SDLC Job Trends in Stafford

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Staffordshire > Stafford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stafford requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Stafford 1.23% 5.45% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 7.32% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile - - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% +21.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stafford

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 Stafford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 41 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stafford 55.56% 74.55% 66.27%
Number of salaries quoted 60 31 40
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £36,475
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,754 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -0.12% +24.28%
75th Percentile £60,000 - £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £70,000
Staffordshire median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £40,060
% change year-on-year +23.53% +6.09% -7.64%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Stafford

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Stafford

SDLC
Salary Trend in Stafford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stafford citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stafford citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stafford 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 2 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java