SDLC Job Trends in Glasgow

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 62 47
Rank change year-on-year +54 -15 +20
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 168 18 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 20.19% 1.88% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.95% 2.18% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 20
10th Percentile £22,129 £46,250 £37,733
25th Percentile £57,000 £47,500 £43,183
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £79,750 £87,500 £75,500
Scotland median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £67,634
% change year-on-year +16.00% -7.59% +4.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 732 825 646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.98% 85.94% 96.56%
Number of salaries quoted 323 440 499
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,700 £28,900
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +0.48% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SDLC
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Glasgow over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Glasgow

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.36%) Apache
3 8 (4.76%) Camunda
3 8 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (2.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) SAP CO
1 4 (2.38%) SAP FI
1 4 (2.38%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.07%) AWS
2 13 (7.74%) Azure
3 10 (5.95%) Amazon S3
4 8 (4.76%) GCP
5 7 (4.17%) GitHub
5 7 (4.17%) npm
5 7 (4.17%) Yarn
6 6 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.57%) Serverless
7 5 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.38%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.79%) Dagster
9 3 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.79%) Prefect
10 2 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.50%) Big Data
2 18 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 16 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 14 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (5.36%) Apache Hive
5 9 (5.36%) Apache Iceberg
6 8 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 8 (4.76%) KDB
6 8 (4.76%) Kdb+
6 8 (4.76%) RDBMS
7 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.17%) Oracle Database
8 6 (3.57%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.98%) Apache Hudi
9 5 (2.98%) HBase
9 5 (2.98%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (8.33%) JUnit
2 10 (5.95%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.95%) Maven
3 8 (4.76%) webpack
4 7 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 7 (4.17%) Vite
5 6 (3.57%) Git
6 5 (2.98%) Gradle
6 5 (2.98%) JIRA
7 4 (2.38%) Subversion
8 1 (0.60%) Ant
8 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.60%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.60%) Protractor
8 1 (0.60%) Selenium
8 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 158 (94.05%) Finance
1 158 (94.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 158 (94.05%) Law
2 79 (47.02%) Banking
3 70 (41.67%) Marketing
4 21 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.12%) Legal
5 17 (10.12%) Social Skills
6 12 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.76%) Private Banking
8 4 (2.38%) Publishing
9 2 (1.19%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.19%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 157 (93.45%) Software Engineer
2 96 (57.14%) Java Engineer
2 96 (57.14%) Java Software Engineer
3 45 (26.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 44 (26.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 37 (22.02%) Lead
5 37 (22.02%) Lead Software Engineer
6 24 (14.29%) Lead Java Engineer
6 24 (14.29%) Python Engineer
6 24 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
7 19 (11.31%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (11.31%) AWS Software Engineer
8 18 (10.71%) Senior
9 13 (7.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Developer
10 9 (5.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.36%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.36%) Java Software Developer
10 9 (5.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (48.81%) Spring
2 54 (32.14%) Kafka
3 53 (31.55%) React
4 42 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 24 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 21 (12.50%) REST
6 21 (12.50%) RESTful
7 13 (7.74%) Web Services
8 10 (5.95%) PySpark
9 9 (5.36%) CSS
9 9 (5.36%) Hibernate
9 9 (5.36%) JPA
9 9 (5.36%) Pandas
10 8 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (4.76%) HTML
10 8 (4.76%) JDBC
10 8 (4.76%) OpenAPI
10 8 (4.76%) Swagger
10 8 (4.76%) WSDL
11 7 (4.17%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 73 (43.45%) Algorithms
2 41 (24.40%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 11 (6.55%) Reference Data
5 8 (4.76%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.38%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.38%) Derivative
7 4 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.38%) Equities
7 4 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.19%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.98%) Unix
2 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (95.24%) Agile
2 157 (93.45%) Software Engineering
3 141 (83.93%) Operational Stability
4 132 (78.57%) CI/CD
5 100 (59.52%) AI
5 100 (59.52%) Machine Learning
6 95 (56.55%) Community of Practice
7 76 (45.24%) Visualisation
8 63 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
10 48 (28.57%) Decision-Making
11 38 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (14.29%) Architectural Design
12 24 (14.29%) Information Architecture
13 22 (13.10%) Risk Management
14 17 (10.12%) TDD
15 15 (8.93%) Continuous Delivery
16 14 (8.33%) Analytics
17 13 (7.74%) ETL
17 13 (7.74%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 125 (74.40%) Java
2 49 (29.17%) Python
2 49 (29.17%) SQL
3 24 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 18 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.95%) C#
6 8 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.17%) Go
8 4 (2.38%) Scala
8 4 (2.38%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.60%) C
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
1 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.38%) PMO
2 2 (1.19%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (2.98%) HDFS
2 4 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (22.62%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.71%) Terraform
3 10 (5.95%) Grafana
4 4 (2.38%) Ansible
4 4 (2.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.38%) Netcool
4 4 (2.38%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (21.43%) Oracle
2 18 (10.71%) Splunk
3 17 (10.12%) Dynatrace
4 14 (8.33%) Databricks
5 9 (5.36%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.57%) Facebook
7 6 (3.57%) Google
8 5 (2.98%) Cloudera
9 4 (2.38%) IBM
9 4 (2.38%) SAP
10 3 (1.79%) Murex
11 1 (0.60%) Sybase