SDLC Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -70 +17 +7
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,078 5,445 7,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.42% 6.02% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 6.29% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,345 2,486 3,722
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,664 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,899 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -6.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £98,355
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.48% -2.56% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,372 86,501 127,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.52% 95.63% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,935 51,101 73,310
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in England

SDLC
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London -68 585 £80,000 +3.23% 233
North of England -73 418 £57,500 - 106
South East -56 381 £57,500 - 94
South West -18 300 £57,500 +4.55% 62
North West -62 258 £60,000 +14.29% 62
Midlands -105 232 £57,500 +4.55% 78
East of England -46 144 £50,000 -13.04% 34
West Midlands -101 139 £57,500 - 47
Yorkshire -70 114 £50,000 -13.04% 35
East Midlands -69 93 £50,000 -9.09% 31
North East +5 46 £61,250 +6.52% 9
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 46 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (2.17%) nginx
3 38 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 36 (1.73%) Camunda
5 35 (1.68%) Apache
6 30 (1.44%) WebLogic
7 29 (1.40%) Confluence
8 26 (1.25%) Apache Spark
9 18 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
10 16 (0.77%) SAS
11 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.38%) Apache Pig
13 6 (0.29%) CMS
14 5 (0.24%) IIS
14 5 (0.24%) OpenEdge
15 4 (0.19%) Drupal
16 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
16 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 2 (0.096%) JCAPS
17 2 (0.096%) WinCC
Applications
1 59 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.72%) SPSS
7 6 (0.29%) Simulink
8 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 42 (2.02%) Endur
2 30 (1.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.38%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.19%) Relativity
8 3 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.096%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.096%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.096%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.096%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.096%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.096%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 1 (0.048%) Data Workbench
10 1 (0.048%) Postilion
10 1 (0.048%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 546 (26.28%) Azure
2 476 (22.91%) AWS
3 145 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
4 123 (5.92%) SaaS
5 101 (4.86%) GCP
6 75 (3.61%) GitHub
7 68 (3.27%) Serverless
8 67 (3.22%) Power Platform
9 48 (2.31%) IBM Cloud
9 48 (2.31%) PaaS
10 46 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
11 45 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 41 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (1.88%) PowerApps
14 38 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 38 (1.83%) OpenShift
15 35 (1.68%) IaaS
16 32 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.32%) DNS
2 68 (3.27%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.49%) HTTP
4 30 (1.44%) SSL
5 29 (1.40%) DHCP
6 28 (1.35%) BGP
7 19 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.87%) Network Security
9 17 (0.82%) VPN
10 16 (0.77%) Firewall
10 16 (0.77%) Internet
10 16 (0.77%) Wireless
11 14 (0.67%) Bluetooth
12 12 (0.58%) NGFW
13 10 (0.48%) VoIP
14 8 (0.38%) Broadband
15 7 (0.34%) RS-485
16 6 (0.29%) AMQP
16 6 (0.29%) ZigBee
17 5 (0.24%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (10.97%) SQL Server
2 172 (8.28%) Relational Database
3 108 (5.20%) RDBMS
4 98 (4.72%) MySQL
5 77 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
6 70 (3.37%) Oracle Database
7 69 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
8 65 (3.13%) NoSQL
9 63 (3.03%) MongoDB
10 56 (2.69%) Big Data
11 55 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
12 48 (2.31%) Power BI
13 38 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 31 (1.49%) Metadata
15 27 (1.30%) Redis
16 23 (1.11%) Hadoop
17 22 (1.06%) Apache Hive
17 22 (1.06%) Data Lake
18 18 (0.87%) BigQuery
19 15 (0.72%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 185 (8.90%) JIRA
2 179 (8.61%) Git
3 93 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.92%) Postman
5 38 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 37 (1.78%) GitLab
7 30 (1.44%) JUnit
8 25 (1.20%) Selenium
9 24 (1.15%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (0.91%) Maven
12 17 (0.82%) Cucumber
13 16 (0.77%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.72%) NUnit
15 14 (0.67%) LabVIEW
16 13 (0.63%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.63%) TeamCity
17 12 (0.58%) Eclipse
17 12 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
18 10 (0.48%) Appium
General
1 586 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 415 (19.97%) Finance
3 255 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (5.34%) Marketing
6 108 (5.20%) Banking
7 85 (4.09%) Public Sector
8 78 (3.75%) Aerospace
9 73 (3.51%) Law
10 70 (3.37%) Retail
11 62 (2.98%) Legal
12 58 (2.79%) Games
13 43 (2.07%) Electronics
14 38 (1.83%) Manufacturing
15 36 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
16 33 (1.59%) Investment Banking
17 30 (1.44%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
19 23 (1.11%) Retail Banking
20 20 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 549 (26.42%) Developer
2 370 (17.81%) Senior
3 253 (12.18%) Lead
4 243 (11.69%) Software Engineer
5 213 (10.25%) Project Manager
6 168 (8.08%) Architect
7 157 (7.56%) Analyst
8 122 (5.87%) Senior Developer
9 116 (5.58%) .NET Developer
10 110 (5.29%) Software Developer
11 105 (5.05%) Presales Manager
12 94 (4.52%) Business Analyst
12 94 (4.52%) Java Developer
13 85 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 83 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
15 73 (3.51%) Technical Leader
16 68 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
16 68 (3.27%) Software Manager
17 62 (2.98%) C# Developer
18 59 (2.84%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (19.78%) .NET
2 208 (10.01%) React
3 173 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 148 (7.12%) Spring Boot
5 141 (6.79%) HTML
6 138 (6.64%) .NET Framework
7 130 (6.26%) Spring
8 124 (5.97%) ASP.NET
9 119 (5.73%) .NET Core
10 114 (5.49%) REST
11 106 (5.10%) Node.js
12 103 (4.96%) JSON
13 100 (4.81%) CSS
14 87 (4.19%) Kafka
15 84 (4.04%) RESTful
16 80 (3.85%) Web Services
17 68 (3.27%) Entity Framework
18 66 (3.18%) Vue
19 64 (3.08%) ASP.NET Web API
20 61 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 104 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 100 (4.81%) Cloud Native
3 100 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 82 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 73 (3.51%) Mobile App
6 65 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 57 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
8 55 (2.65%) Blockchain
9 54 (2.60%) Algorithms
10 52 (2.50%) Virtual Team
11 48 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 47 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
13 45 (2.17%) e-Learning
14 42 (2.02%) Swaptions
15 38 (1.83%) Cyberattack
16 31 (1.49%) Social Network
17 29 (1.40%) Client/Server
18 25 (1.20%) IoT
19 22 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.90%) Linux
2 71 (3.42%) Windows
3 32 (1.54%) Android
3 32 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.87%) Unix
6 17 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.24%) ThreadX
9 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.096%) VMS
10 2 (0.096%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.096%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.096%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.048%) Debian
11 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.048%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,219 (58.66%) Agile
2 540 (25.99%) DevOps
3 524 (25.22%) Software Engineering
4 469 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
5 428 (20.60%) Project Management
6 340 (16.36%) CI/CD
7 291 (14.00%) Scrum
8 276 (13.28%) Full Stack Development
9 268 (12.90%) Roadmaps
10 255 (12.27%) Mentoring
11 254 (12.22%) Computer Science
12 221 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 212 (10.20%) Microservices
14 211 (10.15%) Project Delivery
15 193 (9.29%) Actionable Insight
15 193 (9.29%) Test Automation
16 168 (8.08%) Kanban
17 156 (7.51%) Agile Project Management
18 154 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
19 153 (7.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 463 (22.28%) Java
2 387 (18.62%) C#
3 374 (18.00%) SQL
4 361 (17.37%) JavaScript
5 263 (12.66%) Python
6 107 (5.15%) C++
7 89 (4.28%) TypeScript
8 88 (4.23%) C
9 74 (3.56%) PHP
10 64 (3.08%) VB
11 58 (2.79%) Kotlin
12 53 (2.55%) Bash
13 51 (2.45%) PowerShell
14 48 (2.31%) Go
15 40 (1.92%) Scala
16 36 (1.73%) Lua
17 22 (1.06%) RPG
18 21 (1.01%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.77%) Perl
20 15 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 371 (17.85%) Degree
2 249 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 148 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 91 (4.38%) DV Cleared
6 76 (3.66%) AWS Certification
7 60 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 49 (2.36%) Azure Certification
9 36 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.73%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.06%) ISTQB
11 21 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.87%) ISEB
12 18 (0.87%) PMP
13 17 (0.82%) CISSP
14 13 (0.63%) CISM
15 12 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.48%) HNC
18 9 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (8.90%) QA
2 44 (2.12%) Data Quality
3 34 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.25%) PMO
5 22 (1.06%) NIST
6 12 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 12 (0.58%) SLA
7 10 (0.48%) ISO 9000
8 9 (0.43%) ISO 13485
9 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.38%) IEC 62304
10 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (0.29%) TickIT
12 5 (0.24%) GDPR
12 5 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.19%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.14%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.096%) IEC 61508
15 2 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 2 (0.096%) SOC 2
System Software
1 271 (13.04%) Docker
2 39 (1.88%) Firmware
3 22 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
4 18 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.87%) HDFS
5 17 (0.82%) vSphere
6 15 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.048%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 217 (10.44%) Kubernetes
2 183 (8.81%) Terraform
3 88 (4.23%) Ansible
4 16 (0.77%) Grafana
5 13 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 12 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.48%) Puppet
8 7 (0.34%) Kibana
9 6 (0.29%) Argo
9 6 (0.29%) Control-M
10 5 (0.24%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.19%) Packer
12 3 (0.14%) Salt
12 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.096%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 246 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.27%) Oracle
3 77 (3.71%) Google
4 67 (3.22%) IBM
5 49 (2.36%) Red Hat
6 43 (2.07%) Sybase
7 42 (2.02%) OpenLink
7 42 (2.02%) TIBCO
8 41 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 37 (1.78%) SAP
10 30 (1.44%) Sparx
11 29 (1.40%) Databricks
12 19 (0.91%) VMware
13 16 (0.77%) Citrix
14 11 (0.53%) Nintex
15 10 (0.48%) Apple
15 10 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.48%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.48%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.43%) WSO2