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 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 110 119 44
Rank change year-on-year +9 -75 +21
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 1,407 2,045 5,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.86% 2.38% 6.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.79% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 816 1,336 2,468
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,730
25th Percentile £48,869 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -6.31%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,031 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,625 £96,912
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -2.56%

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 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 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 16 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
North of England +17 416 £50,055 -12.95% 226
London +14 364 £80,000 - 690
North West +17 350 £50,055 -16.58% 150
Midlands +56 267 £55,000 -4.35% 112
South East -2 216 £61,250 +6.52% 286
West Midlands +50 154 £58,250 +1.30% 59
East Midlands +34 113 £55,000 +10.00% 47
South West -7 85 £55,000 -8.33% 108
East of England -35 52 £47,500 -5.00% 64
Yorkshire +1 41 £70,000 +40.00% 54
North East +23 25 £60,000 -2.04% 27
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
1 142 (10.09%) Confluence
2 29 (2.06%) Apache
3 26 (1.85%) CMS
4 18 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.07%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.64%) Drupal
7 9 (0.64%) WordPress
8 8 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.36%) Liferay
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.28%) IIS
10 4 (0.28%) Kentico
10 4 (0.28%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.21%) Appian
11 3 (0.21%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.36%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.071%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.78%) Endur
3 10 (0.71%) Shopify
4 8 (0.57%) Magento
5 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.14%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.071%) iTrent
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.071%) Sage 1000
8 1 (0.071%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.071%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.071%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.071%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.071%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 451 (32.05%) Azure
2 359 (25.52%) AWS
3 166 (11.80%) GCP
4 95 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (4.05%) Serverless
6 54 (3.84%) SaaS
7 50 (3.55%) Power Platform
8 34 (2.42%) Amazon S3
8 34 (2.42%) GitHub
9 30 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
10 29 (2.06%) PaaS
11 26 (1.85%) Power Automate
12 23 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (1.49%) PowerApps
15 18 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
16 16 (1.14%) Datadog
17 15 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.00%) Network Security
2 13 (0.92%) HTTP
3 9 (0.64%) Firewall
4 8 (0.57%) 5G
4 8 (0.57%) Multicast
4 8 (0.57%) VPN
5 4 (0.28%) 3GPP
5 4 (0.28%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.28%) WAN
5 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.21%) Wireless
6 3 (0.21%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.14%) 4G
7 2 (0.14%) Broadband
7 2 (0.14%) DNS
7 2 (0.14%) SAN
8 1 (0.071%) FlexRay
8 1 (0.071%) Modbus
8 1 (0.071%) MQTT
8 1 (0.071%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (21.39%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.20%) NoSQL
3 31 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 20 (1.42%) Power BI
7 14 (1.00%) Redis
7 14 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (0.85%) Apache Hive
10 11 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.71%) RDBMS
12 9 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.64%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.50%) MySQL
14 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 324 (23.03%) JIRA
2 237 (16.84%) Selenium
3 224 (15.92%) GitLab
4 223 (15.85%) Cucumber
5 218 (15.49%) Maven
6 215 (15.28%) SonarQube
7 205 (14.57%) Bitbucket
8 199 (14.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 113 (8.03%) Git
10 68 (4.83%) Jenkins
11 32 (2.27%) JUnit
12 25 (1.78%) Mockito
13 24 (1.71%) Postman
13 24 (1.71%) Visual Studio
14 20 (1.42%) Eclipse
15 19 (1.35%) Eclipse RCP
16 18 (1.28%) Cypress.io
17 16 (1.14%) JMeter
18 14 (1.00%) IntelliJ
19 12 (0.85%) SoapUI
General
1 458 (32.55%) Finance
2 273 (19.40%) Banking
3 253 (17.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 245 (17.41%) Social Skills
5 171 (12.15%) Aerospace
6 131 (9.31%) Avionics
7 129 (9.17%) Retail
8 106 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
9 97 (6.89%) Investment Banking
10 90 (6.40%) Corporate Banking
11 84 (5.97%) Law
12 61 (4.34%) Public Sector
13 45 (3.20%) Marketing
14 27 (1.92%) Games
14 27 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.85%) Legal
16 19 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
18 14 (1.00%) Financial Institution
19 11 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 350 (24.88%) Senior
2 345 (24.52%) Software Engineer
3 206 (14.64%) Developer
4 140 (9.95%) Lead
5 134 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
6 131 (9.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 85 (6.04%) Analyst
8 80 (5.69%) Principal Engineer
9 75 (5.33%) Architect
10 64 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 53 (3.77%) .NET Developer
12 48 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 46 (3.27%) Java Developer
14 45 (3.20%) Java Engineer
15 41 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
16 39 (2.77%) Software Developer
17 37 (2.63%) C# Developer
17 37 (2.63%) Software Architect
18 35 (2.49%) Security Engineer
18 35 (2.49%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (21.04%) React
2 288 (20.47%) HTML
3 277 (19.69%) CSS
4 265 (18.83%) Spring
5 244 (17.34%) Spring Boot
6 234 (16.63%) Kafka
7 207 (14.71%) Redux
8 206 (14.64%) JPA
9 170 (12.08%) .NET
10 151 (10.73%) REST
11 124 (8.81%) RESTful
12 118 (8.39%) Hibernate
13 99 (7.04%) HTML5
14 98 (6.97%) CSS3
15 97 (6.89%) Sass
16 95 (6.75%) Jest
17 71 (5.05%) Middleware
18 61 (4.34%) AngularJS
19 55 (3.91%) Node.js
20 45 (3.20%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 265 (18.83%) Product Ownership
2 223 (15.85%) Enterprise Software
3 50 (3.55%) Algorithms
4 46 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 43 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 36 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 36 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 30 (2.13%) Mobile App
9 28 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.49%) Reinsurance
11 21 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.21%) Client/Server
14 17 (1.21%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.00%) Acoustics
15 14 (1.00%) Credit Derivative
15 14 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (6.61%) Linux
2 47 (3.34%) Windows
3 16 (1.14%) Unix
4 12 (0.85%) Android
5 8 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.36%) Rocky
8 4 (0.28%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.071%) Debian
11 1 (0.071%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.071%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.071%) Solaris
11 1 (0.071%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (54.80%) Agile
2 554 (39.37%) Software Engineering
3 466 (33.12%) DevOps
4 433 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 344 (24.45%) Test Automation
6 306 (21.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 305 (21.68%) Microservices
8 291 (20.68%) Mentoring
9 269 (19.12%) Full-Stack Development
10 256 (18.19%) Containerisation
11 227 (16.13%) Front End Development
12 206 (14.64%) Software Testing
13 202 (14.36%) Performance Optimisation
14 192 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
15 175 (12.44%) TDD
16 174 (12.37%) Computer Science
17 163 (11.58%) Customer Requirements
18 161 (11.44%) User Experience
19 157 (11.16%) Waterfall
20 136 (9.67%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 471 (33.48%) Java
2 441 (31.34%) SQL
3 357 (25.37%) JavaScript
4 224 (15.92%) Python
5 206 (14.64%) C#
6 136 (9.67%) TypeScript
7 66 (4.69%) C++
8 45 (3.20%) C
9 43 (3.06%) Ada
9 43 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.06%) PHP
11 26 (1.85%) Rust
12 20 (1.42%) Bash
12 20 (1.42%) Go
13 16 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 14 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.92%) Scala
16 10 (0.71%) Fortran
17 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 508 (36.11%) Degree
2 293 (20.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 87 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 50 (3.55%) Master's Degree
5 45 (3.20%) Security Cleared
6 36 (2.56%) Chartered Engineer
7 34 (2.42%) SC Cleared
8 21 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 20 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.28%) PhD
11 17 (1.21%) ISTQB
12 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.78%) CISSP
14 10 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.64%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.43%) CCSP
16 6 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.36%) AWS Certification
17 5 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (20.26%) QA
2 108 (7.68%) Accessibility
3 58 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (3.20%) GDPR
4 45 (3.20%) NIST
5 36 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 26 (1.85%) NCSC
7 18 (1.28%) SOC 2
8 17 (1.21%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.85%) PMO
10 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.43%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.21%) COBIT
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) GRC
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) PMBOK
12 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 324 (23.03%) Docker
2 13 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.36%) Apache Flume
5 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 4 (0.28%) vSphere
6 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.14%) KVM
7 2 (0.14%) Xen
8 1 (0.071%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 317 (22.53%) Kubernetes
2 58 (4.12%) Terraform
3 27 (1.92%) Ansible
4 14 (1.00%) Grafana
5 13 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.36%) HP Fortify
7 5 (0.36%) Oozie
7 5 (0.36%) Puppet
8 3 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.14%) CFEngine
9 2 (0.14%) Kibana
10 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.071%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 201 (14.29%) Solace
2 156 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 74 (5.26%) Oracle
4 72 (5.12%) Siemens
5 39 (2.77%) Google
6 26 (1.85%) IBM
7 22 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.21%) SAP
9 13 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.85%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.78%) OpenLink
12 10 (0.71%) Databricks
12 10 (0.71%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.50%) Sybase
14 6 (0.43%) Alibaba
14 6 (0.43%) Intel
14 6 (0.43%) Splunk
14 6 (0.43%) TIBCO
15 5 (0.36%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.36%) Tanium