Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 54 57 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 4,480 5,048 8,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.26% 5.33% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.09% 5.58% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,539 2,735 4,282
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £39,124
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,800 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -2.72% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK 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
UK excluding London +13 3,806 £55,000 -4.35% 408
Scotland +28 2,155 £65,000 - 37
England -58 2,122 £60,000 -1.32% 610
Work from Home -2 1,212 £60,000 -4.00% 315
London -71 578 £80,000 +6.67% 243
North of England -52 427 £55,000 -4.35% 98
South East -51 394 £57,500 - 77
Midlands -74 286 £55,000 -0.90% 84
South West -25 271 £57,500 - 63
North West -52 262 £60,000 +9.09% 76
West Midlands -92 156 £57,500 - 52
East of England -47 146 £50,000 -13.04% 24
East Midlands -44 129 £50,000 -9.09% 31
Yorkshire -61 119 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Wales +27 92 £50,000 +11.11% 15
North East -12 46 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Northern Ireland +20 34 £53,750 -6.52% 13
Isle of Man - 3 - -

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 535 (11.94%) Apache Spark
2 134 (2.99%) Apache
3 130 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.19%) FileNet
5 54 (1.21%) Camunda
6 52 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 50 (1.12%) WebLogic
8 46 (1.03%) nginx
9 39 (0.87%) SharePoint
10 31 (0.69%) Confluence
11 22 (0.49%) GemFire
12 17 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 16 (0.36%) SAS
14 11 (0.25%) CICS
15 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 8 (0.18%) CMS
17 7 (0.16%) IIS
17 7 (0.16%) Tomcat
18 6 (0.13%) Apache Pig
19 5 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 70 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.67%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.33%) SPSS
8 6 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.022%) Trello
10 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 42 (0.94%) Endur
3 14 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.089%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.089%) Relativity
7 3 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.045%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.045%) SAP MII
8 2 (0.045%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.045%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.045%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 1 (0.022%) Data Workbench
9 1 (0.022%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.022%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,545 (34.49%) AWS
2 727 (16.23%) Azure
3 206 (4.60%) GCP
4 161 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
5 156 (3.48%) SaaS
6 141 (3.15%) Amazon S3
7 130 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
8 122 (2.72%) GitHub
9 110 (2.46%) Serverless
10 99 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
11 93 (2.08%) Datadog
12 80 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
13 75 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (1.65%) Power Platform
15 67 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
15 67 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
16 62 (1.38%) PaaS
17 53 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 53 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
17 53 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (1.83%) Kerberos
2 59 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 58 (1.29%) DNS
4 48 (1.07%) SSL
5 46 (1.03%) BGP
6 21 (0.47%) Firewall
7 19 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.40%) Internet
9 17 (0.38%) Network Security
10 16 (0.36%) DSL
10 16 (0.36%) Wireless
11 14 (0.31%) Bluetooth
12 13 (0.29%) VPN
13 9 (0.20%) HTTP
13 9 (0.20%) MQTT
14 8 (0.18%) Broadband
14 8 (0.18%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.18%) NGFW
14 8 (0.18%) Profibus
14 8 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 703 (15.69%) NoSQL
2 474 (10.58%) Big Data
3 299 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 255 (5.69%) SQL Server
5 196 (4.38%) Hadoop
6 141 (3.15%) RDBMS
7 140 (3.13%) Apache Hive
8 136 (3.04%) MongoDB
9 135 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
10 125 (2.79%) MySQL
11 120 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
12 98 (2.19%) HBase
13 97 (2.17%) Metadata
14 93 (2.08%) Oracle Database
15 85 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
16 82 (1.83%) Data Lake
17 75 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
18 71 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
19 52 (1.16%) Power BI
20 49 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 385 (8.59%) Git
2 373 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 229 (5.11%) JUnit
4 212 (4.73%) JIRA
5 109 (2.43%) Jasmine
6 86 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 84 (1.88%) Bitbucket Server
7 84 (1.88%) Selenium
8 83 (1.85%) Bitbucket
9 81 (1.81%) Maven
10 67 (1.50%) Artifactory
11 63 (1.41%) WebDriver
12 60 (1.34%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (1.34%) Protractor
13 52 (1.16%) Postman
14 50 (1.12%) Mockito
15 47 (1.05%) Visual Studio
16 44 (0.98%) GitLab
17 40 (0.89%) JMeter
18 35 (0.78%) Cucumber
General
1 2,452 (54.73%) Finance
2 2,175 (48.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,084 (46.52%) Law
4 1,180 (26.34%) Marketing
5 828 (18.48%) Social Skills
6 718 (16.03%) Legal
7 469 (10.47%) Banking
8 339 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
9 327 (7.30%) Investment Banking
10 241 (5.38%) Financial Institution
11 187 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
12 134 (2.99%) Retail
13 103 (2.30%) Public Sector
14 90 (2.01%) Aerospace
15 81 (1.81%) Games
16 73 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
17 66 (1.47%) Electronics
18 61 (1.36%) Manufacturing
19 51 (1.14%) Private Banking
20 40 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,099 (46.85%) Software Engineer
2 937 (20.92%) Lead
3 706 (15.76%) Java Engineer
4 705 (15.74%) Developer
5 689 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
6 653 (14.58%) Senior
7 621 (13.86%) Lead Software Engineer
8 353 (7.88%) Full Stack Engineer
9 336 (7.50%) Python Engineer
10 331 (7.39%) Big Data Engineer
10 331 (7.39%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 323 (7.21%) Python Software Engineer
12 299 (6.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 298 (6.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 292 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
15 287 (6.41%) AWS Software Engineer
16 274 (6.12%) Project Manager
17 240 (5.36%) Lead Java Engineer
18 220 (4.91%) Scala Engineer
18 220 (4.91%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (15.27%) React
2 669 (14.93%) Spring
3 562 (12.54%) AngularJS
4 479 (10.69%) .NET
5 425 (9.49%) Spring Boot
6 382 (8.53%) Kafka
7 343 (7.66%) HTML
8 307 (6.85%) CSS
9 306 (6.83%) Node.js
10 302 (6.74%) JSON
11 273 (6.09%) RESTful
12 258 (5.76%) J2EE
13 234 (5.22%) Web Services
14 229 (5.11%) Hibernate
15 221 (4.93%) REST
16 209 (4.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 179 (4.00%) PySpark
18 174 (3.88%) XML
19 172 (3.84%) JMS
20 165 (3.68%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 783 (17.48%) Algorithms
2 726 (16.21%) Cloud Native
3 282 (6.29%) Public Cloud
4 224 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 214 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 177 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 121 (2.70%) Reference Data
8 110 (2.46%) Data Structures
8 110 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 110 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (1.90%) Market Risk
10 83 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
11 75 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 75 (1.67%) Mobile App
12 67 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
14 57 (1.27%) Blockchain
15 48 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
16 44 (0.98%) e-Learning
17 43 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 325 (7.25%) Linux
2 163 (3.64%) Unix
3 82 (1.83%) Windows
4 64 (1.43%) Android
5 52 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
9 7 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.11%) ThreadX
11 4 (0.089%) VxWorks
12 3 (0.067%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.067%) VMS
12 3 (0.067%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.045%) Solaris
13 2 (0.045%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.045%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.022%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,366 (75.13%) Agile
2 2,617 (58.42%) Software Engineering
3 2,139 (47.75%) CI/CD
4 1,704 (38.04%) Operational Stability
5 1,326 (29.60%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,272 (28.39%) Machine Learning
7 1,200 (26.79%) Community of Practice
8 956 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 832 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
10 791 (17.66%) Visualisation
11 685 (15.29%) Microservices
12 679 (15.16%) Risk Management
13 650 (14.51%) DevOps
14 636 (14.20%) Full Stack Development
15 560 (12.50%) Computer Science
16 526 (11.74%) Decision-Making
17 522 (11.65%) Project Management
18 497 (11.09%) Continuous Delivery
19 469 (10.47%) Test Automation
20 450 (10.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,888 (42.14%) Java
2 1,393 (31.09%) SQL
3 1,092 (24.38%) Python
4 683 (15.25%) JavaScript
5 503 (11.23%) C#
6 342 (7.63%) Scala
7 299 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 156 (3.48%) PL/SQL
9 151 (3.37%) C++
10 147 (3.28%) C
11 135 (3.01%) Go
12 85 (1.90%) Kotlin
13 72 (1.61%) Bash
13 72 (1.61%) PHP
14 65 (1.45%) Prolog
14 65 (1.45%) SPARQL
15 63 (1.41%) VB
16 48 (1.07%) T-SQL
17 46 (1.03%) PowerShell
18 39 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 545 (12.17%) Degree
2 262 (5.85%) Security Cleared
3 204 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 122 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 84 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 72 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 69 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 65 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 49 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 31 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 30 (0.67%) CISSP
13 24 (0.54%) CISM
14 23 (0.51%) DBS Check
14 23 (0.51%) PMP
15 20 (0.45%) ISEB
16 19 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
16 19 (0.42%) PhD
17 12 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (5.94%) QA
2 74 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 67 (1.50%) SLA
4 58 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.03%) PMO
6 34 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.71%) NIST
8 30 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (0.40%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.31%) ISO 9000
11 13 (0.29%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.20%) IEC 62304
13 8 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 8 (0.18%) GDPR
14 7 (0.16%) COBIT
14 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.16%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.13%) TickIT
15 6 (0.13%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 336 (7.50%) Docker
2 113 (2.52%) HDFS
3 85 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 58 (1.29%) Firmware
5 22 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
6 11 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.25%) vSphere
7 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.045%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.022%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 554 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 361 (8.06%) Terraform
3 157 (3.50%) Grafana
4 90 (2.01%) Ansible
5 73 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 34 (0.76%) Kibana
7 21 (0.47%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.47%) Zipkin
8 11 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.16%) Graphite
9 7 (0.16%) Puppet
10 6 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.11%) Control-M
12 4 (0.089%) Argo
12 4 (0.089%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.089%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.089%) Packer
13 3 (0.067%) Salt
13 3 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 517 (11.54%) Oracle
2 300 (6.70%) Microsoft
3 247 (5.51%) Databricks
4 148 (3.30%) Splunk
5 133 (2.97%) Dynatrace
6 132 (2.95%) Google
7 89 (1.99%) Informatica
8 77 (1.72%) Cloudera
9 70 (1.56%) IBM
10 60 (1.34%) Sybase
11 55 (1.23%) Alteryx
12 49 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 48 (1.07%) Sparx
14 45 (1.00%) SAP
15 42 (0.94%) OpenLink
15 42 (0.94%) TIBCO
16 40 (0.89%) Salesforce
17 31 (0.69%) Atlassian
18 30 (0.67%) Qualtrics
19 18 (0.40%) Pega