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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 102 103
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -56
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 40 1 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.75% 0.084% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 0.094% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 32 1 18
10th Percentile - - £46,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £58,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £79,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 1,695 1,059 1,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.28% 88.69% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,250 703 997
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 - 18 £55,000 -
Redhill - 9 £72,500 -
Reigate - 7 £112,500 -
Guildford -23 2 - -
Staines - 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 8 (20.00%) Confluence
1 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) SaaS
3 10 (25.00%) Azure
4 6 (15.00%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (7.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) GitLab
3 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Games
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Lead
2 15 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 12 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 12 (30.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 12 (30.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 12 (30.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 12 (30.00%) C# Developer
3 12 (30.00%) C# Software Developer
3 12 (30.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 12 (30.00%) Developer
3 12 (30.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Business Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) IT Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Platform Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (45.00%) .NET
2 12 (30.00%) CSS
2 12 (30.00%) HTML
2 12 (30.00%) Vue
3 6 (15.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Culture of Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (52.50%) Software Engineering
3 14 (35.00%) Microservices
4 12 (30.00%) CQRS
4 12 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (30.00%) Product Vision
4 12 (30.00%) Resource Allocation
4 12 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (27.50%) AI
5 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
6 10 (25.00%) Business Strategy
6 10 (25.00%) Change Management
7 9 (22.50%) Agile
8 8 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
8 8 (20.00%) Project Delivery
8 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 6 (15.00%) LLM
9 6 (15.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) C#
2 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.50%) C++
6 1 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
1 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Ansible
1 1 (2.50%) Grafana
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Google