SDLC Jobs in Fife

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Fife 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +15
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 6 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Fife 5.41% 4.21% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 5.88% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £56,250
25th Percentile - - £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,700 £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +71.40% -31.03% +31.82%
75th Percentile - - £81,875
90th Percentile - - £86,750
Scotland median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +11.54% +6.91% +1.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Fife

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 Fife.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 99 68 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Fife 89.19% 71.58% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37 44 25
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,475 £37,750
25th Percentile - £33,750 £38,754
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,820 - £64,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Fife

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Fife

SDLC
Salary Trend in Fife

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Fife

SDLC
Job Locations in Fife

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Fife region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Inverkeithing - 4 £85,700 - 1
SDLC
Scotland

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Fife 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Software Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) JPA
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Redux
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Open Source
2 4 (66.67%) UML
2 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (66.67%) Chartered Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Solace