SDLC Job Trends in Exeter

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +26
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 7 12 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Exeter 3.21% 5.71% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 6.90% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - - £57,188
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,608 £57,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £43,491 £59,375
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -26.75% +3.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £44,374 £60,469
90th Percentile £53,250 £52,812 £60,563
Devon median annual salary £47,500 £43,491 £59,375
% change year-on-year +9.22% -26.75% +18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 174 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 79.36% 82.86% 87.04%
Number of salaries quoted 125 105 76
10th Percentile £24,700 £27,598 £24,935
25th Percentile £29,750 £34,404 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £43,491 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +2.33% +8.17%
75th Percentile £48,750 £60,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £66,750
Devon median annual salary £40,000 £45,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.60% +0.56% +12.50%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Exeter

SDLC
Salary Trend in Exeter

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure App Service
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
2 2 (28.57%) Gatling
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
2 2 (28.57%) Locust
2 2 (28.57%) TestRail
2 2 (28.57%) Zephyr
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Core
1 4 (57.14%) Blazor
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Application Security
2 4 (57.14%) B2B
2 4 (57.14%) Clean Code
2 4 (57.14%) OWASP
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
2 2 (28.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA