SDLC Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 120 67
Rank change year-on-year +23 -53 -12
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 102 77 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.51% 2.19% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.34% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 54 54 175
10th Percentile £41,263 £36,573 £36,953
25th Percentile £54,375 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £55,050 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.35% +0.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,938 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £80,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,558 3,288 6,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.64% 93.65% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 2,131 3,537
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.59% -0.91% +4.76%

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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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +14 53 £63,000 +19.43% 8
Buckinghamshire +6 40 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Oxfordshire -24 9 £70,000 +16.67% 2
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 7 (6.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Simulink
2 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.98%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (40.20%) Azure
2 29 (28.43%) Serverless
3 21 (20.59%) AWS
4 20 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (12.75%) GitHub
6 12 (11.76%) Azure Functions
6 12 (11.76%) Power Platform
7 11 (10.78%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (10.78%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (10.78%) Entra ID
8 10 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (6.86%) SaaS
10 6 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.92%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.92%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) Wireless
2 3 (2.94%) Broadband
3 2 (1.96%) FTP
3 2 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.43%) SQL Server
2 15 (14.71%) Relational Database
3 11 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.80%) RDBMS
5 8 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.84%) Power BI
6 7 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (23.53%) Git
2 20 (19.61%) JIRA
3 16 (15.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (12.75%) JUnit
5 10 (9.80%) JMeter
5 10 (9.80%) Mockito
6 8 (7.84%) Bitbucket
7 6 (5.88%) Visual Studio
8 5 (4.90%) GitLab
8 5 (4.90%) Selenium
9 3 (2.94%) Appium
9 3 (2.94%) TestNG
10 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.98%) Postman
11 1 (0.98%) Redmine
11 1 (0.98%) TestRail
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Finance
4 11 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.84%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Publishing
7 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.96%) Billing
8 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.98%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.98%) Automotive
9 1 (0.98%) Back Office
9 1 (0.98%) Electronics
9 1 (0.98%) Front Office
9 1 (0.98%) Games
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (45.10%) Developer
2 35 (34.31%) Senior
3 28 (27.45%) Software Engineer
4 16 (15.69%) Senior Developer
5 14 (13.73%) Java Developer
6 13 (12.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (10.78%) .NET Developer
9 8 (7.84%) C# Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Lead
11 6 (5.88%) Angular Developer
11 6 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Azure Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Product Manager
12 5 (4.90%) Project Manager
12 5 (4.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.51%) .NET
2 21 (20.59%) HTML
3 19 (18.63%) AngularJS
4 16 (15.69%) CSS
4 16 (15.69%) REST
4 16 (15.69%) Web Services
5 15 (14.71%) React
6 14 (13.73%) .NET Framework
7 13 (12.75%) ASP.NET
8 12 (11.76%) jQuery
9 11 (10.78%) Apache Camel
9 11 (10.78%) Entity Framework
9 11 (10.78%) Hibernate
9 11 (10.78%) Spring
9 11 (10.78%) Spring Boot
10 10 (9.80%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (9.80%) Sass
10 10 (9.80%) WireMock
11 9 (8.82%) CSS3
11 9 (8.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Algorithms
1 15 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.98%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.98%) IoT
6 1 (0.98%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.67%) Linux
2 15 (14.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.67%) Agile
2 41 (40.20%) DevOps
3 38 (37.25%) CI/CD
4 37 (36.27%) Software Engineering
5 25 (24.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 22 (21.57%) Microservices
7 22 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.65%) Scrum
8 18 (17.65%) TDD
9 17 (16.67%) Software Testing
10 16 (15.69%) BDD
10 16 (15.69%) Physics
11 15 (14.71%) Mathematics
11 15 (14.71%) Open Source
11 15 (14.71%) Parallel Programming
11 15 (14.71%) Performance Analysis
12 13 (12.75%) Project Management
13 12 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (10.78%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 48 (47.06%) Python
2 34 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 31 (30.39%) Java
4 30 (29.41%) C#
5 26 (25.49%) C
6 25 (24.51%) SQL
7 17 (16.67%) Bash
8 15 (14.71%) Fortran
9 12 (11.76%) C++
10 11 (10.78%) Shell Script
10 11 (10.78%) TypeScript
11 7 (6.86%) Go
12 6 (5.88%) PHP
12 6 (5.88%) PowerShell
12 6 (5.88%) T-SQL
13 4 (3.92%) Objective-C
13 4 (3.92%) VB.NET
14 3 (2.94%) Bicep
15 2 (1.96%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.98%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 32 (31.37%) Degree
2 30 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 19 (18.63%) Master's Degree
4 15 (14.71%) PhD
5 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.90%) ISEB
7 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (0.98%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.98%) GxP
4 1 (0.98%) ISO 15765
4 1 (0.98%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.98%) MISRA
4 1 (0.98%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (20.59%) Docker
2 11 (10.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.80%) Kibana
3 4 (3.92%) Terraform
4 2 (1.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.96%) Grafana
4 2 (1.96%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.96%) Sysdig
5 1 (0.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.80%) Dynatrace
2 10 (9.80%) Splunk
3 6 (5.88%) Xamarin
4 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.96%) HP
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle
5 2 (1.96%) SAP
6 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.98%) WSO2