SDLC Jobs in Scotland

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

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 35 52
Rank change year-on-year +28 +17 -17
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,155 307 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 31.48% 7.06% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 34.71% 7.48% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 92 185 233
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £40,100
25th Percentile £49,688 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £84,000 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £129,250 £93,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -2.72% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,209 4,103 5,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.71% 94.39% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,060 2,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Glasgow +39 2,058 £65,000 +13.04% 16
Edinburgh -16 70 £82,788 +19.21% 15
Aberdeen -10 9 £47,500 -21.88% 3
Dundee -9 7 £50,000 -31.03%
Aberdeenshire +6 3 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Stirling - 3 £50,000 - 1
Falkirk - 3 £50,000 - 1
West Lothian -4 2 £52,500 -12.50%
Fife -9 2 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Lanarkshire -10 1 - - 4
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 511 (23.71%) Apache Spark
2 114 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (4.73%) Apache
4 98 (4.55%) FileNet
5 21 (0.97%) GemFire
6 18 (0.84%) Camunda
7 17 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
8 11 (0.51%) CICS
9 10 (0.46%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.23%) Confluence
11 5 (0.23%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.14%) IIS
13 2 (0.093%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.046%) Tuxedo
14 1 (0.046%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (1.39%) UserZoom
2 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.046%) Maximo
2 1 (0.046%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (49.28%) AWS
2 138 (6.40%) Azure
3 98 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 98 (4.55%) GCP
4 91 (4.22%) Datadog
5 74 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
6 57 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
7 53 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
8 52 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 52 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
9 49 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
9 49 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
9 49 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (2.27%) GitHub
9 49 (2.27%) Serverless
10 33 (1.53%) Figma
11 31 (1.44%) BlazeMeter
12 30 (1.39%) SurveyMonkey
13 25 (1.16%) Google Play
14 13 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.81%) Kerberos
2 16 (0.74%) DSL
3 8 (0.37%) BGP
3 8 (0.37%) DNS
3 8 (0.37%) SSL
3 8 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.32%) HTTP
4 7 (0.32%) MQTT
5 5 (0.23%) Firewall
6 4 (0.19%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.093%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 634 (29.42%) NoSQL
2 420 (19.49%) Big Data
3 179 (8.31%) Hadoop
4 128 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
5 123 (5.71%) Apache Hive
6 120 (5.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 112 (5.20%) Relational Database
8 98 (4.55%) HBase
9 72 (3.34%) MongoDB
10 65 (3.02%) Metadata
11 60 (2.78%) Data Lake
12 49 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (1.81%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.76%) CockroachDB
15 29 (1.35%) MySQL
16 27 (1.25%) DB2
17 22 (1.02%) RDBMS
18 21 (0.97%) Hazelcast
19 19 (0.88%) Looker
20 18 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 278 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 198 (9.19%) JUnit
3 189 (8.77%) Git
4 105 (4.87%) Jasmine
5 84 (3.90%) Bitbucket Server
6 71 (3.29%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.02%) Artifactory
7 65 (3.02%) Bitbucket
8 64 (2.97%) Maven
8 64 (2.97%) Selenium
9 60 (2.78%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (2.78%) Protractor
9 60 (2.78%) WebDriver
10 48 (2.23%) Mockito
11 29 (1.35%) JMeter
12 28 (1.30%) Gradle
13 25 (1.16%) Android Studio
14 21 (0.97%) Jaeger
15 20 (0.93%) JIRA
16 18 (0.84%) Travis CI
General
1 2,049 (95.08%) Finance
2 2,019 (93.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,006 (93.09%) Law
4 1,054 (48.91%) Marketing
5 598 (27.75%) Legal
6 356 (16.52%) Banking
7 295 (13.69%) Investment Banking
8 234 (10.86%) Financial Institution
9 201 (9.33%) Social Skills
10 172 (7.98%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (2.37%) Private Banking
12 36 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
13 35 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.21%) Games
15 22 (1.02%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (0.93%) Front Office
17 15 (0.70%) Publishing
18 11 (0.51%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.46%) Public Sector
20 9 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,805 (83.76%) Software Engineer
2 682 (31.65%) Java Engineer
2 682 (31.65%) Java Software Engineer
3 638 (29.61%) Lead
4 603 (27.98%) Lead Software Engineer
5 331 (15.36%) Big Data Engineer
5 331 (15.36%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 320 (14.85%) Python Engineer
6 320 (14.85%) Python Software Engineer
7 294 (13.64%) Full Stack Engineer
7 294 (13.64%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 285 (13.23%) AWS Engineer
8 285 (13.23%) AWS Software Engineer
9 237 (11.00%) Lead Java Engineer
10 225 (10.44%) Senior
11 220 (10.21%) Scala Engineer
11 220 (10.21%) Scala Software Engineer
12 196 (9.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 189 (8.77%) Data Engineer
14 162 (7.52%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (24.92%) Spring
2 460 (21.35%) React
3 367 (17.03%) AngularJS
4 294 (13.64%) Kafka
5 261 (12.11%) Spring Boot
6 243 (11.28%) J2EE
7 230 (10.67%) HTML
8 205 (9.51%) JSON
9 199 (9.23%) CSS
10 193 (8.96%) Hibernate
11 188 (8.72%) Node.js
12 177 (8.21%) RESTful
13 171 (7.94%) PySpark
14 170 (7.89%) JMS
15 163 (7.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 139 (6.45%) Web Services
17 138 (6.40%) jQuery
18 123 (5.71%) GraphQL
19 109 (5.06%) XML
20 102 (4.73%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 714 (33.13%) Algorithms
2 658 (30.53%) Cloud Native
3 213 (9.88%) Public Cloud
4 152 (7.05%) Onboarding
5 123 (5.71%) Management Information System
6 120 (5.57%) Reference Data
7 90 (4.18%) Data Structures
8 84 (3.90%) Market Risk
9 65 (3.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 64 (2.97%) Distributed Applications
11 46 (2.13%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.07%) Credit Risk
13 21 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (0.97%) Replication
14 20 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (0.60%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.51%) Mainframe
16 11 (0.51%) VSAM
17 9 (0.42%) IoT
17 9 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 127 (5.89%) Unix
2 109 (5.06%) Linux
3 25 (1.16%) Android
4 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.19%) Windows
6 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,050 (95.13%) Agile
2 2,017 (93.60%) Software Engineering
3 1,770 (82.13%) CI/CD
4 1,678 (77.87%) Operational Stability
5 1,209 (56.10%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,192 (55.31%) Machine Learning
7 1,184 (54.94%) Community of Practice
8 751 (34.85%) Visualisation
9 717 (33.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 626 (29.05%) Risk Management
11 447 (20.74%) Microservices
12 438 (20.32%) Decision-Making
13 436 (20.23%) Continuous Delivery
14 364 (16.89%) Architectural Design
14 364 (16.89%) Information Architecture
15 338 (15.68%) Full Stack Development
16 307 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
17 275 (12.76%) Computer Science
18 232 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
19 231 (10.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,393 (64.64%) Java
2 963 (44.69%) SQL
3 798 (37.03%) Python
4 302 (14.01%) Scala
5 291 (13.50%) JavaScript
6 208 (9.65%) TypeScript
7 144 (6.68%) PL/SQL
8 79 (3.67%) Go
9 65 (3.02%) Prolog
9 65 (3.02%) SPARQL
10 52 (2.41%) C#
11 37 (1.72%) Groovy
12 27 (1.25%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.84%) Ruby
15 11 (0.51%) COBOL
15 11 (0.51%) JCL
16 6 (0.28%) C
16 6 (0.28%) Embedded C
16 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (4.22%) Degree
2 46 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (1.58%) Master's Degree
4 12 (0.56%) Azure Certification
5 10 (0.46%) SC Cleared
5 10 (0.46%) Security Cleared
6 8 (0.37%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (0.37%) CISSP
7 6 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (0.28%) CISM
8 5 (0.23%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.23%) PMP
9 4 (0.19%) CCNA
9 4 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.19%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.046%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.046%) CBAP
10 1 (0.046%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (2.55%) SLA
2 47 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 18 (0.84%) PMO
6 16 (0.74%) QA
7 6 (0.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.093%) SEPA
System Software
1 98 (4.55%) HDFS
2 65 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.62%) Docker
4 11 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
5 9 (0.42%) Firmware
6 2 (0.093%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 321 (14.90%) Kubernetes
2 205 (9.51%) Terraform
3 134 (6.22%) Grafana
4 62 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.97%) HAProxy
5 21 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (0.97%) Kibana
5 21 (0.97%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.32%) Graphite
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.093%) Ansible
9 2 (0.093%) Istio
Vendors
1 347 (16.10%) Oracle
2 220 (10.21%) Databricks
3 138 (6.40%) Splunk
4 130 (6.03%) Dynatrace
5 85 (3.94%) Informatica
6 68 (3.16%) Cloudera
7 57 (2.65%) Google
8 55 (2.55%) Alteryx
9 30 (1.39%) Qualtrics
10 21 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 21 (0.97%) Microsoft
11 18 (0.84%) Pega
12 17 (0.79%) Sybase
13 16 (0.74%) Cognos
14 9 (0.42%) TOWER Software
15 8 (0.37%) Sparx
16 7 (0.32%) NVIDIA
16 7 (0.32%) SAP
17 4 (0.19%) Cisco
17 4 (0.19%) IBM