65,620 £60,800
% change year-on-year -12.37% +7.93% +21.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 234 833 865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 94.35% 81.51% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 143 637 368
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,350
25th Percentile £30,625 £42,500 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,125 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £87,500 £90,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Cambridge

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Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Cambridge

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Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Cambridge over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Head of Development
3 2 (20.00%) Head of Product Development
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Graduate
4 1 (10.00%) Graduate Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Node.js
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (20.00%) LINQ
3 2 (20.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 5 (50.00%) Physics
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft