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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 65 62
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 270 311 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.71% 4.73% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 5.00% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 129 191 212
10th Percentile £35,800 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +10.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% -6.46% +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 8,072 6,218 8,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.00% 94.50% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,777 3,484 5,006
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,507 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,222 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +8.44% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -41 80 £60,000 - 16
Dorset +31 76 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Gloucestershire -27 71 £51,250 -15.71% 15
Devon +1 17 £44,071 -16.69% 4
Somerset 0 16 £45,000 -21.23% 2
Cornwall -11 6 £45,000 +63.64% 2
Wiltshire -36 4 £32,500 -40.91% 3
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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 (1.48%) Confluence
1 4 (1.48%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) CMS
3 1 (0.37%) SAS
3 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.48%) Simulink
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (32.96%) Azure
2 73 (27.04%) AWS
3 21 (7.78%) GCP
4 15 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.59%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.22%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.85%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.48%) OCI
9 3 (1.11%) GitHub
9 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.11%) SaaS
9 3 (1.11%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.74%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.74%) Firebase
10 2 (0.74%) Serverless
11 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.85%) Network Security
1 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.48%) BGP
2 4 (1.48%) DNS
2 4 (1.48%) SSL
3 2 (0.74%) Multicast
3 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.37%) Broadband
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.33%) MySQL
4 7 (2.59%) Power BI
5 6 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.48%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.48%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.48%) Looker
7 4 (1.48%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.48%) Oracle ODI
7 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.37%) Power Query
8 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (21.48%) JIRA
2 21 (7.78%) Visual Studio
3 19 (7.04%) Git
4 15 (5.56%) LabVIEW
5 6 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.22%) NetBeans
5 6 (2.22%) Selenium
6 5 (1.85%) MSTest
6 5 (1.85%) NUnit
6 5 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.48%) Postman
7 4 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.11%) Maven
8 3 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.74%) JMeter
9 2 (0.74%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.74%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.37%) CppUnit
General
1 72 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.26%) Finance
3 43 (15.93%) Aerospace
4 36 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (10.00%) Banking
7 25 (9.26%) Law
8 24 (8.89%) Marketing
9 16 (5.93%) Investment Banking
10 11 (4.07%) Legal
11 8 (2.96%) Retail
12 7 (2.59%) Aviation
13 6 (2.22%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.85%) Automotive
14 5 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.48%) Electronics
16 3 (1.11%) Military
16 3 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.74%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (25.19%) Software Engineer
2 58 (21.48%) Developer
3 45 (16.67%) Senior
4 41 (15.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (7.78%) Lead
5 21 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
6 20 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 19 (7.04%) Project Manager
8 18 (6.67%) .NET Developer
9 16 (5.93%) Architect
10 14 (5.19%) C# Developer
11 13 (4.81%) Presales Manager
12 12 (4.44%) Lead Architect
13 11 (4.07%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Senior Developer
14 10 (3.70%) Analyst
14 10 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
15 9 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
16 8 (2.96%) C# .NET Developer
16 8 (2.96%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.78%) .NET
2 36 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 29 (10.74%) React
4 21 (7.78%) HTML
5 20 (7.41%) .NET Framework
5 20 (7.41%) CSS
6 16 (5.93%) Entity Framework
6 16 (5.93%) Spring
7 14 (5.19%) .NET Core
7 14 (5.19%) RESTful
8 13 (4.81%) ASP.NET
9 12 (4.44%) Vue
10 10 (3.70%) Node.js
11 8 (2.96%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (2.96%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.59%) CSS3
12 7 (2.59%) HTML5
12 7 (2.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 6 (2.22%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.30%) Algorithms
2 16 (5.93%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.44%) GNSS
4 10 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.96%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.59%) Social Network
7 6 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.85%) PMI
8 5 (1.85%) Replication
8 5 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.11%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.74%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.37%) Blog
11 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 65 (24.07%) Linux
2 15 (5.56%) Windows
3 4 (1.48%) Android
3 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 2 (0.74%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.74%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.37%) Debian
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (61.48%) Agile
2 101 (37.41%) Software Engineering
3 88 (32.59%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (30.00%) DevOps
5 61 (22.59%) Collaborative Working
6 59 (21.85%) CI/CD
7 58 (21.48%) Scrum
8 55 (20.37%) Actionable Insight
9 53 (19.63%) Validation
10 48 (17.78%) Project Management
11 47 (17.41%) Continuous Integration
12 46 (17.04%) Kanban
13 39 (14.44%) Full Stack Development
14 38 (14.07%) Continuous Deployment
14 38 (14.07%) OO
15 28 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence
16 26 (9.63%) Mentoring
17 24 (8.89%) Computer Science
18 22 (8.15%) Creative Thinking
18 22 (8.15%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.81%) Python
2 60 (22.22%) Java
3 52 (19.26%) JavaScript
4 46 (17.04%) C#
5 38 (14.07%) SQL
6 36 (13.33%) C++
7 25 (9.26%) Bash
8 24 (8.89%) C
9 18 (6.67%) Perl
10 13 (4.81%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.70%) MATLAB
11 10 (3.70%) PHP
12 9 (3.33%) Scala
13 6 (2.22%) Fortran
13 6 (2.22%) R
14 5 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.48%) Go
15 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (29.26%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.37%) Degree
3 36 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 19 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.59%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.22%) CISA
7 6 (2.22%) CISM
7 6 (2.22%) CISSP
7 6 (2.22%) CRISC
8 5 (1.85%) SANS
9 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.48%) ISEB
9 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.74%) HNC
11 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.30%) QA
2 13 (4.81%) PMO
3 7 (2.59%) ISO 9001
4 6 (2.22%) TickIT
5 5 (1.85%) NIST
6 4 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.11%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.74%) SLA
9 1 (0.37%) AQAP
9 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
System Software
1 48 (17.78%) Docker
2 6 (2.22%) Firmware
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (18.15%) Kubernetes
2 43 (15.93%) Terraform
3 41 (15.19%) Ansible
4 3 (1.11%) Argo
4 3 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.41%) Google
3 11 (4.07%) Oracle
4 6 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.48%) Databricks
5 4 (1.48%) Rockwell
5 4 (1.48%) Sparx
6 3 (1.11%) Samsung
6 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.74%) Citrix
7 2 (0.74%) IBM
7 2 (0.74%) SAP
8 1 (0.37%) BT
8 1 (0.37%) iManage
8 1 (0.37%) Intapp
8 1 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.37%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.37%) Twitter