SDLC Jobs in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 118 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 -49 -7
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 238 394 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.46% 2.24% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.68% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 158 232 368
10th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £36,713
25th Percentile £52,156 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -1.32% -6.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,915 14,700 13,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.05% 83.43% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 10,114 7,701
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,625
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,906 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Isle of Wight - 90 £73,000 - 3
Thames Valley -3 65 £52,500 - 57
Hampshire -25 36 £55,000 -6.38% 42
Buckinghamshire +38 33 £55,000 +13.40% 15
Berkshire -23 23 £52,000 -10.34% 26
Middlesex - 23 - - 2
Oxfordshire +18 9 £70,000 +33.33% 25
West Sussex +8 9 £57,500 -20.69% 21
Kent +29 7 £47,500 +46.15% 11
Surrey +31 4 £52,713 -12.15% 12
Sussex +19 2 £42,500 -29.17% 15
East Sussex +15 2 £57,500 -20.69% 4
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England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (3.78%) CMS
2 8 (3.36%) Confluence
2 8 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.52%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.10%) Apache
5 3 (1.26%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Sage 1000
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.42%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.42%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.01%) Azure
2 25 (10.50%) AWS
3 21 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (6.30%) PaaS
5 14 (5.88%) GCP
5 14 (5.88%) Serverless
6 10 (4.20%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.78%) GitHub
8 8 (3.36%) Azure Functions
9 6 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.52%) Google Analytics
10 5 (2.10%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.26%) ClickUp
11 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) Broadband
2 1 (0.42%) Internet
2 1 (0.42%) Intranet
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.92%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.78%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.36%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.52%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.26%) Power BI
7 2 (0.84%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.42%) DTS
8 1 (0.42%) MySQL
8 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (10.50%) Git
2 18 (7.56%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.56%) JIRA
2 18 (7.56%) Selenium
3 12 (5.04%) SonarQube
4 11 (4.62%) GitLab
5 10 (4.20%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.36%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.36%) Maven
6 8 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.94%) JUnit
8 5 (2.10%) Eclipse
8 5 (2.10%) Eclipse RCP
8 5 (2.10%) Mockito
9 4 (1.68%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.68%) SpecFlow
9 4 (1.68%) Subversion
9 4 (1.68%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.84%) SoapUI
General
1 40 (16.81%) Finance
2 38 (15.97%) Social Skills
3 12 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (4.62%) Banking
5 10 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.78%) Marketing
7 7 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.94%) Publishing
8 6 (2.52%) Law
8 6 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.10%) Aviation
9 5 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.68%) Electronics
10 4 (1.68%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.26%) Retail
11 3 (1.26%) Swedish Language
12 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.84%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (24.79%) Architect
2 58 (24.37%) Software Architect
3 43 (18.07%) Software Engineer
4 38 (15.97%) Developer
5 32 (13.45%) Lead
6 31 (13.03%) Senior
7 20 (8.40%) Software Manager
8 19 (7.98%) Engineering Manager
8 19 (7.98%) Software Engineering Manager
9 18 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (7.14%) .NET Developer
11 15 (6.30%) Security Engineer
12 14 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
12 14 (5.88%) C# Developer
13 12 (5.04%) Software Team Leader
13 12 (5.04%) Team Leader
14 11 (4.62%) Analyst
14 11 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (3.78%) Java Developer
16 7 (2.94%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (27.31%) Middleware
2 26 (10.92%) .NET
3 24 (10.08%) CSS
3 24 (10.08%) HTML
4 23 (9.66%) React
5 19 (7.98%) Kafka
6 18 (7.56%) Spring
6 18 (7.56%) Spring Boot
7 15 (6.30%) YAML
8 13 (5.46%) XML
9 12 (5.04%) Hibernate
10 11 (4.62%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.62%) REST
10 11 (4.62%) RESTful
11 10 (4.20%) ASP.NET
11 10 (4.20%) Redux
12 8 (3.36%) JPA
12 8 (3.36%) Node.js
13 6 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (2.52%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.66%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.30%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.88%) Acoustics
4 12 (5.04%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.36%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.52%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.68%) CPLD
9 4 (1.68%) FPGA
9 4 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.68%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.84%) Clustering
11 2 (0.84%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Biopharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.88%) Linux
2 9 (3.78%) Unix
3 7 (2.94%) Windows
4 3 (1.26%) Android
5 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (52.52%) Agile
2 118 (49.58%) Computer Science
3 103 (43.28%) DevOps
4 88 (36.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 85 (35.71%) Mentoring
6 76 (31.93%) Software Engineering
7 75 (31.51%) UML
8 66 (27.73%) Open Source
9 60 (25.21%) CI/CD
9 60 (25.21%) Design Patterns
9 60 (25.21%) Waterfall
10 59 (24.79%) Configuration Management
11 43 (18.07%) Test Automation
12 29 (12.18%) Software Testing
13 27 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (11.34%) Project Management
14 24 (10.08%) Microservices
15 23 (9.66%) OO
16 22 (9.24%) Coaching
16 22 (9.24%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.33%) C#
2 41 (17.23%) SQL
3 31 (13.03%) Ada
3 31 (13.03%) Python
4 30 (12.61%) Java
5 27 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 25 (10.50%) C
7 16 (6.72%) PowerShell
8 15 (6.30%) C++
9 9 (3.78%) Fortran
9 9 (3.78%) Rust
10 8 (3.36%) Bash
11 5 (2.10%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.68%) Clojure
12 4 (1.68%) Elixir
12 4 (1.68%) Scala
13 3 (1.26%) Go
13 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.84%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 135 (56.72%) Degree
2 108 (45.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 75 (31.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 58 (24.37%) Chartered Engineer
5 26 (10.92%) Master's Degree
6 15 (6.30%) Security Cleared
7 14 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.78%) PhD
9 8 (3.36%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.42%) PMP
10 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (24.37%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 17 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (6.72%) QA
4 15 (6.30%) NCSC
4 15 (6.30%) NIST
5 6 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.26%) GDPR
6 3 (1.26%) PMO
6 3 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.42%) GLP
8 1 (0.42%) GMP
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) GxP
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (10.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.68%) Grafana
2 4 (1.68%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.84%) Terraform
4 1 (0.42%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.36%) Solace
3 6 (2.52%) Google
4 4 (1.68%) Agilent
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle
5 3 (1.26%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.26%) SAP
6 2 (0.84%) Sage
6 2 (0.84%) VMware
7 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.42%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.42%) Snow
7 1 (0.42%) Splunk
7 1 (0.42%) Workday