SDLC Jobs in Birmingham

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 83 28
Rank change year-on-year +24 -55 +55
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 48 72 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.63% 2.47% 7.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.08% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 28 70 84
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £40,375
25th Percentile £35,063 £43,750 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,475 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.88% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £69,688 £68,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £68,750
West Midlands median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% - +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SDLC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,263 2,341 1,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 95.61% 80.31% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,888 1,337
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,315
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Birmingham

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Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Birmingham

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Azure
2 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (10.42%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.25%) Figma
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.08%) AWS
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) 3GPP
1 4 (8.33%) 5G
2 1 (2.08%) Wireless
2 1 (2.08%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.08%) DB2
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) GitLab
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (10.42%) Law
2 5 (10.42%) Police
2 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.25%) Automotive
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Advertising
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Lead
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Graduate
6 4 (8.33%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Graduate Java Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Product Manager
7 3 (6.25%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Process Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) GWT
1 5 (10.42%) J2EE
1 5 (10.42%) JPA
1 5 (10.42%) Middleware
1 5 (10.42%) REST
1 5 (10.42%) Vaadin
2 4 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Rocky
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Agile
2 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
2 11 (22.92%) Software Testing
3 10 (20.83%) DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 9 (18.75%) Waterfall
5 8 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (14.58%) Manual Testing
6 7 (14.58%) Scrum
7 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (12.50%) Regression Testing
7 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (10.42%) Clean Code
8 5 (10.42%) Microservices
8 5 (10.42%) Project Management
8 5 (10.42%) Requirements Analysis
8 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
8 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (10.42%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) SQL
2 6 (12.50%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.08%) C
5 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Degree
2 9 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) NCSC
3 2 (4.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Grafana
1 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) Siemens
3 7 (14.58%) SAP
4 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Sybase
5 1 (2.08%) VMware