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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 93 97
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -48
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 26 5 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.04% 0.44% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.49% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 20 5 14
10th Percentile - £64,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £76,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £121,250 - £82,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

All Process & 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 1,942 1,012 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 77.71% 89.96% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 678 698
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -17.81% -0.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 13 October 2026.

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 13 October 2026. 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 -10 11 £70,000 -17.65% 8
Reigate - 7 £112,500 - 5
Redhill - 4 £75,000 - 2
Farnham - 1 £80,000 - 1
Staines - 1 - - 1
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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
1 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Business One
1 1 (3.85%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) GCP
3 5 (19.23%) SaaS
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
5 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (11.54%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (65.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (46.15%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Games
5 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Lead
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) .NET Developer
3 5 (19.23%) .NET Software Developer
3 5 (19.23%) .NET Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (19.23%) C# Developer
3 5 (19.23%) C# Software Developer
3 5 (19.23%) C# Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Platform Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Principal Architect
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Business One Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) .NET
2 6 (23.08%) .NET Core
3 5 (19.23%) CSS
3 5 (19.23%) HTML
3 5 (19.23%) Vue
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Culture of Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) AI
5 8 (30.77%) Collaborative Culture
5 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
6 7 (26.92%) Change Management
6 7 (26.92%) Microservices
7 6 (23.08%) Business Strategy
7 6 (23.08%) Observability
7 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (23.08%) Strategic Roadmap
7 6 (23.08%) Technology Transformation
8 5 (19.23%) CQRS
8 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (19.23%) Generative AI
8 5 (19.23%) LLM
8 5 (19.23%) Product Vision
8 5 (19.23%) Resource Allocation
8 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) C#
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) Python
4 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
1 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) SAP