SDLC Jobs in Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 43 75
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 -1
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 27 80 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.66% 3.59% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 4.91% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 22 48 45
10th Percentile £52,625 £37,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £60,625 £42,188 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.00% +11.11% -24.37%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - £53,750 £63,360
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.32% -2.72%

All Process and 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 1,296 1,630 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.80% 73.06% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 834 1,139 823
10th Percentile £24,062 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £33,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Wales

SDLC
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Wales.

Salary trend for SDLC in Wales

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Wales over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

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 10 July 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
South Wales -1 25 £73,000 +53.68% 26
West Wales +13 1 £37,733 -24.53%
North Wales +6 1 £40,101 - 1
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (7.41%) ColdFusion
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.70%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Retail
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Architect
1 15 (55.56%) Software Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
2 3 (11.11%) Software Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Development Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Lead
3 2 (7.41%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Software Team Leader
3 2 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Business Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (3.70%) Junior
4 1 (3.70%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) Middleware
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) XML
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) HTML
3 1 (3.70%) JSP
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
2 18 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (66.67%) UML
3 17 (62.96%) DevOps
3 17 (62.96%) Mentoring
4 16 (59.26%) Computer Science
5 15 (55.56%) Configuration Management
5 15 (55.56%) Design Patterns
5 15 (55.56%) Open Source
5 15 (55.56%) Waterfall
6 4 (14.81%) Scrum
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
7 3 (11.11%) OO
7 3 (11.11%) OOD
7 3 (11.11%) Project Management
7 3 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (7.41%) Business Process Modelling
8 2 (7.41%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (7.41%) Line Management
8 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Ada
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) C
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (70.37%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (62.96%) Degree
3 15 (55.56%) Chartered Engineer
3 15 (55.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Argo
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) PagerDuty