SDLC Jobs in the City of London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 89 76
Rank change year-on-year -7 -13 +3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 47 96 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.32% 2.88% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 3.14% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 39 68 148
10th Percentile £46,500 £60,000 £51,162
25th Percentile £63,125 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £92,813 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,500 £114,125 £105,750
Central London median annual salary £83,750 £81,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.08% -4.41% +17.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,944 3,059 4,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.05% 91.89% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,473 2,402 3,648
10th Percentile £41,800 £41,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the City of London.

Salary trend for SDLC in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the City of London

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Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the City of London region over the 6 months to 19 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
London Bridge - 1 £120,000 -
SDLC
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.26%) Kinematics
2 2 (4.26%) Liferay
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Endur
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) AWS
2 6 (12.77%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) Snowflake
4 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) Akamai
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.13%) Datadog
6 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.13%) Figma
6 1 (2.13%) GCP
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.13%) Pulumi
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) Network Security
1 1 (2.13%) SAN
1 1 (2.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) Data Vault
2 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
2 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.51%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (2.13%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.51%) Retail
4 3 (6.38%) Games
5 2 (4.26%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Back Office
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Front Office
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
2 9 (19.15%) Senior Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Lead
4 4 (8.51%) ETRM Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (6.38%) Head of Delivery
5 3 (6.38%) Head of Development
5 3 (6.38%) Head of Software Development
5 3 (6.38%) Site Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Junior
6 2 (4.26%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) .NET
1 4 (8.51%) React
1 4 (8.51%) Web Services
2 3 (6.38%) CSS
2 3 (6.38%) HTML
2 3 (6.38%) Laravel
2 3 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.26%) Spring
4 1 (2.13%) CSS3
4 1 (2.13%) EDI
4 1 (2.13%) HTML5
4 1 (2.13%) J2EE
4 1 (2.13%) Kafka
4 1 (2.13%) Loki
4 1 (2.13%) Middleware
4 1 (2.13%) REST
4 1 (2.13%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (8.51%) Swaptions
2 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.26%) Robotics
3 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.13%) IoT
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Life Science
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.13%) PMI
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Agile
2 13 (27.66%) Software Engineering
3 11 (23.40%) DevOps
4 10 (21.28%) Project Management
5 9 (19.15%) Roadmaps
5 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
6 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (14.89%) ETRM
6 7 (14.89%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (14.89%) Strategic Roadmap
7 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.64%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (10.64%) Migration
8 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (8.51%) Decision-Making
9 4 (8.51%) IT Strategy
9 4 (8.51%) Project Delivery
9 4 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (8.51%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) Java
2 13 (27.66%) Python
3 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.77%) SQL
5 4 (8.51%) C++
5 4 (8.51%) VB
6 3 (6.38%) PHP
7 2 (4.26%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.13%) Bash
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.13%) ACSA
3 1 (2.13%) ACSP
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) CCSK
3 1 (2.13%) CCSP
3 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) ISSAP
3 1 (2.13%) PMP
3 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) COBIT
3 1 (2.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
3 4 (8.51%) Grafana
4 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.26%) Ansible
6 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) OpenLink
3 6 (12.77%) Oracle
4 4 (8.51%) Sybase
4 4 (8.51%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.13%) Adobe
5 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.13%) HP
5 1 (2.13%) Netskope
5 1 (2.13%) Okta
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) WatchGuard
5 1 (2.13%) Zscaler