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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 49 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +8
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 4,522 6,225 8,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.61% 5.95% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 6.22% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 2,937 4,207
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,124
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,958 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +7 3,832 £55,000 -4.35% 403
Scotland +22 2,223 £67,500 -0.20% 54
England -67 2,080 £62,500 - 561
Work from Home -7 1,205 £61,750 -1.20% 314
London -72 587 £80,000 +3.23% 228
North of England -69 425 £57,500 - 105
South East -52 379 £57,500 - 85
South West -15 293 £57,500 +4.55% 49
North West -56 261 £60,000 +15.38% 65
Midlands -102 235 £57,500 +4.55% 61
East of England -49 146 £50,000 -13.04% 30
West Midlands -95 143 £57,500 - 34
Yorkshire -65 119 £50,000 -13.04% 29
East Midlands -66 94 £50,000 -9.09% 27
Wales +32 93 £50,000 +11.11% 17
North East +8 45 £60,000 +4.35% 12
Northern Ireland +37 40 £55,000 -4.35% 10
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
1 562 (12.43%) Apache Spark
2 143 (3.16%) Apache
3 135 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 96 (2.12%) FileNet
5 59 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 56 (1.24%) Camunda
7 49 (1.08%) WebLogic
8 45 (1.00%) nginx
9 39 (0.86%) Confluence
9 39 (0.86%) SharePoint
10 22 (0.49%) GemFire
11 17 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
12 16 (0.35%) SAS
13 11 (0.24%) CICS
14 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 8 (0.18%) Apache Pig
15 8 (0.18%) Tomcat
16 7 (0.15%) IIS
17 5 (0.11%) OpenEdge
18 4 (0.088%) CMS
Applications
1 68 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.71%) UserZoom
4 29 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.51%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.33%) SPSS
8 6 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (1.06%) Endur
1 48 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.20%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.088%) Relativity
7 3 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.066%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.044%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.044%) CA PPM
8 2 (0.044%) SAP MII
8 2 (0.044%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.044%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.044%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 1 (0.022%) Data Workbench
9 1 (0.022%) Ringtail
9 1 (0.022%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.022%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 1,596 (35.29%) AWS
2 735 (16.25%) Azure
3 207 (4.58%) GCP
4 166 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
5 159 (3.52%) SaaS
6 143 (3.16%) Amazon S3
7 135 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
8 129 (2.85%) GitHub
9 119 (2.63%) Serverless
10 99 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
11 93 (2.06%) Datadog
12 83 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (1.79%) Power Platform
14 77 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
15 71 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
16 67 (1.48%) PaaS
17 60 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
18 57 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
19 55 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 87 (1.92%) TCP/IP
2 85 (1.88%) DNS
3 82 (1.81%) Kerberos
4 48 (1.06%) SSL
5 46 (1.02%) BGP
6 39 (0.86%) HTTP
7 29 (0.64%) DHCP
8 23 (0.51%) Network Security
9 20 (0.44%) Firewall
10 19 (0.42%) Internet
10 19 (0.42%) VPN
10 19 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.40%) DSL
12 16 (0.35%) Wireless
13 14 (0.31%) Bluetooth
13 14 (0.31%) NGFW
14 10 (0.22%) MQTT
14 10 (0.22%) VoIP
15 8 (0.18%) Broadband
15 8 (0.18%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 721 (15.94%) NoSQL
2 510 (11.28%) Big Data
3 311 (6.88%) Relational Database
4 258 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 212 (4.69%) Hadoop
6 153 (3.38%) Apache Hive
7 149 (3.30%) RDBMS
8 146 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 139 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
10 129 (2.85%) MySQL
11 119 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
12 102 (2.26%) HBase
13 93 (2.06%) Oracle Database
14 92 (2.03%) Metadata
15 82 (1.81%) Data Lake
15 82 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
16 77 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
17 73 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
18 58 (1.28%) Power BI
19 51 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 389 (8.60%) Jenkins
2 387 (8.56%) Git
3 229 (5.06%) JUnit
4 216 (4.78%) JIRA
5 104 (2.30%) Jasmine
6 90 (1.99%) Selenium
7 88 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 86 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
9 85 (1.88%) Maven
10 81 (1.79%) Bitbucket
11 67 (1.48%) Artifactory
12 66 (1.46%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.33%) Karma Test Runner
13 60 (1.33%) Protractor
14 52 (1.15%) Postman
15 50 (1.11%) Mockito
16 45 (1.00%) Visual Studio
17 43 (0.95%) GitLab
18 39 (0.86%) JMeter
19 34 (0.75%) Gradle
General
1 2,570 (56.83%) Finance
2 2,256 (49.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,138 (47.28%) Law
4 1,212 (26.80%) Marketing
5 855 (18.91%) Social Skills
6 685 (15.15%) Legal
7 513 (11.34%) Banking
8 345 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
9 336 (7.43%) Investment Banking
10 248 (5.48%) Financial Institution
11 195 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
12 103 (2.28%) Public Sector
13 88 (1.95%) Games
14 86 (1.90%) Retail
15 83 (1.84%) Aerospace
16 73 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
17 63 (1.39%) Electronics
18 57 (1.26%) Private Banking
19 55 (1.22%) Manufacturing
20 37 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,121 (46.90%) Software Engineer
2 925 (20.46%) Lead
3 719 (15.90%) Java Engineer
4 703 (15.55%) Java Software Engineer
5 693 (15.33%) Developer
6 651 (14.40%) Senior
7 632 (13.98%) Lead Software Engineer
8 364 (8.05%) Full Stack Engineer
9 348 (7.70%) Python Engineer
10 347 (7.67%) Big Data Engineer
10 347 (7.67%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 332 (7.34%) Python Software Engineer
12 310 (6.86%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 304 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
13 304 (6.72%) Project Manager
14 298 (6.59%) AWS Software Engineer
15 284 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 245 (5.42%) Lead Java Engineer
17 228 (5.04%) Scala Engineer
17 228 (5.04%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 690 (15.26%) Spring
2 674 (14.90%) React
3 553 (12.23%) AngularJS
4 458 (10.13%) .NET
5 443 (9.80%) Spring Boot
6 401 (8.87%) Kafka
7 387 (8.56%) HTML
8 309 (6.83%) JSON
9 302 (6.68%) CSS
10 301 (6.66%) Node.js
11 270 (5.97%) RESTful
12 258 (5.71%) J2EE
13 236 (5.22%) Web Services
14 232 (5.13%) REST
15 223 (4.93%) Hibernate
16 203 (4.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 182 (4.02%) PySpark
18 176 (3.89%) XML
19 172 (3.80%) JMS
20 160 (3.54%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 781 (17.27%) Algorithms
2 778 (17.20%) Cloud Native
3 304 (6.72%) Public Cloud
4 222 (4.91%) Management Information System
5 218 (4.82%) Product Ownership
6 182 (4.02%) Onboarding
7 123 (2.72%) Reference Data
8 115 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 111 (2.45%) Data Structures
10 105 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
11 85 (1.88%) Market Risk
12 80 (1.77%) Distributed Applications
13 73 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 73 (1.61%) Mobile App
14 65 (1.44%) Blockchain
14 65 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
15 64 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
16 56 (1.24%) Virtual Team
17 48 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 48 (1.06%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 314 (6.94%) Linux
2 153 (3.38%) Unix
3 78 (1.72%) Windows
4 61 (1.35%) Android
5 50 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
9 7 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.11%) ThreadX
11 4 (0.088%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.088%) VxWorks
12 3 (0.066%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.066%) VMS
12 3 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.044%) Solaris
13 2 (0.044%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.044%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.044%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,489 (77.16%) Agile
2 2,645 (58.49%) Software Engineering
3 2,172 (48.03%) CI/CD
4 1,749 (38.68%) Operational Stability
5 1,345 (29.74%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,288 (28.48%) Machine Learning
7 1,226 (27.11%) Community of Practice
8 958 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 846 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
10 807 (17.85%) Visualisation
11 689 (15.24%) Risk Management
12 687 (15.19%) Microservices
13 650 (14.37%) DevOps
14 638 (14.11%) Full Stack Development
15 550 (12.16%) Computer Science
16 546 (12.07%) Decision-Making
17 541 (11.96%) Project Management
18 510 (11.28%) Continuous Delivery
19 485 (10.73%) Test Automation
20 448 (9.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,941 (42.92%) Java
2 1,418 (31.36%) SQL
3 1,113 (24.61%) Python
4 670 (14.82%) JavaScript
5 485 (10.73%) C#
6 358 (7.92%) Scala
7 296 (6.55%) TypeScript
8 159 (3.52%) PL/SQL
9 135 (2.99%) C++
10 134 (2.96%) Go
11 125 (2.76%) C
12 82 (1.81%) Kotlin
13 77 (1.70%) PHP
14 71 (1.57%) VB
15 65 (1.44%) Prolog
15 65 (1.44%) SPARQL
16 60 (1.33%) Bash
17 57 (1.26%) PowerShell
18 48 (1.06%) T-SQL
19 38 (0.84%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 487 (10.77%) Degree
2 275 (6.08%) Security Cleared
3 202 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 121 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 94 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 87 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 78 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 77 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 72 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 45 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 30 (0.66%) CISSP
12 29 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 24 (0.53%) CISM
14 22 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (0.49%) PMP
15 21 (0.46%) DBS Check
16 20 (0.44%) ISEB
17 13 (0.29%) HNC
18 12 (0.27%) HND
19 10 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (4.75%) QA
2 75 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 73 (1.61%) SLA
4 61 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.08%) PMO
6 37 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (0.75%) NIST
8 32 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.38%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.31%) ISO 9000
11 10 (0.22%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.22%) SEPA
12 8 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 8 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.18%) IEC 62304
13 7 (0.15%) COBIT
13 7 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.13%) TickIT
14 6 (0.13%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 349 (7.72%) Docker
2 120 (2.65%) HDFS
3 86 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 57 (1.26%) Firmware
5 22 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
6 19 (0.42%) vSphere
7 17 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
8 14 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 6 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.022%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.022%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 571 (12.63%) Kubernetes
2 397 (8.78%) Terraform
3 160 (3.54%) Grafana
4 91 (2.01%) Ansible
5 74 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 34 (0.75%) Kibana
7 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
8 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.22%) Puppet
10 7 (0.15%) Control-M
10 7 (0.15%) Graphite
11 6 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.11%) Argo
12 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.11%) Packer
13 4 (0.088%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.088%) vRealize
13 4 (0.088%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 531 (11.74%) Oracle
2 290 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 259 (5.73%) Databricks
4 151 (3.34%) Splunk
5 135 (2.99%) Google
6 133 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 91 (2.01%) Informatica
8 82 (1.81%) Cloudera
9 72 (1.59%) IBM
10 67 (1.48%) Sybase
11 55 (1.22%) Alteryx
12 49 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 48 (1.06%) OpenLink
13 48 (1.06%) Sparx
13 48 (1.06%) TIBCO
14 45 (1.00%) Salesforce
15 43 (0.95%) SAP
16 38 (0.84%) Atlassian
17 32 (0.71%) Qualtrics
18 21 (0.46%) VMware