SDLC Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 48 50
Rank change year-on-year -68 +2 +24
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 136 340 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.02% 5.52% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 5.84% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 81 165 259
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,501 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,753 5,824 6,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.25% 94.56% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,042 3,165 3,914
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,725 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +9.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SDLC in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Berkshire -25 76 £58,000 +10.48% 14
Oxfordshire -50 32 £54,500 +9.00% 6
Buckinghamshire -49 28 £49,500 -1.00% 10
SDLC
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.41%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.94%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.47%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.74%) Kinematics
Applications
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (6.62%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (27.94%) Azure
2 33 (24.26%) AWS
3 13 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
3 13 (9.56%) OneDrive
3 13 (9.56%) Power Platform
4 11 (8.09%) GitHub
5 10 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (6.62%) Power Automate
6 9 (6.62%) PowerApps
6 9 (6.62%) SaaS
6 9 (6.62%) ShareGate
7 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.88%) Serverless
8 5 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.68%) GCP
9 4 (2.94%) WhatsApp
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) BGP
1 4 (2.94%) DNS
1 4 (2.94%) SSL
1 4 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.29%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.35%) Power BI
5 7 (5.15%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.41%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.94%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.21%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.21%) Looker
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.47%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.47%) Impala
9 2 (1.47%) Sqoop
10 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.35%) JIRA
3 9 (6.62%) Bitbucket
3 9 (6.62%) Git
4 6 (4.41%) GitLab
5 5 (3.68%) MSTest
5 5 (3.68%) NUnit
6 2 (1.47%) JMeter
6 2 (1.47%) JUnit
6 2 (1.47%) Mockito
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.35%) Marketing
4 9 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.41%) Banking
7 4 (2.94%) Finance
8 2 (1.47%) Legal
8 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (33.82%) Developer
2 22 (16.18%) Senior
3 20 (14.71%) Project Manager
4 16 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 16 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 15 (11.03%) Full Stack Developer
5 15 (11.03%) Presales Manager
6 13 (9.56%) Lead
7 10 (7.35%) .NET Developer
7 10 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Associate Director
9 8 (5.88%) Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 8 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.15%) Junior
10 7 (5.15%) Research Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Research Software Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.68%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.71%) .NET
2 16 (11.76%) Kafka
3 13 (9.56%) AngularJS
3 13 (9.56%) ASP.NET
3 13 (9.56%) Spring Boot
4 12 (8.82%) ASP.NET MVC
5 11 (8.09%) .NET Framework
5 11 (8.09%) Entity Framework
6 10 (7.35%) Spring
7 9 (6.62%) React Native
7 9 (6.62%) REST
8 8 (5.88%) Apache Camel
8 8 (5.88%) Web Services
9 7 (5.15%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.15%) HTML
9 7 (5.15%) React
10 6 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.41%) CSS
10 6 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (4.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.41%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.41%) IoT
4 6 (4.41%) Social Network
5 5 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.68%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.68%) PMI
6 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.94%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.74%) Blog
9 1 (0.74%) FPGA
9 1 (0.74%) Robotics
9 1 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.56%) Linux
2 7 (5.15%) Unix
3 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (68.38%) Agile
2 39 (28.68%) DevOps
3 35 (25.74%) Full Stack Development
4 32 (23.53%) Roadmaps
5 30 (22.06%) Product Roadmap
6 27 (19.85%) Project Management
6 27 (19.85%) Scrum
7 26 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (18.38%) Microservices
8 25 (18.38%) Project Delivery
9 24 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (16.91%) Mentoring
11 22 (16.18%) Software Engineering
12 21 (15.44%) Computer Science
12 21 (15.44%) Kanban
13 20 (14.71%) TDD
14 19 (13.97%) Actionable Insight
15 18 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (11.76%) Product Backlog
17 15 (11.03%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.94%) Python
2 36 (26.47%) Java
3 34 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.38%) C#
5 15 (11.03%) SQL
6 14 (10.29%) C
7 13 (9.56%) Kotlin
8 9 (6.62%) Bash
8 9 (6.62%) Go
9 7 (5.15%) C++
9 7 (5.15%) Fortran
9 7 (5.15%) PHP
10 6 (4.41%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.68%) Scala
12 2 (1.47%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.47%) Ruby
13 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (25.00%) Degree
2 18 (13.24%) Master's Degree
3 17 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.35%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.35%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.62%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (5.15%) PhD
7 5 (3.68%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.94%) CSPO
9 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.74%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) QA
2 3 (2.21%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (18.38%) Docker
2 9 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.41%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.94%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (2.94%) Firmware
5 2 (1.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.41%) Ansible
2 6 (4.41%) Terraform
3 3 (2.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (30.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.62%) Nintex
3 6 (4.41%) WSO2
4 4 (2.94%) Oracle
4 4 (2.94%) Sparx
5 3 (2.21%) Google
6 2 (1.47%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.47%) Informatica
6 2 (1.47%) Splunk
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce