SDLC Jobs in the UK excluding London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 38 42 64
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 -1
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 3,837 3,917 3,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.41% 6.50% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 6.80% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 1,621 2,092
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,901 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,635 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.05% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,208 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +22 2,230 £65,000 -3.70% 43
North of England -73 418 £57,500 - 106
South East -56 381 £57,500 - 92
South West -18 300 £57,500 +4.55% 61
North West -62 258 £60,000 +14.29% 62
Midlands -105 232 £57,500 +4.55% 79
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% 32
Wales +27 92 £50,000 +11.11% 15
North East +5 46 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Northern Ireland +33 40 £55,000 -4.35% 18
Isle of Man - 3 - -
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 541 (14.10%) Apache Spark
2 117 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (3.02%) Apache
4 98 (2.55%) FileNet
5 54 (1.41%) Camunda
6 41 (1.07%) WebLogic
7 36 (0.94%) nginx
8 27 (0.70%) Confluence
9 26 (0.68%) SharePoint
10 21 (0.55%) GemFire
11 17 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
12 11 (0.29%) CICS
13 8 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
15 6 (0.16%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.13%) OpenEdge
17 4 (0.10%) CMS
18 2 (0.052%) IBM Domino
18 2 (0.052%) IIS
19 1 (0.026%) SAS
Applications
1 58 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.83%) UserZoom
4 25 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.16%) Simulink
8 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.078%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.052%) CA PPM
5 2 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.052%) SAP MII
5 2 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.026%) Maximo
6 1 (0.026%) Postilion
6 1 (0.026%) Primavera
6 1 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.026%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.026%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,414 (36.85%) AWS
2 538 (14.02%) Azure
3 150 (3.91%) GCP
4 134 (3.49%) Amazon S3
5 119 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
6 117 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (2.76%) SaaS
8 96 (2.50%) GitHub
9 92 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
10 91 (2.37%) Datadog
11 78 (2.03%) Serverless
12 77 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
13 71 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
14 70 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
15 64 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
16 55 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
17 53 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 52 (1.36%) Power Platform
19 48 (1.25%) IBM Cloud
20 40 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.14%) Kerberos
2 79 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 69 (1.80%) DNS
4 40 (1.04%) BGP
4 40 (1.04%) SSL
5 38 (0.99%) HTTP
6 29 (0.76%) DHCP
7 19 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.47%) DSL
9 16 (0.42%) Wireless
10 14 (0.36%) Bluetooth
11 13 (0.34%) Firewall
11 13 (0.34%) Network Security
12 10 (0.26%) NGFW
12 10 (0.26%) VPN
13 9 (0.23%) MQTT
14 8 (0.21%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.21%) Profibus
15 7 (0.18%) Broadband
15 7 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 679 (17.70%) NoSQL
2 456 (11.88%) Big Data
3 222 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 194 (5.06%) Hadoop
5 168 (4.38%) SQL Server
6 138 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
7 135 (3.52%) Apache Hive
8 125 (3.26%) MongoDB
9 120 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
10 102 (2.66%) HBase
11 100 (2.61%) MySQL
12 89 (2.32%) RDBMS
13 84 (2.19%) Oracle Database
14 82 (2.14%) Metadata
15 72 (1.88%) Data Lake
16 66 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
17 54 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
18 51 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
19 48 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
20 41 (1.07%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 345 (8.99%) Jenkins
2 331 (8.63%) Git
3 218 (5.68%) JUnit
4 172 (4.48%) JIRA
5 105 (2.74%) Jasmine
6 86 (2.24%) Bitbucket Server
7 82 (2.14%) Selenium
8 81 (2.11%) Maven
9 80 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 78 (2.03%) Bitbucket
11 67 (1.75%) Artifactory
12 60 (1.56%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (1.56%) Protractor
12 60 (1.56%) WebDriver
13 51 (1.33%) Mockito
14 40 (1.04%) Visual Studio
15 38 (0.99%) Postman
16 35 (0.91%) JMeter
17 33 (0.86%) Gradle
18 28 (0.73%) GitLab
General
1 2,374 (61.87%) Finance
2 2,239 (58.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,122 (55.30%) Law
4 1,149 (29.95%) Marketing
5 652 (16.99%) Social Skills
6 643 (16.76%) Legal
7 429 (11.18%) Banking
8 320 (8.34%) Investment Banking
9 252 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
10 246 (6.41%) Financial Institution
11 190 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
12 81 (2.11%) Public Sector
13 76 (1.98%) Aerospace
14 63 (1.64%) Retail
15 61 (1.59%) Electronics
16 58 (1.51%) Private Banking
17 57 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
18 50 (1.30%) Manufacturing
19 34 (0.89%) Games
19 34 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,082 (54.26%) Software Engineer
2 822 (21.42%) Lead
3 718 (18.71%) Java Engineer
4 707 (18.43%) Java Software Engineer
5 627 (16.34%) Lead Software Engineer
6 507 (13.21%) Developer
7 493 (12.85%) Senior
8 362 (9.43%) Full Stack Engineer
9 347 (9.04%) Big Data Engineer
9 347 (9.04%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 337 (8.78%) Python Engineer
11 331 (8.63%) Python Software Engineer
12 312 (8.13%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 302 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
14 299 (7.79%) AWS Software Engineer
15 271 (7.06%) Senior Software Engineer
16 253 (6.59%) Project Manager
17 247 (6.44%) Lead Java Engineer
18 228 (5.94%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (5.94%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 641 (16.71%) Spring
2 628 (16.37%) React
3 513 (13.37%) AngularJS
4 373 (9.72%) .NET
5 362 (9.43%) Spring Boot
6 354 (9.23%) HTML
7 328 (8.55%) Kafka
8 287 (7.48%) JSON
9 285 (7.43%) CSS
10 269 (7.01%) Node.js
11 253 (6.59%) RESTful
12 249 (6.49%) J2EE
13 215 (5.60%) Hibernate
14 199 (5.19%) Web Services
15 197 (5.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 189 (4.93%) REST
17 174 (4.53%) PySpark
18 171 (4.46%) JMS
19 161 (4.20%) jQuery
20 151 (3.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 780 (20.33%) Algorithms
2 746 (19.44%) Cloud Native
3 291 (7.58%) Public Cloud
4 195 (5.08%) Management Information System
5 184 (4.80%) Product Ownership
6 161 (4.20%) Onboarding
7 124 (3.23%) Reference Data
8 102 (2.66%) Data Structures
9 91 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
10 88 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
11 86 (2.24%) Market Risk
12 70 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
13 65 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
14 62 (1.62%) Mobile App
15 49 (1.28%) Blockchain
16 44 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 43 (1.12%) e-Learning
17 43 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (0.96%) Cyberattack
19 36 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 284 (7.40%) Linux
2 141 (3.67%) Unix
3 60 (1.56%) Windows
4 45 (1.17%) Android
5 43 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.13%) ThreadX
10 4 (0.10%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.078%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.052%) Solaris
12 2 (0.052%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.052%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.052%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.026%) Debian
13 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.026%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,104 (80.90%) Agile
2 2,503 (65.23%) Software Engineering
3 2,063 (53.77%) CI/CD
4 1,756 (45.76%) Operational Stability
5 1,331 (34.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,272 (33.15%) Machine Learning
7 1,230 (32.06%) Community of Practice
8 904 (23.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 799 (20.82%) Visualisation
10 678 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
11 672 (17.51%) Risk Management
12 571 (14.88%) Microservices
13 562 (14.65%) Full Stack Development
14 525 (13.68%) Decision-Making
15 479 (12.48%) DevOps
16 478 (12.46%) Continuous Delivery
17 461 (12.01%) Computer Science
18 418 (10.89%) Project Management
19 401 (10.45%) Architectural Design
20 398 (10.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,713 (44.64%) Java
2 1,272 (33.15%) SQL
3 993 (25.88%) Python
4 594 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 392 (10.22%) C#
6 337 (8.78%) Scala
7 262 (6.83%) TypeScript
8 158 (4.12%) PL/SQL
9 124 (3.23%) C
10 104 (2.71%) C++
11 100 (2.61%) Go
12 65 (1.69%) Prolog
12 65 (1.69%) SPARQL
13 57 (1.49%) Kotlin
13 57 (1.49%) PHP
14 47 (1.22%) Bash
15 39 (1.02%) T-SQL
16 37 (0.96%) Groovy
17 34 (0.89%) Lua
18 32 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 362 (9.43%) Degree
2 236 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 153 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 95 (2.48%) SC Cleared
5 83 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 80 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 69 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 56 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 54 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 35 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.52%) PMP
13 18 (0.47%) CISSP
14 17 (0.44%) DBS Check
14 17 (0.44%) ISEB
15 14 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.31%) CISM
16 12 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.21%) HNC
18 7 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.91%) QA
2 73 (1.90%) SLA
3 65 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.17%) PMO
6 32 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 21 (0.55%) NIST
8 17 (0.44%) ISO 13485
9 16 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.26%) ISO 9000
11 8 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (0.21%) IEC 62304
12 7 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.16%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.16%) TickIT
14 5 (0.13%) MISRA
15 4 (0.10%) GDPR
15 4 (0.10%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.10%) SEPA
16 3 (0.078%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 236 (6.15%) Docker
2 104 (2.71%) HDFS
3 78 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 56 (1.46%) Firmware
5 22 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (0.31%) vSphere
7 11 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.052%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 459 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 346 (9.02%) Terraform
3 143 (3.73%) Grafana
4 72 (1.88%) Ansible
5 65 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.76%) Kibana
7 21 (0.55%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.55%) Zipkin
8 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.18%) Graphite
10 5 (0.13%) Argo
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.078%) Functional Safety
13 2 (0.052%) Istio
13 2 (0.052%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 452 (11.78%) Oracle
2 240 (6.25%) Databricks
3 210 (5.47%) Microsoft
4 147 (3.83%) Splunk
5 134 (3.49%) Dynatrace
6 111 (2.89%) Google
7 91 (2.37%) Informatica
8 74 (1.93%) Cloudera
9 69 (1.80%) IBM
10 57 (1.49%) Alteryx
11 44 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 40 (1.04%) Sparx
13 39 (1.02%) SAP
14 32 (0.83%) Qualtrics
15 31 (0.81%) Atlassian
16 26 (0.68%) Salesforce
17 20 (0.52%) Pega
18 18 (0.47%) Cognos
18 18 (0.47%) Sybase
19 13 (0.34%) Citrix