SDLC Job Trends in Cheltenham

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 28 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +10
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2 11 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 1.10% 7.28% 14.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 7.80% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile £32,625 - £39,625
25th Percentile £34,688 - £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 - £56,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.72%
75th Percentile £49,688 - £73,125
90th Percentile £52,875 - £75,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £41,250 £48,918 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.68% -14.93% +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 131 141 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 71.98% 93.38% 92.99%
Number of salaries quoted 98 71 199
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £35,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,875 £44,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -1.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

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Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing SDLC

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Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Cheltenham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Elixir
1 1 (50.00%) Erlang
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft