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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 126 49
Rank change year-on-year +36 -77 +4
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 72 124 350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.61% 1.90% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.21% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 49 78 169
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% +4.19% -14.42%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,200 £87,500 £78,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%

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 2,581 5,623 5,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.58% 85.95% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,194 3,981 3,141
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,385 £50,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.59% -4.72% -3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,200 £82,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -

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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 1 April 2025.

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 1 April 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
Berkshire +9 34 £59,563 +2.69% 42
Buckinghamshire +54 31 £60,000 +17.07% 14
Oxfordshire +24 7 £70,000 +28.44% 19
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 9 (12.50%) CMS
1 9 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.33%) OpenStack
3 3 (4.17%) Kentico
4 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.39%) Serverless
2 16 (22.22%) AWS
3 15 (20.83%) Azure
4 14 (19.44%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (15.28%) Power Platform
6 9 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.33%) Google Analytics
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (6.94%) Azure Functions
8 5 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (4.17%) BigCommerce
10 3 (4.17%) ClickUp
10 3 (4.17%) Kontent
10 3 (4.17%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) FTP
1 2 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.39%) SQL Server
2 14 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (19.44%) Relational Database
3 9 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.39%) DTS
5 1 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) Git
1 15 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 11 (15.28%) JUnit
3 9 (12.50%) JIRA
3 9 (12.50%) JMeter
3 9 (12.50%) Mockito
4 5 (6.94%) Visual Studio
5 3 (4.17%) Subversion
6 1 (1.39%) Redmine
6 1 (1.39%) Selenium
6 1 (1.39%) TestRail
General
1 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Marketing
2 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Publishing
4 4 (5.56%) Finance
4 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.17%) Aviation
5 3 (4.17%) Electronics
5 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (51.39%) Developer
2 16 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (19.44%) .NET Developer
3 14 (19.44%) Java Developer
4 13 (18.06%) C# .NET Developer
4 13 (18.06%) C# Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Senior
5 11 (15.28%) Software Engineer
6 10 (13.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 9 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
7 9 (12.50%) Angular Developer
7 9 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
7 9 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 9 (12.50%) Software Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Azure Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Product Owner
9 5 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (5.56%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) .NET
2 18 (25.00%) HTML
3 15 (20.83%) Web Services
4 14 (19.44%) REST
4 14 (19.44%) Spring
4 14 (19.44%) Spring Boot
5 13 (18.06%) AngularJS
6 12 (16.67%) React
7 11 (15.28%) CSS
8 9 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (12.50%) Apache Camel
8 9 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 9 (12.50%) jQuery
8 9 (12.50%) WireMock
9 8 (11.11%) Mustache
10 7 (9.72%) ASP.NET
11 6 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (8.33%) Node.js
12 5 (6.94%) Kafka
12 5 (6.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (18.06%) Product Ownership
3 9 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 6 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (4.17%) CPLD
5 3 (4.17%) FPGA
6 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Linux
2 9 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Agile
2 24 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 18 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (25.00%) Scrum
3 18 (25.00%) TDD
4 17 (23.61%) Microservices
4 17 (23.61%) Project Delivery
5 15 (20.83%) Software Engineering
5 15 (20.83%) User Experience
6 11 (15.28%) BDD
6 11 (15.28%) DevOps
6 11 (15.28%) Software Testing
7 10 (13.89%) Physics
8 9 (12.50%) Business Analysis
8 9 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 9 (12.50%) Mathematics
8 9 (12.50%) Project Planning
8 9 (12.50%) SEO
8 9 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.11%) Python
2 23 (31.94%) JavaScript
3 19 (26.39%) C#
4 17 (23.61%) Java
5 13 (18.06%) C++
5 13 (18.06%) SQL
6 12 (16.67%) C
7 10 (13.89%) Fortran
8 9 (12.50%) Bash
8 9 (12.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.39%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.39%) Bicep
10 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.39%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.39%) PHP
10 1 (1.39%) R
10 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Degree
1 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.89%) Master's Degree
3 10 (13.89%) PhD
4 9 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) ISEB
5 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) GDPR
1 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.50%) Kibana
3 2 (2.78%) Grafana
3 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.78%) Terraform
4 1 (1.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 9 (12.50%) Splunk
3 6 (8.33%) Google
4 3 (4.17%) Agilent
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) VMware