SDLC Jobs in Dorset

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 32 63
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 +11
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 13 74 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 3.06% 6.01% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 7.05% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2 32 12
10th Percentile £37,991 £38,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £38,618 £50,000 £44,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,800 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £44,594 £65,000 £60,825
90th Percentile £44,988 £66,125 £65,715
South West median annual salary £57,443 £57,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -0.10% +2.22% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 397 1,049 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 93.41% 85.15% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 152 595 329
10th Percentile £28,800 £30,000 £31,850
25th Percentile £37,188 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,950 £66,250 £76,250
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Dorset

SDLC
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Dorset

SDLC
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bournemouth +11 2 - - 7
Poole +11 1 £43,500 -17.14%
SDLC
South West

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) CockroachDB
2 1 (7.69%) OLAP
2 1 (7.69%) OLAP Cube
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.69%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) LabVIEW
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
1 8 (61.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (61.54%) Law
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Marketing
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Junior
3 3 (23.08%) Python Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Junior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) React
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.69%) HTML5
4 1 (7.69%) Java EE
4 1 (7.69%) JMS
4 1 (7.69%) JSP
4 1 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
4 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
1 12 (92.31%) Software Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Operational Stability
4 7 (53.85%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (53.85%) Machine Learning
5 5 (38.46%) Community of Practice
5 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
6 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
6 3 (23.08%) User Experience
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
7 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
7 2 (15.38%) ETL
7 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
7 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
7 2 (15.38%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Ada
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Fortran
4 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
4 1 (7.69%) Rust
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase