SDLC Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 84 92
Rank change year-on-year +40 +8 -34
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 17 20 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.35% 1.27% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 1.61% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 13
10th Percentile £49,550 - £40,550
25th Percentile £53,125 £37,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,620 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% +7.93% +16.92%
75th Percentile £63,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £64,250 - £91,250
East of England median annual salary £48,250 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.50% -13.04% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 488 1,245 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 96.06% 78.90% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 313 932 566
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £26,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,540 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +3.81%
75th Percentile £66,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,979 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Cambridgeshire

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Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Cambridgeshire

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Cambridgeshire

SDLC
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Cambridge +35 9 £62,500 -18.03% 27
Huntingdon - 4 £57,500 -
St Neots - 1 - - 1
SDLC
East of England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Pipelines
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.88%) dbt
5 1 (5.88%) Figma
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Redis
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
1 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Maven
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (11.76%) Law
1 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Head of Development
4 2 (11.76%) Head of Product Development
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) .NET Framework
2 6 (35.29%) Entity Framework
2 6 (35.29%) React
3 5 (29.41%) Node.js
4 4 (23.53%) .NET Core
4 4 (23.53%) GraphQL
4 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 3 (17.65%) REST
6 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (11.76%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (11.76%) JPA
6 2 (11.76%) Kafka
6 2 (11.76%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (11.76%) LINQ
6 2 (11.76%) Redux
6 2 (11.76%) Spring
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
6 2 (11.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Robotics
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Software Engineering
2 11 (64.71%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
6 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (23.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (23.53%) Mathematics
7 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (23.53%) Microservices
7 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (23.53%) Physics
7 4 (23.53%) Scrum
7 4 (23.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) C#
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) Python
4 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Solace
3 1 (5.88%) Facebook
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle