SDLC Job Trends in Surrey

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 91 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 -45 +7
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 6 25 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.55% 1.67% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.94% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 19
10th Percentile £64,250 £68,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +30.43% -8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £64,500
90th Percentile - £85,000 £85,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 953 1,290 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 86.72% 86.17% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 728 628 590
10th Percentile £27,040 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,375 £85,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Surrey

SDLC
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Surrey over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Surrey

SDLC
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Woking - 3 £85,000 - 2
Dorking - 1 £77,500 -
Guildford - 1 £57,500 - 11
SDLC
South East

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Development Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Software Development Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Software Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Integration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) B2B
2 3 (50.00%) B2C
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 3 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft