SDLC Job Trends in Wales

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 57 47
Rank change year-on-year -45 -10 +7
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 24 9 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.93% 1.16% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.39% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 21 7 33
10th Percentile £32,000 £53,250 £35,100
25th Percentile £50,468 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,375 £52,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £74,000 £61,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +2.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,689 648 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.52% 83.61% 66.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 485 838
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,375 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Wales

SDLC
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Wales over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Wales

SDLC
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Wales region over the 6 months to 7 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
South Wales -33 17 £56,250 -6.25% 7
West Wales - 7 £35,663 -
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MySQL
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.33%) Redis
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (12.50%) Bugzilla
3 3 (12.50%) Postman
3 3 (12.50%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) GitLab
4 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.33%) minitest
4 2 (8.33%) RSpec
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Senior
2 7 (29.17%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Manager
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Manual Tester
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) React
2 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (12.50%) NestJS
3 3 (12.50%) Node.js
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (12.50%) OpenID
3 3 (12.50%) Playwright
3 3 (12.50%) SAML
4 2 (8.33%) .NET
4 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (8.33%) Sidekiq
4 2 (8.33%) Vue
5 1 (4.17%) Next.js
5 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 15 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 13 (54.17%) DevOps
3 12 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (45.83%) Agile
5 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 8 (33.33%) Software Testing
7 7 (29.17%) Collaborative Engineering
7 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (29.17%) User Stories
8 6 (25.00%) Application Security
8 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (25.00%) Scrum
8 6 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (20.83%) Code Quality
9 5 (20.83%) Secure Coding
9 5 (20.83%) Sprint Retrospective
9 5 (20.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 4 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) Bash
4 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (8.33%) Ruby
6 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Google
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft