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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 86 60
Rank change year-on-year -10 -26 +5
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 85 276 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.39% 2.98% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 3.57% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 41 130 191
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,250 £72,433 £77,715
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,899
% change year-on-year -0.83% -0.66% -6.31%

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 3,324 7,721 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.29% 83.42% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 5,559 3,544
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
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 15 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 15 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 +28 35 £49,459 -5.79% 45
Bristol -2 23 £57,443 -8.09% 44
Devon +15 9 £56,250 +27.64% 14
Somerset +1 8 £77,500 +72.22% 6
Dorset -19 7 £40,101 -33.17% 9
Wiltshire +42 3 £55,000 +69.23% 6
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 6 (7.06%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Appian
3 1 (1.18%) Confluence
3 1 (1.18%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Magento
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.00%) Azure
2 8 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (8.24%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (7.06%) SaaS
5 5 (5.88%) AWS
5 5 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 5 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (5.88%) GitHub
5 5 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 5 (5.88%) Serverless
6 4 (4.71%) Figma
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.35%) GCP
7 2 (2.35%) Scribe Online
7 2 (2.35%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) 5G
1 4 (4.71%) SD-WAN
1 4 (4.71%) WAN
1 4 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.18%) OLAP
2 1 (1.18%) OLAP Cube
2 1 (1.18%) Power BI
2 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Git
1 10 (11.76%) Selenium
2 8 (9.41%) JIRA
2 8 (9.41%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.06%) Eclipse
3 6 (7.06%) Eclipse RCP
3 6 (7.06%) Postman
4 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.53%) TestRail
6 2 (2.35%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.35%) Gatling
6 2 (2.35%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.35%) Locust
6 2 (2.35%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.18%) JMeter
7 1 (1.18%) JUnit
7 1 (1.18%) Maven
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 27 (31.76%) Public Sector
2 16 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.94%) Finance
4 10 (11.76%) Retail
5 5 (5.88%) Banking
6 4 (4.71%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.18%) Law
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Military
8 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (45.88%) Senior
2 28 (32.94%) Java Engineer
3 27 (31.76%) Senior Java Engineer
4 20 (23.53%) Software Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Software Manager
8 5 (5.88%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.88%) Junior
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Manager
9 4 (4.71%) C Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Embedded C Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.71%) Real Time Embedded Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Real Time Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.65%) HTML
2 14 (16.47%) .NET
3 13 (15.29%) CSS
4 9 (10.59%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.06%) .NET Framework
5 6 (7.06%) JSP
5 6 (7.06%) Middleware
6 5 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (5.88%) Bootstrap
6 5 (5.88%) JSON
6 5 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (5.88%) XML
7 4 (4.71%) NgRx
7 4 (4.71%) RxJS
8 3 (3.53%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.53%) React
8 3 (3.53%) RESTful
9 2 (2.35%) Blazor
9 2 (2.35%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.35%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.06%) Client/Server
3 4 (4.71%) GNSS
3 4 (4.71%) Self-Driving Car
4 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.53%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.53%) N-Tier
4 3 (3.53%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.94%) Linux
2 8 (9.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (75.29%) Agile
2 32 (37.65%) Software Engineering
3 28 (32.94%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 13 (15.29%) CI/CD
5 13 (15.29%) DevOps
5 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
6 11 (12.94%) Project Management
6 11 (12.94%) UML
7 10 (11.76%) ETL
7 10 (11.76%) Unit Testing
8 9 (10.59%) Software Testing
9 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.41%) Scrum
10 7 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.24%) Mathematics
10 7 (8.24%) OO
11 6 (7.06%) Analytics
11 6 (7.06%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.94%) Java
2 19 (22.35%) C#
3 17 (20.00%) SQL
4 14 (16.47%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.47%) Python
5 5 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.88%) VB.NET
6 4 (4.71%) C
6 4 (4.71%) C++
7 3 (3.53%) Ada
7 3 (3.53%) Rust
8 2 (2.35%) VB
8 2 (2.35%) VB6
8 2 (2.35%) XAML
9 1 (1.18%) Bash
9 1 (1.18%) Fortran
9 1 (1.18%) Go
9 1 (1.18%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.18%) PHP
9 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
2 6 (7.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.71%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.47%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) PMO
3 1 (1.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Ansible
2 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) IBM
2 6 (7.06%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.71%) Intel
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.35%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) Adobe
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.18%) Databricks
6 1 (1.18%) Pega