SDLC Job Trends in Devon

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Devon requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +1
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 17 18 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 2.90% 3.99% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 4.77% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 2
10th Percentile £40,770 - £57,188
25th Percentile £45,875 £42,608 £57,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,491 £59,375
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -26.75% +18.75%
75th Percentile £60,000 £51,406 £60,469
90th Percentile £63,750 £77,375 £60,563
South West median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% +12.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 439 377 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 74.91% 83.59% 77.72%
Number of salaries quoted 284 159 218
10th Percentile £25,650 £27,598 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,358 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £59,063 £65,000 £54,606
90th Percentile £77,844 £75,000 £61,225
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Devon

SDLC
Salary Trend in Devon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Devon over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Devon

SDLC
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Devon region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Exeter -2 8 £46,750 +7.49% 3
Plymouth -5 6 £47,500 - 7
SDLC
South West

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) Azure App Service
3 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
3 5 (29.41%) Serverless
4 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Selenium
2 7 (41.18%) Cypress.io
3 4 (23.53%) Git
4 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
5 2 (11.76%) Gatling
5 2 (11.76%) LoadRunner
5 2 (11.76%) Locust
5 2 (11.76%) TestRail
5 2 (11.76%) Zephyr
6 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) JUnit
6 1 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
1 5 (29.41%) Software Developer
2 4 (23.53%) QA Leader
2 4 (23.53%) Software Manager
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Software Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Development Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (11.76%) QA Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Software Development Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering Manager
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Blazor Developer
5 1 (5.88%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) .NET
1 9 (52.94%) .NET Core
2 5 (29.41%) Blazor
2 5 (29.41%) Playwright
3 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
3 4 (23.53%) React
4 1 (5.88%) Django
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.88%) Flask
4 1 (5.88%) pytest
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (41.18%) Regression Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
6 5 (29.41%) API Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Application Security
6 5 (29.41%) B2B
6 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
6 5 (29.41%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (29.41%) OWASP
6 5 (29.41%) Release Management
6 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) AI
7 4 (23.53%) Software Delivery
7 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) ISTQB
2 2 (11.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) QA
2 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle