SDLC Job Trends in South London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 56 34
Rank change year-on-year +26 -22 -16
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 16 32 27
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 3.31% 5.37% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 5.49% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 22
10th Percentile - £56,250 £41,025
25th Percentile - £60,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,000 £76,750
London median annual salary £80,000 £87,610 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.69% +16.81% -3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 409 583 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 84.50% 97.82% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 167 185 300
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,656 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% -8.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in South London

SDLC
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SDLC

SDLC
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Croydon +16 13 £70,000 +12.00%
Bromley +13 2 - -
Kingston Upon Thames +1 1 £80,000 -
SDLC
London

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon ECS
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon EKS
2 11 (68.75%) Serverless
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Ethernet
1 1 (6.25%) Modbus
1 1 (6.25%) Profibus
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (68.75%) RDBMS
1 11 (68.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) GIS
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Jenkins
1 11 (68.75%) JMeter
1 11 (68.75%) JUnit
1 11 (68.75%) Mockito
General
1 11 (68.75%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
1 13 (81.25%) Java Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Full-Stack Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Control Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) Spring
1 13 (81.25%) Spring Boot
2 11 (68.75%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (68.75%) Apache Camel
2 11 (68.75%) Hibernate
2 11 (68.75%) HTML
2 11 (68.75%) jQuery
2 11 (68.75%) JSON
2 11 (68.75%) REST
2 11 (68.75%) Web Services
2 11 (68.75%) WireMock
2 11 (68.75%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 13 (81.25%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Microservices
3 11 (68.75%) BDD
3 11 (68.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (68.75%) Process Management
3 11 (68.75%) TDD
3 11 (68.75%) Workflow
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Kanban
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 2 (12.50%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 11 (68.75%) Shell Script
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) HNC
4 1 (6.25%) HND
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kibana
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Dynatrace
1 11 (68.75%) Splunk
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Siemens