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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 118 83
Rank change year-on-year +3 -35 -16
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing SDLC 274 308 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.51% 2.13% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.62% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 156 158 286
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,875 £37,125
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.96% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.80% -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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,774 11,774 9,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 89.62% 81.32% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,172 7,137 6,299
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,454 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £62,362
% change year-on-year -0.90% -11.00% +3.94%

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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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SDLC

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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 25 August 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Isle of Wight - 127 £73,000 - 1
Hampshire +3 60 £85,700 +49.04% 23
Thames Valley -61 43 £52,500 -8.70% 68
Buckinghamshire -15 18 £52,500 +5.00% 12
Berkshire -48 18 £55,000 -5.17% 42
Middlesex - 12 - - 2
West Sussex +3 11 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Kent +12 10 £85,700 +163.69% 4
Sussex - 9 £42,500 - 9
Oxfordshire +17 7 £50,000 -13.04% 16
East Sussex +16 1 - - 6
Surrey -9 1 £57,500 -4.17% 11
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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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Sage 1000
2 1 (0.36%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.68%) Azure
2 25 (9.12%) AWS
3 11 (4.01%) GCP
4 10 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.65%) PaaS
5 9 (3.28%) Serverless
6 8 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.82%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.09%) GitHub
10 2 (0.73%) SaaS
11 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.36%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.55%) RDBMS
5 6 (2.19%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.19%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.19%) Power BI
6 4 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.73%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.36%) DTS
8 1 (0.36%) MySQL
8 1 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (4.74%) Jenkins
1 13 (4.74%) JIRA
2 11 (4.01%) GitLab
2 11 (4.01%) JUnit
3 10 (3.65%) Mockito
4 9 (3.28%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.28%) Selenium
5 8 (2.92%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.92%) Maven
5 8 (2.92%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.55%) Git
6 7 (2.55%) JMeter
7 3 (1.09%) Subversion
8 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.73%) Spock
8 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.36%) Postman
9 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (12.04%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.49%) Finance
3 12 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.65%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.28%) Banking
6 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.82%) Swedish Language
8 4 (1.46%) Aviation
8 4 (1.46%) Billing
8 4 (1.46%) Retail
8 4 (1.46%) Social Housing
9 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.09%) Electronics
9 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Advertising
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 177 (64.60%) Architect
2 176 (64.23%) Software Architect
3 26 (9.49%) Developer
4 23 (8.39%) Lead
5 15 (5.47%) Software Engineer
6 12 (4.38%) Software Team Leader
6 12 (4.38%) Team Leader
7 11 (4.01%) Java Developer
7 11 (4.01%) Security Engineer
8 9 (3.28%) Analyst
9 8 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (2.92%) Project Manager
10 7 (2.55%) Engineering Manager
10 7 (2.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (2.55%) Software Engineering Manager
10 7 (2.55%) Software Manager
11 6 (2.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 6 (2.19%) Senior
12 5 (1.82%) C# .NET Developer
12 5 (1.82%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (64.96%) Middleware
2 21 (7.66%) XML
3 20 (7.30%) Spring
3 20 (7.30%) Spring Boot
4 19 (6.93%) HTML
5 18 (6.57%) Hibernate
6 15 (5.47%) .NET
7 14 (5.11%) Kafka
7 14 (5.11%) React
8 12 (4.38%) CSS
9 10 (3.65%) Redux
9 10 (3.65%) YAML
10 9 (3.28%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (3.28%) JSON
10 9 (3.28%) REST
11 8 (2.92%) JPA
11 8 (2.92%) Web Services
12 7 (2.55%) ASP.NET
12 7 (2.55%) jQuery
12 7 (2.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.38%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.65%) Security Posture
4 8 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.09%) CPLD
7 3 (1.09%) FPGA
7 3 (1.09%) IoT
8 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.73%) Clustering
8 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.36%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.36%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.46%) Windows
1 4 (1.46%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.73%) Android
2 2 (0.73%) Linux
2 2 (0.73%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (83.58%) Agile
2 204 (74.45%) DevOps
3 198 (72.26%) Computer Science
3 198 (72.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 191 (69.71%) Mentoring
5 189 (68.98%) UML
6 180 (65.69%) Waterfall
7 178 (64.96%) Configuration Management
7 178 (64.96%) Design Patterns
7 178 (64.96%) Open Source
8 36 (13.14%) CI/CD
9 35 (12.77%) Software Engineering
10 27 (9.85%) Test Automation
11 20 (7.30%) Microservices
12 18 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (6.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (6.20%) OO
13 17 (6.20%) TDD
14 16 (5.84%) OOD
15 15 (5.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.95%) SQL
2 25 (9.12%) JavaScript
3 23 (8.39%) Java
4 17 (6.20%) C
4 17 (6.20%) Python
5 16 (5.84%) C#
6 12 (4.38%) Ada
7 10 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.55%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.19%) C++
10 4 (1.46%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.46%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.46%) VBA
11 2 (0.73%) Bash
11 2 (0.73%) Fortran
11 2 (0.73%) Groovy
11 2 (0.73%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.36%) Go
12 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 204 (74.45%) Degree
2 194 (70.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 189 (68.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 176 (64.23%) Chartered Engineer
5 14 (5.11%) Security Cleared
6 13 (4.74%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.55%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.09%) PhD
8 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.09%) PMP
9 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (64.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 16 (5.84%) QA
3 10 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.65%) NCSC
3 10 (3.65%) NIST
4 2 (0.73%) PMO
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (7.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Kibana
3 2 (0.73%) Grafana
3 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.92%) Solace
3 7 (2.55%) Dynatrace
3 7 (2.55%) Splunk
4 5 (1.82%) SAP
5 4 (1.46%) Sage
5 4 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.09%) Agilent
6 3 (1.09%) Workday
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe
8 1 (0.36%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.36%) SendGrid
8 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.36%) Snow