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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 50 59
Rank change year-on-year -71 +9 +3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 134 326 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.01% 5.41% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 5.71% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 77 161 253
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £36,953
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £76,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £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 5,668 5,706 6,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.90% 94.74% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,915 3,100 3,897
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £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 £71,750
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% - +10.00%

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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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -12 78 £57,750 +12.46% 16
Oxfordshire -55 29 £52,500 +5.00% 10
Buckinghamshire -49 27 £49,500 +5.32% 9
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 (12.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.48%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.99%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.49%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) Kinematics
Applications
1 15 (11.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (8.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (26.87%) Azure
2 33 (24.63%) AWS
3 15 (11.19%) OneDrive
4 13 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (9.70%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (8.21%) GitHub
6 11 (8.21%) Power Automate
6 11 (8.21%) PowerApps
6 11 (8.21%) ShareGate
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.97%) Serverless
9 7 (5.22%) SaaS
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.73%) GCP
11 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.49%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (1.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) BGP
1 4 (2.99%) DNS
1 4 (2.99%) SSL
1 4 (2.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.19%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.45%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.96%) Power BI
5 7 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.24%) Looker
9 2 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.49%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.49%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.49%) Impala
9 2 (1.49%) Sqoop
10 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.46%) JIRA
3 9 (6.72%) Bitbucket
3 9 (6.72%) Git
4 6 (4.48%) GitLab
5 5 (3.73%) MSTest
5 5 (3.73%) NUnit
6 2 (1.49%) JMeter
6 2 (1.49%) JUnit
6 2 (1.49%) Mockito
7 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.75%) Selenium
7 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (8.21%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (6.72%) Marketing
5 8 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.48%) Banking
7 4 (2.99%) Finance
8 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (32.09%) Developer
2 20 (14.93%) Project Manager
3 19 (14.18%) Senior
4 17 (12.69%) Software Engineer
5 16 (11.94%) Java Developer
6 15 (11.19%) Full Stack Developer
6 15 (11.19%) Presales Manager
7 13 (9.70%) Lead
8 11 (8.21%) Associate Director
9 10 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) .NET Developer
10 8 (5.97%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Junior
11 7 (5.22%) Research Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Research Software Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Analyst
13 5 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) Scrum Master
14 4 (2.99%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.43%) .NET
2 16 (11.94%) Kafka
3 13 (9.70%) AngularJS
3 13 (9.70%) ASP.NET
3 13 (9.70%) Spring Boot
4 12 (8.96%) ASP.NET MVC
5 11 (8.21%) .NET Framework
5 11 (8.21%) Entity Framework
6 10 (7.46%) Spring
7 9 (6.72%) React Native
7 9 (6.72%) REST
8 8 (5.97%) Apache Camel
8 8 (5.97%) Web Services
9 7 (5.22%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.22%) React
10 6 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (4.48%) Node.js
10 6 (4.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 6 (4.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.97%) Algorithms
2 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.48%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.48%) IoT
3 6 (4.48%) Social Network
4 5 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.73%) PMI
5 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.49%) FPGA
7 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.75%) Blog
8 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.75%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.75%) Robotics
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.45%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Unix
3 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (69.40%) Agile
2 39 (29.10%) DevOps
3 33 (24.63%) Full Stack Development
3 33 (24.63%) Roadmaps
4 32 (23.88%) Product Roadmap
5 27 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (20.15%) Project Management
6 26 (19.40%) Scrum
7 25 (18.66%) Microservices
8 24 (17.91%) Project Delivery
9 22 (16.42%) Mentoring
9 22 (16.42%) Software Engineering
10 21 (15.67%) Computer Science
10 21 (15.67%) Kanban
10 21 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (14.93%) TDD
12 19 (14.18%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (14.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (11.94%) Product Backlog
14 15 (11.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.36%) Python
2 36 (26.87%) Java
3 32 (23.88%) JavaScript
4 23 (17.16%) C#
5 14 (10.45%) C
6 13 (9.70%) Kotlin
6 13 (9.70%) SQL
7 9 (6.72%) Bash
7 9 (6.72%) Go
8 8 (5.97%) C++
9 7 (5.22%) Fortran
10 6 (4.48%) PHP
10 6 (4.48%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.73%) Scala
12 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (26.87%) Degree
2 20 (14.93%) Master's Degree
3 17 (12.69%) Security Cleared
4 11 (8.21%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (7.46%) AWS Certification
5 10 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 10 (7.46%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.22%) PhD
7 5 (3.73%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.99%) CSPO
9 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.75%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) QA
2 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (18.66%) Docker
2 11 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.48%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (2.99%) Firmware
5 2 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.48%) Ansible
2 6 (4.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 40 (29.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.21%) Nintex
3 6 (4.48%) WSO2
4 4 (2.99%) Oracle
4 4 (2.99%) Sparx
5 3 (2.24%) Google
6 2 (1.49%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.49%) Informatica
6 2 (1.49%) Splunk
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce