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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 43 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 -21 +19
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 28 69 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.14% 4.63% 11.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 5.17% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 15 43 122
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £57,750 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £83,577 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% +20.35% +15.75%
75th Percentile £93,778 £122,500 £84,775
90th Percentile - £137,913 £94,500
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.99% +11.67%

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 868 1,335 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.42% 89.60% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 394 935 1,136
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
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 16 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 (7.14%) Apache Solr
1 2 (7.14%) CMS
1 2 (7.14%) Sitecore CMS
1 2 (7.14%) Umbraco
1 2 (7.14%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.57%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) GCP
3 8 (28.57%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
1 1 (3.57%) SSL
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JUnit
1 5 (17.86%) Selenium
1 5 (17.86%) TestNG
2 3 (10.71%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) webpack
3 2 (7.14%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) MSBuild
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 11 (39.29%) Banking
3 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
4 6 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Test Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Angular Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Audit Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior IT Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) CSS
2 5 (17.86%) HTML
3 4 (14.29%) Spring
3 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.71%) OpenFin
5 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.14%) J2EE
5 2 (7.14%) Java EE
5 2 (7.14%) Next.js
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (7.14%) React
5 2 (7.14%) REST
5 2 (7.14%) Sass
5 2 (7.14%) SOAP
5 2 (7.14%) Vue
6 1 (3.57%) JSON
6 1 (3.57%) Middleware
6 1 (3.57%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Public Cloud
2 7 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (10.71%) Mainframe
4 3 (10.71%) Private Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (3.57%) Clustering
6 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.57%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Unix
3 2 (7.14%) VMS
4 1 (3.57%) Android
4 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
4 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 8 (28.57%) Software Testing
6 7 (25.00%) DevOps
7 5 (17.86%) Exploratory Testing
7 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 5 (17.86%) Observability
7 5 (17.86%) SDET
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
9 3 (10.71%) Cash Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) Java
2 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
2 11 (39.29%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) JCL
5 3 (10.71%) Bash
5 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.14%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.57%) Swift
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) CA Endevor
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Optimizely
3 2 (7.14%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk