SDLC Job Trends in Oxford

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 40 35
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 -15
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 3 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 1.26% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.41% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% +41.18%
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £71,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% +41.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 193 245 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 80.75% 95.33% 92.00%
Number of salaries quoted 138 118 197
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,875 £38,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £47,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £95,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Oxford

SDLC
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) SDET
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript