SDLC Jobs in London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 132 57
Rank change year-on-year +44 -75 +11
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 457 574 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.60% 2.39% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 2.65% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 205 379 1,000
10th Percentile £53,000 £50,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -6.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,216 21,652 31,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.32% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,929 15,871 22,511
10th Percentile £41,700 £37,500 £42,789
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,055
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in London

SDLC
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SDLC in London

SDLC
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in London

SDLC
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London -21 49 £77,500 -7.46% 33
South London -13 5 - - 5
West London +10 1 £87,500 +62.79% 7
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 17 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.84%) CMS
4 9 (1.97%) Drupal
4 9 (1.97%) WordPress
5 7 (1.53%) Apache
6 6 (1.31%) Confluence
6 6 (1.31%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.09%) Liferay
7 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.88%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.66%) Kinematics
10 2 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.44%) Traefik
11 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.53%) Endur
3 4 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.88%) Shopify
4 2 (0.44%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (30.63%) AWS
2 106 (23.19%) Azure
3 37 (8.10%) Serverless
4 35 (7.66%) GCP
5 31 (6.78%) Amazon S3
6 30 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (5.03%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (3.94%) Power Platform
11 17 (3.72%) SaaS
12 16 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (3.50%) Datadog
12 16 (3.50%) GitHub
12 16 (3.50%) Power Automate
12 16 (3.50%) PowerApps
13 14 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (2.84%) Snowflake
15 10 (2.19%) PaaS
16 9 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.06%) Network Security
2 12 (2.63%) HTTP
3 9 (1.97%) Firewall
4 8 (1.75%) Multicast
4 8 (1.75%) VPN
5 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.88%) DNS
7 2 (0.44%) 4G
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
7 2 (0.44%) ICMP
7 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.44%) SAN
7 2 (0.44%) SSL
8 1 (0.22%) NAS
8 1 (0.22%) SSH
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.19%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.53%) NoSQL
3 31 (6.78%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (2.19%) Apache Hive
6 10 (2.19%) Data Lake
6 10 (2.19%) Redis
7 8 (1.75%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.75%) MySQL
8 7 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (1.53%) Big Data
8 7 (1.53%) KDB
9 6 (1.31%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.31%) Data Vault
9 6 (1.31%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.31%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (12.91%) Git
2 50 (10.94%) JIRA
3 46 (10.07%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.69%) JUnit
5 20 (4.38%) Cucumber
5 20 (4.38%) Maven
6 19 (4.16%) Mockito
7 17 (3.72%) GitLab
8 14 (3.06%) IntelliJ
8 14 (3.06%) Postman
9 13 (2.84%) Selenium
10 11 (2.41%) PowerBuilder
11 10 (2.19%) Cypress.io
11 10 (2.19%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.75%) JMeter
13 6 (1.31%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.31%) Mocha
13 6 (1.31%) Vite
14 4 (0.88%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.88%) Subversion
General
1 251 (54.92%) Finance
2 146 (31.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 145 (31.73%) Law
4 131 (28.67%) Banking
5 115 (25.16%) Social Skills
6 56 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
7 44 (9.63%) Marketing
8 24 (5.25%) Investment Banking
9 19 (4.16%) Front Office
9 19 (4.16%) Legal
9 19 (4.16%) Public Sector
10 18 (3.94%) Games
11 16 (3.50%) Retail
12 7 (1.53%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (28.45%) Software Engineer
2 116 (25.38%) Senior
3 105 (22.98%) Lead
4 92 (20.13%) Developer
5 62 (13.57%) Lead Software Engineer
6 47 (10.28%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (8.75%) Senior Developer
8 33 (7.22%) Java Engineer
9 31 (6.78%) Java Software Engineer
10 30 (6.56%) Python Engineer
10 30 (6.56%) Python Software Engineer
11 25 (5.47%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.16%) Lead Developer
13 18 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.72%) Analyst
14 17 (3.72%) Architect
14 17 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (3.50%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.28%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (15.32%) React
2 59 (12.91%) .NET
3 57 (12.47%) Spring
4 45 (9.85%) Kafka
5 41 (8.97%) REST
6 38 (8.32%) Spring Boot
7 31 (6.78%) CSS
8 29 (6.35%) RESTful
9 28 (6.13%) HTML
10 25 (5.47%) GraphQL
11 23 (5.03%) Web Services
12 20 (4.38%) SOAP
13 17 (3.72%) AngularJS
13 17 (3.72%) JMS
13 17 (3.72%) Node.js
14 16 (3.50%) FIX Protocol
15 15 (3.28%) ASP.NET
16 14 (3.06%) ActiveMQ
17 13 (2.84%) Django
18 12 (2.63%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 75 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 52 (11.38%) Algorithms
3 41 (8.97%) Management Information System
4 40 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (7.00%) Product Ownership
6 25 (5.47%) Mobile App
7 23 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (4.38%) Public Cloud
8 20 (4.38%) Reinsurance
9 19 (4.16%) Derivative
10 17 (3.72%) Data Structures
11 15 (3.28%) Equities
12 14 (3.06%) Credit Derivative
12 14 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (3.06%) Security Posture
13 13 (2.84%) Client/Server
14 12 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (2.19%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.94%) Linux
2 18 (3.94%) Unix
2 18 (3.94%) Windows
3 5 (1.09%) Android
3 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.66%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.44%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.22%) Debian
6 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (58.64%) Agile
2 191 (41.79%) Software Engineering
3 174 (38.07%) CI/CD
4 123 (26.91%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (23.19%) DevOps
6 88 (19.26%) Artificial Intelligence
6 88 (19.26%) Microservices
7 79 (17.29%) Test Automation
8 78 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (16.41%) Computer Science
10 71 (15.54%) Operational Stability
11 63 (13.79%) Analytics
12 55 (12.04%) Community of Practice
13 53 (11.60%) Machine Learning
14 51 (11.16%) Roadmaps
15 49 (10.72%) Mentoring
15 49 (10.72%) Project Management
16 44 (9.63%) Fintech
17 41 (8.97%) Architectural Design
17 41 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 177 (38.73%) Python
2 163 (35.67%) Java
3 94 (20.57%) SQL
4 72 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 45 (9.85%) C++
6 40 (8.75%) C#
7 34 (7.44%) TypeScript
8 33 (7.22%) Go
9 21 (4.60%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.38%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.63%) Scala
11 12 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.41%) C
13 10 (2.19%) Bash
14 6 (1.31%) Groovy
14 6 (1.31%) Rust
15 5 (1.09%) PHP
16 4 (0.88%) VB
17 3 (0.66%) Perl
17 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (21.44%) Degree
2 29 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.47%) Master's Degree
4 15 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.84%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.41%) PhD
6 11 (2.41%) SC Cleared
7 10 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.19%) CISSP
8 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.53%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.31%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.09%) CCSP
11 5 (1.09%) CISA
11 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.88%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.66%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.32%) QA
2 24 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.03%) GDPR
4 22 (4.81%) NIST
5 13 (2.84%) HIPAA
5 13 (2.84%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.31%) NCSC
7 6 (1.31%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.66%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.44%) COBIT
10 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.44%) GRC
10 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.44%) PMO
10 2 (0.44%) WCAG
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 67 (14.66%) Docker
2 8 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.31%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.09%) Apache Flume
5 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.66%) vSphere
6 2 (0.44%) KVM
6 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.44%) Xen
7 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 88 (19.26%) Kubernetes
2 70 (15.32%) Terraform
3 25 (5.47%) Ansible
4 14 (3.06%) Grafana
5 13 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.31%) Mesos
6 6 (1.31%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.09%) HP Fortify
7 5 (1.09%) Oozie
7 5 (1.09%) Puppet
8 3 (0.66%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.44%) Argo
9 2 (0.44%) CFEngine
9 2 (0.44%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 63 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.03%) IBM
3 21 (4.60%) Oracle
4 20 (4.38%) Google
5 10 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.97%) Databricks
6 9 (1.97%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.53%) OpenLink
8 6 (1.31%) Alibaba
8 6 (1.31%) SAP
8 6 (1.31%) Splunk
8 6 (1.31%) Sybase
9 5 (1.09%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.09%) Tanium
10 4 (0.88%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.88%) Remedy
10 4 (0.88%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.66%) NetApp