SDLC Jobs in England

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 75 69
Rank change year-on-year -40 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 1,831 2,922 7,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.34% 4.11% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 4.31% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 2,152 3,850
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,625 £50,000 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,800 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £92,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.72% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,248 67,718 141,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.99% 95.27% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 43,335 45,004 76,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in England

SDLC
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
London -54 560 £80,000 +10.34% 68
North of England -18 352 £57,500 - 54
South East -36 347 £58,000 +0.87% 43
Midlands -38 265 £50,000 -10.71% 50
North West +14 225 £60,000 +4.35% 31
South West -29 212 £57,500 -5.43% 31
West Midlands -47 135 £50,000 -13.04% 34
East Midlands -14 129 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Yorkshire -26 97 £52,500 -11.39% 19
East of England -55 76 £55,000 -8.33% 14
North East -25 30 £57,500 - 6
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 44 (2.40%) nginx
2 38 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.91%) Camunda
4 30 (1.64%) Apache
4 30 (1.64%) WebLogic
5 27 (1.47%) Confluence
6 24 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 18 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.44%) SAS
10 6 (0.33%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Drupal
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.11%) GlassFish
12 2 (0.11%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) JCAPS
12 2 (0.11%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 55 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 25 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.38%) Simulink
6 7 (0.38%) SPSS
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.11%) Trello
8 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 26 (1.42%) Endur
3 24 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.22%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.16%) Relativity
7 2 (0.11%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 1 (0.055%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.055%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.055%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 1 (0.055%) Postilion
8 1 (0.055%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.055%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 449 (24.52%) Azure
2 434 (23.70%) AWS
3 127 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
4 101 (5.52%) SaaS
5 90 (4.92%) GCP
6 78 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 66 (3.60%) IBM Cloud
8 57 (3.11%) PowerApps
9 50 (2.73%) Power Automate
10 48 (2.62%) Serverless
11 46 (2.51%) GitHub
12 40 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
13 38 (2.08%) PaaS
14 37 (2.02%) Amazon S3
15 36 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
16 35 (1.91%) OpenShift
17 32 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
18 30 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
19 29 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.08%) DNS
2 35 (1.91%) SSL
3 31 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.53%) BGP
5 11 (0.60%) Network Security
6 9 (0.49%) Internet
7 8 (0.44%) SSH
8 7 (0.38%) Firewall
8 7 (0.38%) VPN
9 6 (0.33%) AMQP
10 5 (0.27%) IPsec
11 4 (0.22%) 5G
11 4 (0.22%) HTTP
12 3 (0.16%) Broadband
13 2 (0.11%) 4G
13 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.11%) FlexRay
13 2 (0.11%) FTP
13 2 (0.11%) Multicast
13 2 (0.11%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 128 (6.99%) Relational Database
3 86 (4.70%) RDBMS
4 74 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 65 (3.55%) MySQL
7 60 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
8 56 (3.06%) MongoDB
9 54 (2.95%) NoSQL
10 53 (2.89%) Power BI
11 43 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
12 41 (2.24%) Big Data
13 38 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.75%) Metadata
15 25 (1.37%) BigQuery
16 23 (1.26%) Data Lake
17 22 (1.20%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.93%) Redis
19 14 (0.76%) Data Mining
20 12 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 155 (8.47%) JIRA
2 149 (8.14%) Git
3 72 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.29%) Visual Studio
5 39 (2.13%) Postman
6 28 (1.53%) Selenium
7 27 (1.47%) GitLab
8 23 (1.26%) JUnit
9 21 (1.15%) SpecFlow
10 20 (1.09%) NUnit
11 18 (0.98%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.87%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.76%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.76%) LabVIEW
14 13 (0.71%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.66%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.66%) Mocha
16 10 (0.55%) JMeter
16 10 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
17 9 (0.49%) MSTest
General
1 531 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 338 (18.46%) Finance
3 221 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (7.43%) Legal
5 133 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 127 (6.94%) Retail
7 109 (5.95%) Marketing
8 99 (5.41%) Public Sector
9 82 (4.48%) Banking
9 82 (4.48%) Law
10 67 (3.66%) Aerospace
11 42 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.97%) Games
13 31 (1.69%) Investment Banking
14 30 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.58%) Retail Banking
16 28 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.26%) Automotive
18 22 (1.20%) Electronics
18 22 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 434 (23.70%) Developer
2 355 (19.39%) Senior
3 263 (14.36%) Lead
4 258 (14.09%) Software Engineer
5 178 (9.72%) Analyst
6 138 (7.54%) Architect
7 135 (7.37%) Project Manager
8 130 (7.10%) Business Analyst
9 114 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 99 (5.41%) Senior Developer
11 83 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 80 (4.37%) .NET Developer
13 76 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
14 68 (3.71%) Software Developer
15 67 (3.66%) Full Stack Engineer
16 63 (3.44%) Presales Manager
17 57 (3.11%) Technical Leader
18 56 (3.06%) Full Stack Developer
19 52 (2.84%) C# Developer
19 52 (2.84%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (17.04%) .NET
2 197 (10.76%) React
3 126 (6.88%) Spring Boot
4 115 (6.28%) AngularJS
5 112 (6.12%) HTML
6 111 (6.06%) CSS
7 97 (5.30%) .NET Framework
8 96 (5.24%) Spring
9 83 (4.53%) ASP.NET
10 81 (4.42%) .NET Core
10 81 (4.42%) Node.js
11 75 (4.10%) RESTful
12 72 (3.93%) Kafka
13 61 (3.33%) REST
14 59 (3.22%) JSON
15 57 (3.11%) Web Services
16 51 (2.79%) Vue
17 44 (2.40%) Swagger
17 44 (2.40%) XML
18 35 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 123 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 93 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 89 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
4 85 (4.64%) Algorithms
5 76 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (3.93%) Blockchain
7 70 (3.82%) Cloud Native
8 66 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 59 (3.22%) Mobile App
10 51 (2.79%) Public Cloud
11 49 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
12 42 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (2.18%) e-Learning
14 29 (1.58%) IoT
15 24 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.31%) Swaptions
16 21 (1.15%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.04%) Security Posture
18 17 (0.93%) Data Structures
19 15 (0.82%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 183 (9.99%) Linux
2 59 (3.22%) Windows
3 39 (2.13%) Unix
4 32 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (1.69%) Android
6 24 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.055%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (53.41%) Agile
2 479 (26.16%) Software Engineering
3 467 (25.51%) DevOps
4 417 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
5 331 (18.08%) CI/CD
6 326 (17.80%) Project Management
7 275 (15.02%) Scrum
8 246 (13.44%) Computer Science
9 241 (13.16%) Mentoring
10 239 (13.05%) Roadmaps
11 221 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 219 (11.96%) Full Stack Development
13 215 (11.74%) Software Testing
14 202 (11.03%) Microservices
15 187 (10.21%) Coaching
16 156 (8.52%) Collaborative Working
17 154 (8.41%) Test Automation
18 152 (8.30%) Project Delivery
19 147 (8.03%) Artificial Intelligence
20 141 (7.70%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 417 (22.77%) Java
2 334 (18.24%) C#
3 325 (17.75%) SQL
4 318 (17.37%) JavaScript
5 294 (16.06%) Python
6 157 (8.57%) C++
7 105 (5.73%) C
8 91 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 82 (4.48%) Bash
10 60 (3.28%) PHP
11 52 (2.84%) Go
12 45 (2.46%) Scala
13 42 (2.29%) Kotlin
14 41 (2.24%) PowerShell
15 36 (1.97%) Fortran
15 36 (1.97%) VB
16 35 (1.91%) Lua
17 33 (1.80%) Perl
18 19 (1.04%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.82%) RPG
Qualifications
1 412 (22.50%) Degree
2 220 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 120 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 87 (4.75%) SC Cleared
5 63 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 55 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 46 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 43 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 31 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (1.64%) ISTQB
10 30 (1.64%) PhD
11 27 (1.47%) PMI Certification
12 24 (1.31%) ISEB
13 16 (0.87%) CISSP
14 13 (0.71%) CISM
14 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.55%) PMP
17 8 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (0.44%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (12.89%) QA
2 40 (2.18%) Data Quality
3 30 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.20%) PMO
5 19 (1.04%) NIST
6 15 (0.82%) ISO 9001
7 11 (0.60%) GDPR
8 10 (0.55%) ISO 9000
9 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.38%) TickIT
11 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.27%) Solvency II
13 4 (0.22%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.11%) GxP
15 2 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 1 (0.055%) Def Stans
System Software
1 247 (13.49%) Docker
2 24 (1.31%) Firmware
3 13 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.33%) HDFS
7 1 (0.055%) GridGain
7 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.055%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 200 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 141 (7.70%) Terraform
3 74 (4.04%) Ansible
4 18 (0.98%) Grafana
5 17 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.38%) Puppet
8 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.27%) Kibana
9 4 (0.22%) Packer
9 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.16%) Control-M
10 3 (0.16%) Salt
11 2 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 232 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 116 (6.34%) Oracle
3 81 (4.42%) IBM
4 67 (3.66%) Red Hat
5 65 (3.55%) Google
6 30 (1.64%) Sparx
7 26 (1.42%) OpenLink
7 26 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.37%) Sybase
9 24 (1.31%) Databricks
9 24 (1.31%) TIBCO
10 22 (1.20%) SAP
11 17 (0.93%) BT
12 14 (0.76%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.60%) Apple
13 11 (0.60%) Nintex
14 10 (0.55%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.49%) Splunk
16 7 (0.38%) DocuSign
17 6 (0.33%) Veracode