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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 294 332 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.17% 4.87% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 5.16% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 132 188 196
10th Percentile £35,100 £35,483 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +6.80% +8.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,500 £60,899 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.66% -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 7,748 6,435 7,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.55% 94.47% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 3,571 4,992
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,225 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 9 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 9 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
Gloucestershire -12 95 £52,500 -8.70% 9
Bristol -39 84 £62,500 +25.00% 18
Dorset +32 75 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Somerset +6 16 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Devon -4 14 £44,071 -2.07% 6
Cornwall -18 6 £45,000 +63.64% 3
Wiltshire -28 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 (1.36%) Confluence
1 4 (1.36%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.36%) Simulink
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (33.67%) AWS
2 88 (29.93%) Azure
3 29 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (7.48%) GCP
5 14 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.70%) GitHub
7 5 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.70%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.36%) OCI
8 4 (1.36%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.02%) SaaS
10 2 (0.68%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (0.68%) Firebase
10 2 (0.68%) Serverless
10 2 (0.68%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.56%) TCP/IP
2 33 (11.22%) DNS
3 29 (9.86%) DHCP
3 29 (9.86%) HTTP
4 5 (1.70%) Network Security
5 4 (1.36%) BGP
5 4 (1.36%) SSL
6 2 (0.68%) Multicast
6 2 (0.68%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.34%) Broadband
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.40%) MySQL
4 7 (2.38%) Power BI
5 6 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.04%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.70%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.70%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.36%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.36%) Looker
7 4 (1.36%) Oracle ODI
7 4 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (17.35%) JIRA
2 19 (6.46%) Git
3 18 (6.12%) Visual Studio
4 14 (4.76%) LabVIEW
5 11 (3.74%) Selenium
6 8 (2.72%) Jenkins
7 6 (2.04%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.70%) Maven
8 5 (1.70%) NetBeans
8 5 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.02%) MSTest
10 3 (1.02%) NUnit
10 3 (1.02%) Postman
11 2 (0.68%) JMeter
11 2 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.68%) TestComplete
12 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
General
1 100 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 85 (28.91%) Finance
3 65 (22.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (12.24%) Aerospace
5 31 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (9.86%) Banking
7 25 (8.50%) Law
8 23 (7.82%) Marketing
9 16 (5.44%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.06%) Legal
11 8 (2.72%) Retail
12 6 (2.04%) Aviation
13 5 (1.70%) Automotive
14 4 (1.36%) Electronics
14 4 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.68%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (20.75%) Developer
1 61 (20.75%) Senior
2 59 (20.07%) Software Engineer
3 39 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (11.56%) Architect
5 25 (8.50%) Lead
6 22 (7.48%) .NET Developer
7 21 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 20 (6.80%) Project Manager
9 19 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (5.44%) C# Developer
10 16 (5.44%) Senior Architect
11 15 (5.10%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.76%) Lead Architect
12 14 (4.76%) Presales Manager
12 14 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.74%) Analyst
13 11 (3.74%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (3.40%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.35%) HTML
2 49 (16.67%) .NET
3 39 (13.27%) AngularJS
4 30 (10.20%) OpenID
4 30 (10.20%) React
4 30 (10.20%) SAML
5 22 (7.48%) CSS
6 20 (6.80%) .NET Framework
7 17 (5.78%) Spring
8 15 (5.10%) ASP.NET
9 14 (4.76%) Entity Framework
9 14 (4.76%) RESTful
10 12 (4.08%) .NET Core
10 12 (4.08%) Vue
11 10 (3.40%) Node.js
12 9 (3.06%) CSS3
12 9 (3.06%) HTML5
13 8 (2.72%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (2.72%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (2.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.20%) Cyberattack
3 18 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 17 (5.78%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.40%) GNSS
5 10 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.38%) Social Network
6 7 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.70%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.70%) Replication
8 4 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.36%) PMI
9 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.34%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.39%) Linux
2 12 (4.08%) Windows
3 4 (1.36%) Android
3 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.68%) Windows 7
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Embedded Compact
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.68%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.34%) Debian
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (67.35%) Agile
2 94 (31.97%) Software Engineering
3 91 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (27.55%) DevOps
5 58 (19.73%) Actionable Insight
6 57 (19.39%) Collaborative Working
7 55 (18.71%) CI/CD
8 54 (18.37%) Scrum
9 48 (16.33%) Project Management
10 46 (15.65%) Validation
11 45 (15.31%) Continuous Integration
12 41 (13.95%) Cloud Security
12 41 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
12 41 (13.95%) Kanban
13 35 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (11.90%) Line Management
14 34 (11.56%) OO
14 34 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (11.22%) Continuous Deployment
16 30 (10.20%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 63 (21.43%) Python
2 62 (21.09%) Java
3 56 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 48 (16.33%) C#
5 36 (12.24%) SQL
6 27 (9.18%) C++
7 21 (7.14%) Bash
8 19 (6.46%) C
9 15 (5.10%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.08%) Perl
11 11 (3.74%) PHP
12 10 (3.40%) Scala
13 9 (3.06%) MATLAB
14 7 (2.38%) R
15 5 (1.70%) Fortran
15 5 (1.70%) Go
15 5 (1.70%) T-SQL
16 4 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (1.36%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 105 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.41%) DV Cleared
3 52 (17.69%) Degree
4 36 (12.24%) AWS Certification
5 33 (11.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (6.46%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.04%) CISA
8 6 (2.04%) CISM
8 6 (2.04%) CISSP
8 6 (2.04%) CRISC
8 6 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.70%) SANS
10 4 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.02%) ISEB
11 3 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.68%) HNC
12 2 (0.68%) PMP
13 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.14%) QA
2 11 (3.74%) PMO
3 6 (2.04%) ISO 9001
3 6 (2.04%) TickIT
4 5 (1.70%) NIST
5 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.68%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.68%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) AQAP
System Software
1 45 (15.31%) Docker
2 5 (1.70%) Firmware
3 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (23.47%) Terraform
2 46 (15.65%) Kubernetes
3 38 (12.93%) Ansible
4 5 (1.70%) Argo
4 5 (1.70%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.46%) Google
3 13 (4.42%) Oracle
4 5 (1.70%) Atlassian
4 5 (1.70%) Databricks
5 4 (1.36%) Rockwell
5 4 (1.36%) Sparx
6 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.68%) Citrix
7 2 (0.68%) IBM
7 2 (0.68%) Samsung
7 2 (0.68%) SAP
7 2 (0.68%) Twitter
8 1 (0.34%) BT
8 1 (0.34%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.34%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.34%) Splunk