SDLC Jobs in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 96 51
Rank change year-on-year -34 -45 +12
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 38 146 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.28% 2.41% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.97% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28 120 91
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £37,574 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £55,313 £59,688 £71,875
90th Percentile £64,650 £70,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -0.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,776 4,921 5,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 93.41% 81.15% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,462 3,681 2,250
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,809 £27,725
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,254 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the East of England.

Salary trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cambridgeshire +37 14 £55,000 -16.18% 28
Norfolk +13 6 £40,101 -5.65% 11
Hertfordshire -10 6 £32,500 -38.10% 12
Bedfordshire -24 6 £47,500 -4.04% 6
Suffolk -27 4 £50,000 - 3
Essex +22 3 £47,500 +5.56% 5
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (7.89%) CMS
1 3 (7.89%) EPiServer
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Chatbot
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (15.79%) SaaS
3 5 (13.16%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Pipelines
4 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.89%) Google Analytics
5 3 (7.89%) Stripe
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.63%) dbt
7 1 (2.63%) Figma
7 1 (2.63%) GCP
7 1 (2.63%) IaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.53%) Power BI
2 4 (10.53%) Redis
3 3 (7.89%) Looker
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) JIRA
2 9 (23.68%) Git
3 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.89%) Visual Studio
5 2 (5.26%) Eclipse
5 2 (5.26%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 3 (7.89%) Games
4 3 (7.89%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Software Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Applications Support
5 4 (10.53%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Support Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) E-Commerce Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Test Development Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) .NET
2 11 (28.95%) .NET Framework
2 11 (28.95%) Entity Framework
3 7 (18.42%) CSS
3 7 (18.42%) HTML
4 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET
4 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (13.16%) CSS3
4 5 (13.16%) HTML5
4 5 (13.16%) LESS
4 5 (13.16%) Node.js
4 5 (13.16%) Sass
5 4 (10.53%) .NET Core
5 4 (10.53%) GraphQL
5 4 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.89%) React
6 3 (7.89%) REST
7 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Robotics
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) DevOps
2 15 (39.47%) Software Engineering
3 13 (34.21%) Project Management
4 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.42%) MVC
6 7 (18.42%) Scrum
7 6 (15.79%) Analytics
7 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (15.79%) ITSM
7 6 (15.79%) Mathematics
7 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 6 (15.79%) OO
7 6 (15.79%) Physics
7 6 (15.79%) Service Management
7 6 (15.79%) User Experience
8 5 (13.16%) Machine Learning
8 5 (13.16%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) SQL
2 14 (36.84%) C#
3 13 (34.21%) Python
4 12 (31.58%) Java
5 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
6 6 (15.79%) C
6 6 (15.79%) C++
7 5 (13.16%) Objective-C
7 5 (13.16%) PHP
7 5 (13.16%) T-SQL
8 2 (5.26%) Ada
8 2 (5.26%) Rust
8 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.26%) IIBA
4 1 (2.63%) ISEB
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
2 5 (13.16%) Xamarin
3 3 (7.89%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) HubSpot
3 3 (7.89%) PayPal
4 1 (2.63%) Facebook
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) VMware