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 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 129 97 47
Rank change year-on-year -32 -50 +19
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 54 145 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.65% 2.29% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.90% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 32 118 102
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £37,574 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £63,938 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £89,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -6.31%

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 3,090 4,994 4,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.18% 78.92% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 3,753 2,097
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,063 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 28 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 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
Cambridgeshire +35 17 £57,500 -12.37% 116
Bedfordshire -25 11 £70,000 +41.41% 80
Norfolk +12 9 £40,101 -5.65% 40
Hertfordshire -11 8 £47,750 -11.16% 132
Essex +12 5 £47,500 +5.56% 121
Suffolk -37 5 £52,500 +5.00% 38
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 15 (27.78%) Confluence
2 3 (5.56%) CMS
2 3 (5.56%) EPiServer
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
4 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (57.41%) Azure
2 20 (37.04%) AWS
3 14 (25.93%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.96%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.96%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.56%) Google Analytics
6 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.56%) Stripe
7 2 (3.70%) Serverless
8 1 (1.85%) Figma
8 1 (1.85%) IaaS
8 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.26%) Redis
3 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.56%) Looker
4 3 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (38.89%) JIRA
2 15 (27.78%) Bitbucket
2 15 (27.78%) Cucumber
2 15 (27.78%) GitLab
2 15 (27.78%) Maven
2 15 (27.78%) Selenium
2 15 (27.78%) SonarQube
2 15 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (5.56%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.70%) Eclipse
4 2 (3.70%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
2 15 (27.78%) Banking
2 15 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (12.96%) Law
4 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Games
6 3 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Legal
8 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) Head of Development
3 7 (12.96%) Head of Product Development
4 5 (9.26%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Applications Support
5 4 (7.41%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) E-Commerce Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Principal Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Senior
7 2 (3.70%) Junior Software Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (44.44%) React
2 17 (31.48%) CSS
2 17 (31.48%) HTML
3 15 (27.78%) JPA
3 15 (27.78%) Kafka
3 15 (27.78%) Redux
3 15 (27.78%) Spring
3 15 (27.78%) Spring Boot
4 13 (24.07%) .NET
4 13 (24.07%) Hibernate
5 7 (12.96%) HTML5 Canvas
6 6 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 6 (11.11%) Entity Framework
6 6 (11.11%) Node.js
7 5 (9.26%) REST
8 4 (7.41%) .NET Core
8 4 (7.41%) GraphQL
8 4 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (3.70%) Jest
9 2 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 17 (31.48%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (27.78%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.41%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (68.52%) Agile
2 31 (57.41%) Software Engineering
3 29 (53.70%) DevOps
4 27 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 24 (44.44%) Test Automation
6 22 (40.74%) Microservices
7 19 (35.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (31.48%) Performance Optimisation
9 16 (29.63%) Front End Development
10 15 (27.78%) Containerisation
10 15 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (27.78%) TDD
11 13 (24.07%) Clean Code
11 13 (24.07%) User Experience
12 12 (22.22%) Scrum
13 9 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
14 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
14 8 (14.81%) Project Management
15 7 (12.96%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) SQL
2 23 (42.59%) JavaScript
3 22 (40.74%) Java
4 15 (27.78%) C#
5 13 (24.07%) Python
6 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.70%) Ada
7 2 (3.70%) Rust
8 1 (1.85%) Bash
8 1 (1.85%) C
8 1 (1.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.70%) IIBA
3 1 (1.85%) ISEB
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (37.04%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (35.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (35.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Grafana
2 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Solace
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
3 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (5.56%) HubSpot
4 3 (5.56%) PayPal
5 1 (1.85%) Facebook
5 1 (1.85%) VMware