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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 111 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 -65 +17
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 1,225 2,091 5,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.66% 2.45% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.86% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 804 1,359 2,480
10th Percentile £41,363 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £47,500 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -0.10%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £84,292
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,300 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

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 43,121 73,145 88,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.64% 85.85% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,789 53,950 52,293
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +10 391 £80,000 - 623
North of England +7 310 £50,055 -12.95% 211
North West -1 245 £50,055 -16.58% 136
Midlands +44 205 £55,000 -4.35% 104
South East +4 198 £60,000 +4.35% 240
West Midlands +35 129 £59,125 +2.83% 67
South West -21 82 £55,000 -4.35% 92
East Midlands +33 76 £55,000 +10.00% 30
Yorkshire +8 43 £70,000 +40.00% 47
East of England -34 38 £47,500 -5.00% 69
North East +26 22 £55,000 -8.33% 32
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 37 (3.02%) Confluence
2 28 (2.29%) Apache
3 26 (2.12%) CMS
4 18 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.73%) Drupal
6 9 (0.73%) WordPress
7 8 (0.65%) Camunda
7 8 (0.65%) nginx
7 8 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.41%) Liferay
9 4 (0.33%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.33%) IIS
9 4 (0.33%) Kentico
9 4 (0.33%) Kinematics
9 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.24%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.41%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.082%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.082%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.98%) Endur
3 9 (0.73%) Shopify
4 7 (0.57%) Magento
4 7 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.082%) iTrent
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.082%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.082%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.082%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.082%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 253 (20.65%) Azure
2 198 (16.16%) AWS
3 94 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (5.39%) Serverless
5 62 (5.06%) GCP
6 53 (4.33%) SaaS
7 49 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 37 (3.02%) Amazon S3
9 35 (2.86%) GitHub
10 29 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
10 29 (2.37%) IBM Cloud
11 28 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (2.04%) PaaS
14 22 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
14 22 (1.80%) Power Automate
15 21 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.55%) PowerApps
17 16 (1.31%) Datadog
18 15 (1.22%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.14%) HTTP
2 13 (1.06%) Network Security
3 10 (0.82%) Firewall
4 8 (0.65%) 5G
4 8 (0.65%) Multicast
4 8 (0.65%) VPN
5 4 (0.33%) 3GPP
5 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.33%) WAN
5 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.24%) Wireless
6 3 (0.24%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.16%) 4G
7 2 (0.16%) DNS
7 2 (0.16%) FTP
8 1 (0.082%) Internet
8 1 (0.082%) Intranet
8 1 (0.082%) Modbus
8 1 (0.082%) SAN
8 1 (0.082%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 47 (3.84%) NoSQL
3 38 (3.10%) Relational Database
4 36 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
5 29 (2.37%) MongoDB
6 25 (2.04%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.47%) Power BI
8 14 (1.14%) RDBMS
8 14 (1.14%) Redis
9 13 (1.06%) Apache Hive
9 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (0.98%) Oracle Database
11 11 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.57%) Big Data
13 7 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 138 (11.27%) JIRA
2 135 (11.02%) Git
3 73 (5.96%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.35%) JUnit
4 41 (3.35%) Selenium
5 35 (2.86%) Maven
6 32 (2.61%) Mockito
7 26 (2.12%) GitLab
8 25 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.04%) Visual Studio
9 24 (1.96%) Postman
10 21 (1.71%) JMeter
11 20 (1.63%) Eclipse
12 19 (1.55%) Eclipse RCP
13 17 (1.39%) Cypress.io
13 17 (1.39%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.14%) IntelliJ
14 14 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
15 12 (0.98%) SoapUI
15 12 (0.98%) SpecFlow
General
1 293 (23.92%) Finance
2 244 (19.92%) Social Skills
3 151 (12.33%) Aerospace
4 111 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (9.06%) Avionics
5 97 (7.92%) Banking
6 94 (7.67%) Law
7 87 (7.10%) Public Sector
8 72 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 48 (3.92%) Marketing
10 41 (3.35%) Retail
11 31 (2.53%) Financial Institution
12 30 (2.45%) Legal
13 28 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.88%) Games
15 20 (1.63%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.31%) Front Office
18 12 (0.98%) Electronics
19 11 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 350 (28.57%) Senior
2 213 (17.39%) Developer
3 169 (13.80%) Software Engineer
4 136 (11.10%) Lead
5 114 (9.31%) Systems Engineer
6 111 (9.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 93 (7.59%) Analyst
8 82 (6.69%) Principal Engineer
9 67 (5.47%) Senior Developer
10 58 (4.73%) Architect
11 55 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 53 (4.33%) .NET Developer
13 51 (4.16%) Java Developer
13 51 (4.16%) Java Engineer
14 42 (3.43%) Senior Java Engineer
15 41 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
16 39 (3.18%) Business Analyst
17 38 (3.10%) Software Manager
18 37 (3.02%) Software Developer
19 34 (2.78%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (13.55%) .NET
2 124 (10.12%) React
3 100 (8.16%) HTML
4 88 (7.18%) Spring
5 85 (6.94%) CSS
6 79 (6.45%) AngularJS
7 77 (6.29%) Node.js
8 67 (5.47%) Spring Boot
9 64 (5.22%) REST
10 46 (3.76%) ASP.NET
11 45 (3.67%) Middleware
12 43 (3.51%) GraphQL
13 40 (3.27%) XML
14 39 (3.18%) Web Services
15 36 (2.94%) Kafka
15 36 (2.94%) RESTful
16 33 (2.69%) .NET Framework
17 31 (2.53%) SOAP
18 30 (2.45%) .NET Core
19 21 (1.71%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.39%) Product Ownership
2 57 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 50 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 43 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 38 (3.10%) Security Posture
7 37 (3.02%) Cloud Native
8 31 (2.53%) Mobile App
9 29 (2.37%) Blockchain
10 26 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.96%) e-Learning
11 24 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.80%) Reinsurance
14 21 (1.71%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.47%) Onboarding
15 18 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.31%) Client/Server
17 15 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (7.43%) Linux
2 43 (3.51%) Windows
3 14 (1.14%) Unix
4 12 (0.98%) Android
5 8 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.41%) Rocky
7 4 (0.33%) Robot Operating System
7 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.082%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (46.86%) Agile
2 399 (32.57%) Software Engineering
3 263 (21.47%) DevOps
4 234 (19.10%) CI/CD
5 211 (17.22%) Mentoring
6 208 (16.98%) Software Testing
7 200 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 195 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 168 (13.71%) Computer Science
10 146 (11.92%) Test Automation
11 145 (11.84%) Customer Requirements
12 135 (11.02%) Waterfall
13 126 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
14 119 (9.71%) Microservices
15 118 (9.63%) Business Case
16 115 (9.39%) Feasibility Study
17 113 (9.22%) Requirements Management
18 112 (9.14%) Scrum
18 112 (9.14%) Systems Engineering
19 111 (9.06%) Hazard Analysis
Programming Languages
1 315 (25.71%) Java
2 260 (21.22%) SQL
3 228 (18.61%) Python
4 211 (17.22%) C#
5 177 (14.45%) JavaScript
6 68 (5.55%) C++
7 49 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 47 (3.84%) C
9 43 (3.51%) Ada
10 37 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 29 (2.37%) PHP
12 26 (2.12%) Rust
13 24 (1.96%) Go
14 18 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 17 (1.39%) Bash
16 14 (1.14%) PL/SQL
16 14 (1.14%) Scala
16 14 (1.14%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.82%) Fortran
18 9 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 464 (37.88%) Degree
2 249 (20.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 82 (6.69%) Security Cleared
4 64 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.84%) Master's Degree
6 42 (3.43%) SC Cleared
7 21 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.39%) ISTQB
8 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.22%) PhD
10 13 (1.06%) CISSP
11 12 (0.98%) Chartered Engineer
12 11 (0.90%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.49%) CCSP
14 6 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.49%) PMP
15 5 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.27%) QA
2 56 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (3.84%) GDPR
4 45 (3.67%) NIST
5 22 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.80%) NCSC
6 18 (1.47%) SOC 2
7 17 (1.39%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 12 (0.98%) PMO
9 7 (0.57%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.24%) COBIT
11 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.24%) GRC
11 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.24%) PMBOK
11 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 154 (12.57%) Docker
2 13 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.41%) Apache Flume
5 4 (0.33%) Firmware
5 4 (0.33%) vSphere
6 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.082%) HDFS
7 1 (0.082%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 141 (11.51%) Kubernetes
2 55 (4.49%) Terraform
3 27 (2.20%) Ansible
4 12 (0.98%) Grafana
5 11 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.57%) Kibana
7 5 (0.41%) HP Fortify
7 5 (0.41%) Oozie
8 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (0.24%) Puppet
9 3 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.082%) Argo
10 1 (0.082%) CASB
10 1 (0.082%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.082%) Packer
10 1 (0.082%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 153 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.94%) Oracle
3 72 (5.88%) Siemens
4 44 (3.59%) IBM
5 38 (3.10%) Google
6 35 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 22 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.47%) SAP
9 14 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.98%) OpenLink
11 11 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.90%) Splunk
12 10 (0.82%) Databricks
12 10 (0.82%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.49%) Alibaba
13 6 (0.49%) Intel
13 6 (0.49%) Sybase
14 5 (0.41%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.41%) Tanium
14 5 (0.41%) Xamarin