SDLC Jobs in the South West

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 60 62
Rank change year-on-year -31 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 265 337 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.83% 5.04% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 5.33% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 132 194 201
10th Percentile £35,100 £35,483 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% -6.31% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,769 6,318 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.00% 94.48% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,597 3,510 5,009
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,050 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,488 £65,720
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,689 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the South West.

Salary trend for SDLC in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Bristol -37 81 £61,250 +22.50% 19
Dorset +28 75 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Gloucestershire -23 67 £51,250 -15.71% 8
Devon -3 16 £44,071 -16.69% 4
Somerset -5 16 £45,000 -19.28% 7
Cornwall -15 6 £45,000 +63.64% 2
Wiltshire -38 4 £32,500 -31.58% 4
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England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (1.51%) Confluence
1 4 (1.51%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) CMS
3 1 (0.38%) SAS
3 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.51%) Simulink
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.51%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (32.83%) Azure
2 69 (26.04%) AWS
3 22 (8.30%) GCP
4 14 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.64%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.89%) GitHub
6 5 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (1.89%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (1.51%) OCI
7 4 (1.51%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.13%) SaaS
8 3 (1.13%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.75%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (0.75%) Firebase
9 2 (0.75%) Serverless
10 1 (0.38%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) Network Security
1 5 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.51%) BGP
2 4 (1.51%) DNS
2 4 (1.51%) SSL
3 2 (0.75%) Multicast
3 2 (0.75%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.38%) Broadband
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.92%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.40%) MySQL
4 7 (2.64%) Power BI
5 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.26%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.89%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.51%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.51%) Looker
7 4 (1.51%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.51%) Oracle ODI
7 4 (1.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.38%) Power Query
8 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (20.00%) JIRA
2 20 (7.55%) Git
2 20 (7.55%) Visual Studio
3 14 (5.28%) LabVIEW
4 11 (4.15%) Selenium
5 8 (3.02%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.26%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.89%) Maven
7 5 (1.89%) NetBeans
7 5 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.51%) MSTest
8 4 (1.51%) NUnit
8 4 (1.51%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.51%) Postman
9 2 (0.75%) JMeter
9 2 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.75%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.75%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 71 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.13%) Finance
3 39 (14.72%) Aerospace
4 36 (13.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (10.94%) Banking
7 25 (9.43%) Law
7 25 (9.43%) Marketing
8 16 (6.04%) Investment Banking
9 9 (3.40%) Legal
10 8 (3.02%) Retail
11 7 (2.64%) Aviation
12 6 (2.26%) Automotive
13 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.51%) Electronics
14 4 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.75%) Japanese Language
16 2 (0.75%) Military
16 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (23.77%) Software Engineer
2 56 (21.13%) Developer
3 44 (16.60%) Senior
4 39 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (8.68%) Lead
6 21 (7.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (7.55%) Software Developer
8 19 (7.17%) .NET Developer
8 19 (7.17%) Project Manager
9 16 (6.04%) Architect
10 15 (5.66%) C# Developer
11 13 (4.91%) Presales Manager
12 12 (4.53%) Lead Architect
13 11 (4.15%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (3.77%) Analyst
14 10 (3.77%) Senior Developer
15 9 (3.40%) C# .NET Developer
15 9 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
16 8 (3.02%) Angular Developer
16 8 (3.02%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.74%) .NET
2 37 (13.96%) AngularJS
3 29 (10.94%) React
4 20 (7.55%) CSS
4 20 (7.55%) HTML
5 19 (7.17%) .NET Framework
6 16 (6.04%) Spring
7 15 (5.66%) Entity Framework
8 14 (5.28%) RESTful
9 13 (4.91%) .NET Core
9 13 (4.91%) ASP.NET
10 12 (4.53%) Vue
11 10 (3.77%) Node.js
12 8 (3.02%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (3.02%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (3.02%) Spring Boot
13 7 (2.64%) CSS3
13 7 (2.64%) HTML5
13 7 (2.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 6 (2.26%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.79%) Public Cloud
2 17 (6.42%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.53%) GNSS
4 10 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.64%) Social Network
6 7 (2.64%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.89%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.89%) Replication
8 4 (1.51%) PMI
9 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.38%) Blog
10 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.38%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.38%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 60 (22.64%) Linux
2 13 (4.91%) Windows
3 4 (1.51%) Android
3 4 (1.51%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 2 (0.75%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.75%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.38%) Debian
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (62.26%) Agile
2 97 (36.60%) Software Engineering
3 88 (33.21%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (29.43%) DevOps
5 59 (22.26%) Collaborative Working
6 55 (20.75%) Actionable Insight
6 55 (20.75%) CI/CD
7 54 (20.38%) Scrum
8 49 (18.49%) Validation
9 48 (18.11%) Project Management
10 45 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
11 42 (15.85%) Kanban
12 39 (14.72%) Full Stack Development
13 36 (13.58%) OO
14 34 (12.83%) Continuous Deployment
15 27 (10.19%) Artificial Intelligence
15 27 (10.19%) Mentoring
16 25 (9.43%) Test Automation
17 24 (9.06%) Computer Science
18 22 (8.30%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 64 (24.15%) Python
2 60 (22.64%) Java
3 55 (20.75%) JavaScript
4 47 (17.74%) C#
5 36 (13.58%) SQL
6 31 (11.70%) C++
7 24 (9.06%) Bash
8 21 (7.92%) C
9 15 (5.66%) Perl
9 15 (5.66%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.15%) PHP
11 9 (3.40%) MATLAB
11 9 (3.40%) Scala
12 6 (2.26%) R
13 5 (1.89%) Fortran
13 5 (1.89%) Go
13 5 (1.89%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.51%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.38%) Degree
3 32 (12.08%) DV Cleared
4 19 (7.17%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.26%) CISA
7 6 (2.26%) CISM
7 6 (2.26%) CISSP
7 6 (2.26%) CRISC
7 6 (2.26%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.89%) SANS
9 4 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.51%) ISEB
9 4 (1.51%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.75%) HNC
11 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.55%) QA
2 13 (4.91%) PMO
3 6 (2.26%) ISO 9001
3 6 (2.26%) TickIT
4 5 (1.89%) NIST
5 4 (1.51%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.75%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) AQAP
System Software
1 46 (17.36%) Docker
2 6 (2.26%) Firmware
3 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 41 (15.47%) Terraform
3 39 (14.72%) Ansible
4 5 (1.89%) Argo
4 5 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.17%) Google
3 12 (4.53%) Oracle
4 5 (1.89%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.51%) Databricks
5 4 (1.51%) Rockwell
5 4 (1.51%) Sparx
6 3 (1.13%) Samsung
6 3 (1.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.75%) Citrix
7 2 (0.75%) IBM
7 2 (0.75%) SAP
7 2 (0.75%) Twitter
8 1 (0.38%) BT
8 1 (0.38%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.38%) Sitecore