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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 50 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -2
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 4,462 5,526 8,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.35% 5.68% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 5.94% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 2,770 4,304
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% +11.61%
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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 28 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
UK excluding London +8 3,796 £55,000 -4.35% 434
Scotland +30 2,194 £65,000 - 44
England -69 2,068 £60,000 -1.48% 585
Work from Home -4 1,176 £60,000 -4.00% 320
London -73 570 £80,000 +6.67% 205
North of England -72 416 £55,000 -4.35% 114
South East -47 393 £57,500 - 66
South West -32 267 £56,250 -0.44% 69
Midlands -88 257 £55,000 - 84
North West -58 256 £60,000 +9.09% 81
East of England -49 145 £50,000 -13.04% 30
West Midlands -98 143 £57,500 - 55
Yorkshire -65 114 £50,000 -13.04% 25
East Midlands -52 113 £50,000 -9.09% 29
Wales +24 90 £50,000 +11.11% 14
North East -6 46 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Northern Ireland +20 33 £53,750 -6.52% 18
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
1 547 (12.26%) Apache Spark
2 136 (3.05%) Apache
3 132 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.20%) FileNet
5 55 (1.23%) Camunda
6 53 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 50 (1.12%) WebLogic
8 46 (1.03%) nginx
9 39 (0.87%) SharePoint
10 32 (0.72%) 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 7 (0.16%) CMS
16 7 (0.16%) IIS
16 7 (0.16%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.13%) Apache Pig
18 5 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 70 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.69%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.34%) SPSS
8 6 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (1.08%) 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 (0.090%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.090%) 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%) Maximo
9 1 (0.022%) Primavera
9 1 (0.022%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,565 (35.07%) AWS
2 727 (16.29%) Azure
3 208 (4.66%) GCP
4 160 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
5 150 (3.36%) SaaS
6 141 (3.16%) Amazon S3
7 132 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
8 123 (2.76%) GitHub
9 111 (2.49%) Serverless
10 100 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
11 93 (2.08%) Datadog
12 81 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
13 76 (1.70%) Power Platform
14 70 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
15 68 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
16 62 (1.39%) PaaS
17 54 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
17 54 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
18 53 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 82 (1.84%) Kerberos
2 59 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 58 (1.30%) DNS
4 48 (1.08%) SSL
5 46 (1.03%) BGP
6 21 (0.47%) Firewall
7 19 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (0.38%) DSL
8 17 (0.38%) Internet
8 17 (0.38%) Network Security
9 16 (0.36%) Wireless
10 14 (0.31%) Bluetooth
11 13 (0.29%) VPN
12 9 (0.20%) HTTP
12 9 (0.20%) MQTT
13 8 (0.18%) Broadband
13 8 (0.18%) Ethernet
13 8 (0.18%) NGFW
13 8 (0.18%) Profibus
13 8 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 712 (15.96%) NoSQL
2 487 (10.91%) Big Data
3 302 (6.77%) Relational Database
4 257 (5.76%) SQL Server
5 202 (4.53%) Hadoop
6 145 (3.25%) Apache Hive
7 142 (3.18%) RDBMS
8 140 (3.14%) MongoDB
9 137 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
10 125 (2.80%) MySQL
11 120 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 100 (2.24%) HBase
13 98 (2.20%) Metadata
14 93 (2.08%) Oracle Database
15 87 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
16 83 (1.86%) Data Lake
17 75 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
18 71 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
19 54 (1.21%) Power BI
20 50 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 385 (8.63%) Git
2 377 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 228 (5.11%) JUnit
4 211 (4.73%) JIRA
5 108 (2.42%) Jasmine
6 86 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 85 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
7 85 (1.90%) Selenium
8 83 (1.86%) Bitbucket
9 82 (1.84%) 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 (1.17%) Postman
14 50 (1.12%) Mockito
15 46 (1.03%) Visual Studio
16 44 (0.99%) GitLab
17 40 (0.90%) JMeter
18 35 (0.78%) Cucumber
General
1 2,491 (55.83%) Finance
2 2,216 (49.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,124 (47.60%) Law
4 1,207 (27.05%) Marketing
5 816 (18.29%) Social Skills
6 701 (15.71%) Legal
7 477 (10.69%) Banking
8 337 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
9 331 (7.42%) Investment Banking
10 245 (5.49%) Financial Institution
11 192 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
12 109 (2.44%) Retail
13 103 (2.31%) Public Sector
14 89 (1.99%) Aerospace
15 81 (1.82%) Games
16 73 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
17 65 (1.46%) Electronics
18 60 (1.34%) Manufacturing
19 55 (1.23%) Private Banking
20 40 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,128 (47.69%) Software Engineer
2 934 (20.93%) Lead
3 717 (16.07%) Java Engineer
4 700 (15.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 688 (15.42%) Developer
6 645 (14.46%) Senior
7 632 (14.16%) Lead Software Engineer
8 362 (8.11%) Full Stack Engineer
9 344 (7.71%) Python Engineer
10 340 (7.62%) Big Data Engineer
10 340 (7.62%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 330 (7.40%) Python Software Engineer
12 308 (6.90%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 299 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
14 298 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
15 294 (6.59%) AWS Software Engineer
16 273 (6.12%) Project Manager
17 244 (5.47%) Lead Java Engineer
18 224 (5.02%) Scala Engineer
18 224 (5.02%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 687 (15.40%) React
2 674 (15.11%) Spring
3 566 (12.68%) AngularJS
4 472 (10.58%) .NET
5 427 (9.57%) Spring Boot
6 385 (8.63%) Kafka
7 345 (7.73%) HTML
8 309 (6.93%) CSS
9 305 (6.84%) Node.js
10 302 (6.77%) JSON
11 274 (6.14%) RESTful
12 259 (5.80%) J2EE
13 235 (5.27%) Web Services
14 227 (5.09%) Hibernate
15 223 (5.00%) REST
16 208 (4.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 181 (4.06%) PySpark
18 175 (3.92%) XML
19 173 (3.88%) JMS
20 164 (3.68%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 792 (17.75%) Algorithms
2 739 (16.56%) Cloud Native
3 292 (6.54%) Public Cloud
4 225 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 216 (4.84%) Product Ownership
6 179 (4.01%) Onboarding
7 124 (2.78%) Reference Data
8 111 (2.49%) Data Structures
9 109 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
10 108 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
11 86 (1.93%) Market Risk
12 82 (1.84%) Distributed Applications
13 73 (1.64%) Mobile App
14 72 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
15 65 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
15 65 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
16 57 (1.28%) Blockchain
17 48 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
18 44 (0.99%) e-Learning
19 43 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 325 (7.28%) Linux
2 163 (3.65%) Unix
3 80 (1.79%) Windows
4 62 (1.39%) Android
5 51 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
9 7 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.11%) ThreadX
11 4 (0.090%) 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%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,390 (75.97%) Agile
2 2,642 (59.21%) Software Engineering
3 2,167 (48.57%) CI/CD
4 1,739 (38.97%) Operational Stability
5 1,347 (30.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,292 (28.96%) Machine Learning
7 1,220 (27.34%) Community of Practice
8 965 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 831 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
10 805 (18.04%) Visualisation
11 687 (15.40%) Risk Management
12 684 (15.33%) Microservices
13 648 (14.52%) DevOps
14 636 (14.25%) Full Stack Development
15 558 (12.51%) Computer Science
16 541 (12.12%) Decision-Making
17 521 (11.68%) Project Management
18 502 (11.25%) Continuous Delivery
19 472 (10.58%) Test Automation
20 447 (10.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,907 (42.74%) Java
2 1,407 (31.53%) SQL
3 1,109 (24.85%) Python
4 681 (15.26%) JavaScript
5 496 (11.12%) C#
6 350 (7.84%) Scala
7 300 (6.72%) TypeScript
8 158 (3.54%) PL/SQL
9 143 (3.20%) C
10 142 (3.18%) C++
11 134 (3.00%) Go
12 86 (1.93%) Kotlin
13 71 (1.59%) PHP
14 69 (1.55%) Bash
15 65 (1.46%) Prolog
15 65 (1.46%) SPARQL
16 63 (1.41%) VB
17 50 (1.12%) T-SQL
18 45 (1.01%) PowerShell
19 39 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 520 (11.65%) Degree
2 256 (5.74%) Security Cleared
3 202 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 118 (2.64%) SC Cleared
5 83 (1.86%) Master's Degree
6 71 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 69 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 65 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 49 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (1.01%) PMI Certification
11 31 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 30 (0.67%) CISSP
13 24 (0.54%) CISM
14 23 (0.52%) PMP
15 22 (0.49%) DBS Check
16 20 (0.45%) ISEB
17 19 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.40%) PhD
19 12 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
20 11 (0.25%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (5.42%) QA
2 77 (1.73%) Data Quality
3 71 (1.59%) SLA
4 60 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.05%) PMO
6 34 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (0.72%) NIST
8 31 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.38%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.31%) ISO 9000
11 12 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 8 (0.18%) IEC 62304
13 7 (0.16%) COBIT
13 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 7 (0.16%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.13%) GDPR
14 6 (0.13%) TickIT
14 6 (0.13%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 332 (7.44%) Docker
2 115 (2.58%) HDFS
3 86 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 57 (1.28%) 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
9 4 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.045%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.022%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 554 (12.42%) Kubernetes
2 364 (8.16%) Terraform
3 158 (3.54%) Grafana
4 90 (2.02%) Ansible
5 73 (1.64%) 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 (0.090%) Argo
12 4 (0.090%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.090%) Packer
13 3 (0.067%) Salt
13 3 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 524 (11.74%) Oracle
2 299 (6.70%) Microsoft
3 254 (5.69%) Databricks
4 149 (3.34%) Splunk
5 134 (3.00%) Dynatrace
6 132 (2.96%) Google
7 90 (2.02%) Informatica
8 79 (1.77%) Cloudera
9 70 (1.57%) IBM
10 60 (1.34%) Sybase
11 56 (1.26%) Alteryx
12 49 (1.10%) Red Hat
13 48 (1.08%) Sparx
14 45 (1.01%) SAP
15 42 (0.94%) OpenLink
15 42 (0.94%) TIBCO
16 40 (0.90%) Salesforce
17 31 (0.69%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.69%) Qualtrics
18 19 (0.43%) Pega