SDLC Job Trends in Southampton

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 51 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 -2
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2 11 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.36% 1.90% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 2.31% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 20
10th Percentile £59,625 £51,250 £46,125
25th Percentile £64,688 £52,813 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £82,188 £63,438 £69,438
90th Percentile £86,875 £68,750 £75,250
Hampshire median annual salary £57,772 £62,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year -7.57% +2.04% +11.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 434 476 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 78.34% 82.35% 91.75%
Number of salaries quoted 309 346 304
10th Percentile £29,950 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,625 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £61,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,175
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Southampton

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Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SDLC

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Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Southampton over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Southampton

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft