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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 46 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +4
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 4,490 6,100 8,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 6.02% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 6.30% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 2,892 4,201
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,959 £39,124
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -2.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 +3 3,818 £55,000 -4.35% 429
Scotland +21 2,227 £65,000 -3.70% 43
England -75 2,053 £60,500 -0.66% 586
Work from Home -9 1,152 £60,000 -4.00% 323
London -73 573 £80,000 +3.23% 215
North of England -69 414 £56,250 -2.17% 108
South East -60 381 £57,500 - 84
South West -20 294 £58,750 +6.82% 60
North West -69 255 £60,000 +14.29% 66
Midlands -104 231 £57,500 +4.55% 76
East of England -44 143 £50,000 -13.04% 34
West Midlands -103 138 £57,500 - 45
Yorkshire -63 113 £50,000 -13.04% 33
East Midlands -76 93 £50,000 -9.09% 31
Wales +17 90 £50,000 +11.11% 14
North East +2 46 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Northern Ireland +31 38 £55,000 -4.35% 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
1 560 (12.47%) Apache Spark
2 140 (3.12%) Apache
3 135 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.18%) FileNet
5 56 (1.25%) Camunda
6 51 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 49 (1.09%) WebLogic
8 45 (1.00%) nginx
9 39 (0.87%) SharePoint
10 35 (0.78%) Confluence
11 22 (0.49%) GemFire
12 17 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 16 (0.36%) SAS
14 11 (0.24%) CICS
15 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 8 (0.18%) Apache Pig
16 8 (0.18%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.16%) CMS
18 6 (0.13%) IIS
19 5 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 68 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.71%) UserZoom
4 30 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.33%) SPSS
8 6 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 40 (0.89%) Endur
3 14 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.16%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.089%) Relativity
8 3 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.045%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.045%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.045%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.045%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.045%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.045%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 1 (0.022%) Data Workbench
10 1 (0.022%) Postilion
10 1 (0.022%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 1,605 (35.75%) AWS
2 731 (16.28%) Azure
3 211 (4.70%) GCP
4 163 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
5 154 (3.43%) SaaS
6 141 (3.14%) Amazon S3
7 134 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
8 131 (2.92%) GitHub
9 116 (2.58%) Serverless
10 101 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
11 94 (2.09%) Datadog
12 83 (1.85%) Power Platform
13 82 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
14 77 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
15 74 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
16 68 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
17 66 (1.47%) PaaS
18 60 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
19 55 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
20 54 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 87 (1.94%) DNS
1 87 (1.94%) TCP/IP
2 82 (1.83%) Kerberos
3 48 (1.07%) SSL
4 46 (1.02%) BGP
5 38 (0.85%) HTTP
6 29 (0.65%) DHCP
7 21 (0.47%) Firewall
8 19 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (0.40%) DSL
9 18 (0.40%) Internet
9 18 (0.40%) Network Security
10 17 (0.38%) VPN
11 16 (0.36%) Wireless
12 14 (0.31%) Bluetooth
13 12 (0.27%) NGFW
14 10 (0.22%) VoIP
15 9 (0.20%) MQTT
16 8 (0.18%) Broadband
16 8 (0.18%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 722 (16.08%) NoSQL
2 504 (11.22%) Big Data
3 301 (6.70%) Relational Database
4 253 (5.63%) SQL Server
5 210 (4.68%) Hadoop
6 151 (3.36%) Apache Hive
7 145 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 140 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
8 140 (3.12%) RDBMS
9 127 (2.83%) MySQL
10 121 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 102 (2.27%) HBase
12 96 (2.14%) Metadata
13 93 (2.07%) Oracle Database
14 86 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
15 85 (1.89%) Data Lake
16 76 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
17 73 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
18 60 (1.34%) Power BI
19 51 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 388 (8.64%) Git
2 387 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 230 (5.12%) JUnit
4 213 (4.74%) JIRA
5 105 (2.34%) Jasmine
6 90 (2.00%) Selenium
7 88 (1.96%) Cypress.io
8 87 (1.94%) Maven
9 86 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
10 82 (1.83%) Bitbucket
11 67 (1.49%) Artifactory
12 64 (1.43%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.34%) Karma Test Runner
13 60 (1.34%) Protractor
14 52 (1.16%) Postman
15 50 (1.11%) Mockito
16 46 (1.02%) Visual Studio
17 44 (0.98%) GitLab
18 39 (0.87%) JMeter
19 36 (0.80%) Gradle
General
1 2,566 (57.15%) Finance
2 2,278 (50.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,160 (48.11%) Law
4 1,222 (27.22%) Marketing
5 846 (18.84%) Social Skills
6 683 (15.21%) Legal
7 489 (10.89%) Banking
8 337 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
8 337 (7.51%) Investment Banking
9 250 (5.57%) Financial Institution
10 197 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
11 103 (2.29%) Public Sector
12 86 (1.92%) Aerospace
12 86 (1.92%) Retail
13 81 (1.80%) Games
14 75 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 63 (1.40%) Electronics
16 58 (1.29%) Private Banking
17 56 (1.25%) Manufacturing
18 37 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,131 (47.46%) Software Engineer
2 937 (20.87%) Lead
3 727 (16.19%) Java Engineer
4 711 (15.84%) Java Software Engineer
5 696 (15.50%) Developer
6 646 (14.39%) Senior
7 640 (14.25%) Lead Software Engineer
8 367 (8.17%) Full Stack Engineer
9 350 (7.80%) Python Engineer
10 347 (7.73%) Big Data Engineer
10 347 (7.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 336 (7.48%) Python Software Engineer
12 314 (6.99%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 305 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
14 299 (6.66%) AWS Software Engineer
15 291 (6.48%) Project Manager
16 290 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
17 248 (5.52%) Lead Java Engineer
18 228 (5.08%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (5.08%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 686 (15.28%) Spring
2 683 (15.21%) React
3 557 (12.41%) AngularJS
4 460 (10.24%) .NET
5 441 (9.82%) Spring Boot
6 394 (8.78%) Kafka
7 380 (8.46%) HTML
8 310 (6.90%) JSON
9 308 (6.86%) CSS
10 300 (6.68%) Node.js
11 273 (6.08%) RESTful
12 261 (5.81%) J2EE
13 237 (5.28%) Web Services
14 231 (5.14%) REST
15 227 (5.06%) Hibernate
16 204 (4.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 184 (4.10%) PySpark
18 175 (3.90%) XML
19 173 (3.85%) JMS
20 162 (3.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 789 (17.57%) Algorithms
2 782 (17.42%) Cloud Native
3 306 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 227 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 222 (4.94%) Product Ownership
6 183 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 125 (2.78%) Reference Data
8 113 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 112 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
10 109 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
11 87 (1.94%) Market Risk
12 81 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
13 73 (1.63%) Mobile App
14 71 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
15 65 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
16 64 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
17 60 (1.34%) Blockchain
18 50 (1.11%) Virtual Team
19 48 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
20 45 (1.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 314 (6.99%) Linux
2 154 (3.43%) Unix
3 79 (1.76%) Windows
4 62 (1.38%) Android
5 50 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.38%) 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 Server 2012
13 2 (0.045%) Solaris
13 2 (0.045%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.045%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 2 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.045%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.022%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,466 (77.19%) Agile
2 2,648 (58.98%) Software Engineering
3 2,183 (48.62%) CI/CD
4 1,767 (39.35%) Operational Stability
5 1,358 (30.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,305 (29.06%) Machine Learning
7 1,237 (27.55%) Community of Practice
8 970 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 834 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
10 816 (18.17%) Visualisation
11 698 (15.55%) Risk Management
12 689 (15.35%) Microservices
13 649 (14.45%) DevOps
14 642 (14.30%) Full Stack Development
15 552 (12.29%) Decision-Making
16 550 (12.25%) Computer Science
17 534 (11.89%) Project Management
18 507 (11.29%) Continuous Delivery
19 479 (10.67%) Test Automation
20 451 (10.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,928 (42.94%) Java
2 1,419 (31.60%) SQL
3 1,107 (24.65%) Python
4 675 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 490 (10.91%) C#
6 357 (7.95%) Scala
7 302 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 161 (3.59%) PL/SQL
9 135 (3.01%) Go
10 133 (2.96%) C++
11 126 (2.81%) C
12 86 (1.92%) Kotlin
13 76 (1.69%) PHP
14 65 (1.45%) Prolog
14 65 (1.45%) SPARQL
15 63 (1.40%) VB
16 61 (1.36%) Bash
17 53 (1.18%) PowerShell
18 49 (1.09%) T-SQL
19 38 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 488 (10.87%) Degree
2 271 (6.04%) Security Cleared
3 198 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 118 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 94 (2.09%) AWS Certification
6 89 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 78 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 74 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 71 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 45 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 30 (0.67%) CISSP
12 27 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 24 (0.53%) CISM
14 23 (0.51%) PMP
15 22 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.47%) DBS Check
17 18 (0.40%) ISEB
18 13 (0.29%) HNC
19 12 (0.27%) HND
19 12 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (4.77%) QA
2 79 (1.76%) Data Quality
3 73 (1.63%) SLA
4 61 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.09%) PMO
6 37 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.73%) NIST
8 32 (0.71%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.18%) IEC 62304
13 7 (0.16%) COBIT
13 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.13%) TickIT
14 6 (0.13%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.11%) GDPR
15 5 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 329 (7.33%) Docker
2 120 (2.67%) HDFS
3 87 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 56 (1.25%) Firmware
5 22 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
6 17 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 6 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.045%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.022%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 563 (12.54%) Kubernetes
2 397 (8.84%) Terraform
3 160 (3.56%) Grafana
4 89 (1.98%) Ansible
5 74 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 34 (0.76%) Kibana
7 21 (0.47%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.47%) Zipkin
8 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.22%) Puppet
10 7 (0.16%) Graphite
11 6 (0.13%) Argo
11 6 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.13%) Control-M
12 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.089%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.089%) Packer
14 3 (0.067%) Salt
14 3 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 529 (11.78%) Oracle
2 289 (6.44%) Microsoft
3 260 (5.79%) Databricks
4 152 (3.39%) Splunk
5 134 (2.98%) Dynatrace
5 134 (2.98%) Google
6 91 (2.03%) Informatica
7 82 (1.83%) Cloudera
8 73 (1.63%) IBM
9 59 (1.31%) Sybase
10 57 (1.27%) Alteryx
11 49 (1.09%) Red Hat
12 48 (1.07%) Sparx
13 44 (0.98%) SAP
14 43 (0.96%) Salesforce
15 40 (0.89%) OpenLink
15 40 (0.89%) TIBCO
16 33 (0.73%) Atlassian
17 32 (0.71%) Qualtrics
18 20 (0.45%) Pega