SDLC Jobs in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 76 95 66
Rank change year-on-year +19 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 115 269 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.24% 2.75% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 3.37% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 51 129 190
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,800 £36,173
25th Percentile £47,552 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year - +0.44% +9.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,433 £77,715
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -1.32% -6.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,300 7,971 6,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.04% 81.38% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 5,719 3,481
10th Percentile £27,225 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for SDLC in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +45 43 £57,500 +12.20% 32
Bristol +10 25 £57,471 -4.21% 41
Dorset -8 22 £41,800 -30.33% 10
Devon +13 12 £65,000 +47.49% 9
Somerset +5 10 £76,250 +69.44% 13
Wiltshire +45 3 £55,000 +69.23% 2
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (9.57%) Appian
2 7 (6.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.74%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.74%) Confluence
3 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.74%) SAP PP
1 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.87%) Magento
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.78%) Azure
2 15 (13.04%) AWS
3 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (5.22%) GitHub
5 6 (5.22%) SaaS
6 5 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 5 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.35%) Serverless
7 4 (3.48%) Figma
8 2 (1.74%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.74%) GCP
8 2 (1.74%) Scribe Online
9 1 (0.87%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.87%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) 5G
1 4 (3.48%) SD-WAN
1 4 (3.48%) WAN
1 4 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.87%) DNS
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (3.48%) MySQL
2 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.74%) Big Data
3 2 (1.74%) CockroachDB
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.87%) OLAP
4 1 (0.87%) OLAP Cube
4 1 (0.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Git
2 10 (8.70%) Selenium
3 8 (6.96%) Visual Studio
4 7 (6.09%) JIRA
5 6 (5.22%) Eclipse
5 6 (5.22%) Eclipse RCP
5 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.35%) Postman
7 4 (3.48%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.48%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.61%) JUnit
9 2 (1.74%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.74%) Gatling
9 2 (1.74%) GitLab
9 2 (1.74%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.74%) Locust
9 2 (1.74%) Maven
9 2 (1.74%) TestRail
9 2 (1.74%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
General
1 33 (28.70%) Public Sector
2 28 (24.35%) Finance
3 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
4 18 (15.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (13.91%) Law
6 14 (12.17%) Banking
7 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (8.70%) Marketing
9 9 (7.83%) Retail
10 4 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.87%) Automotive
12 1 (0.87%) Electronics
12 1 (0.87%) Military
12 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (43.48%) Senior
2 40 (34.78%) Java Engineer
3 33 (28.70%) Software Engineer
4 32 (27.83%) Senior Java Engineer
5 24 (20.87%) Developer
6 10 (8.70%) Appian Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Principal Developer
8 6 (5.22%) Junior
8 6 (5.22%) Lead
8 6 (5.22%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) .NET Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Software Manager
10 4 (3.48%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.78%) HTML
2 14 (12.17%) CSS
3 13 (11.30%) .NET
4 11 (9.57%) React
5 9 (7.83%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.96%) Spring
7 6 (5.22%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.22%) JSP
7 6 (5.22%) Kafka
7 6 (5.22%) Middleware
7 6 (5.22%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (4.35%) Bootstrap
8 5 (4.35%) JSON
8 5 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (4.35%) XML
9 4 (3.48%) NgRx
9 4 (3.48%) RxJS
10 3 (2.61%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.61%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.96%) Algorithms
3 7 (6.09%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.35%) Client/Server
4 5 (4.35%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.48%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.48%) GNSS
5 4 (3.48%) Self-Driving Car
6 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.74%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.30%) Linux
2 8 (6.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (80.87%) Agile
2 48 (41.74%) Artificial Intelligence
2 48 (41.74%) Software Engineering
3 30 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 26 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (17.39%) UML
5 20 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 19 (16.52%) Software Testing
7 16 (13.91%) Waterfall
8 15 (13.04%) DevOps
8 15 (13.04%) Operational Stability
8 15 (13.04%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.17%) Machine Learning
10 13 (11.30%) Mentoring
10 13 (11.30%) Project Management
10 13 (11.30%) Scrum
11 11 (9.57%) Software Delivery
11 11 (9.57%) Workflow
12 10 (8.70%) Community of Practice
12 10 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 63 (54.78%) Java
2 23 (20.00%) Python
3 20 (17.39%) SQL
4 19 (16.52%) JavaScript
5 17 (14.78%) C#
6 8 (6.96%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.35%) C++
7 5 (4.35%) VB.NET
8 4 (3.48%) C
9 3 (2.61%) Ada
9 3 (2.61%) Rust
10 2 (1.74%) VB
10 2 (1.74%) VB6
10 2 (1.74%) XAML
11 1 (0.87%) Bash
11 1 (0.87%) Fortran
11 1 (0.87%) Go
11 1 (0.87%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.87%) PHP
11 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (10.43%) Degree
2 9 (7.83%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.61%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.87%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.65%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) PMO
3 1 (0.87%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (6.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.61%) Terraform
3 2 (1.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.87%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Red Hat
2 11 (9.57%) IBM
3 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.83%) Oracle
4 4 (3.48%) Intel
5 3 (2.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.74%) Google
6 2 (1.74%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) Sybase
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe
7 1 (0.87%) Pega