SDLC Jobs in Edinburgh

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 48 26
Rank change year-on-year -16 -22 +13
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 24 69 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.74% 4.57% 10.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 5.18% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9 42 107
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,375 £59,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £82,788 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +19.21% +15.75%
75th Percentile £93,778 £122,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,072 £137,913 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year - -0.76% +9.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 851 1,331 1,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.15% 88.20% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 363 933 1,075
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £35,740
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £89,941
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Edinburgh

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (8.33%) Apache Solr
1 2 (8.33%) CMS
1 2 (8.33%) Sitecore CMS
1 2 (8.33%) Umbraco
1 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.17%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
1 8 (33.33%) GCP
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
1 1 (4.17%) SSL
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JUnit
1 3 (12.50%) Selenium
1 3 (12.50%) TestNG
2 2 (8.33%) MSBuild
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (8.33%) webpack
3 1 (4.17%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Angular Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Audit Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) CSS
2 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (12.50%) Spring
2 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) J2EE
3 2 (8.33%) Java EE
3 2 (8.33%) Next.js
3 2 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (8.33%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) Sass
3 2 (8.33%) SOAP
3 2 (8.33%) Vue
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) SwiftUI
4 1 (4.17%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
1 7 (29.17%) Public Cloud
2 5 (20.83%) Mobile App
3 4 (16.67%) Private Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) Clustering
4 2 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.17%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Android
3 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 11 (45.83%) Test Automation
3 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
6 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
6 7 (29.17%) Observability
7 6 (25.00%) DevOps
7 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) Software Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (16.67%) Microservices
9 4 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
10 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (12.50%) Design Thinking
10 3 (12.50%) Release Train
10 3 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 3 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) JCL
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) CA Endevor
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Optimizely
3 2 (8.33%) Sitecore
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk