SDLC Jobs in Glasgow

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 6 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 +54 -2
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 171 1,323 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.98% 46.37% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.53% 49.37% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7 33 46
10th Percentile £67,000 £45,850 £37,733
25th Percentile £67,500 £52,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £80,000 £67,000
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +19.23% +6.91% +1.33%

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 697 2,680 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 85.52% 93.94% 97.87%
Number of salaries quoted 289 702 632
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Glasgow

SDLC
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Glasgow

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 21 (12.28%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.26%) Apache
3 8 (4.68%) Camunda
3 8 (4.68%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (2.34%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) SAP CO
1 4 (2.34%) SAP FI
1 4 (2.34%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (42.69%) AWS
2 14 (8.19%) Azure
3 10 (5.85%) Amazon S3
4 9 (5.26%) GCP
5 7 (4.09%) GitHub
5 7 (4.09%) npm
5 7 (4.09%) Yarn
6 6 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.51%) Serverless
7 5 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.92%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.34%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.75%) Dagster
9 3 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.75%) Prefect
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) Internet
1 1 (0.58%) Wireless
1 1 (0.58%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.87%) NoSQL
2 21 (12.28%) Big Data
3 17 (9.94%) Apache Cassandra
3 17 (9.94%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.43%) MongoDB
5 9 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (5.26%) Apache Hive
5 9 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
5 9 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 8 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.68%) Hadoop
6 8 (4.68%) KDB
6 8 (4.68%) Kdb+
7 7 (4.09%) Oracle Database
8 6 (3.51%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.92%) HBase
9 5 (2.92%) Parquet
9 5 (2.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (11.11%) JUnit
2 11 (6.43%) Maven
3 10 (5.85%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.68%) webpack
5 7 (4.09%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.09%) Vite
6 6 (3.51%) Git
6 6 (3.51%) JIRA
7 5 (2.92%) Gradle
8 4 (2.34%) Subversion
9 2 (1.17%) Selenium
10 1 (0.58%) Ant
10 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.58%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.58%) GitLab
10 1 (0.58%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.58%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.58%) WebDriver
General
1 162 (94.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 159 (92.98%) Finance
3 158 (92.40%) Law
4 80 (46.78%) Banking
5 70 (40.94%) Marketing
6 22 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (9.94%) Legal
8 16 (9.36%) Social Skills
9 12 (7.02%) Investment Banking
10 8 (4.68%) Private Banking
11 4 (2.34%) Publishing
12 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.58%) Front Office
12 1 (0.58%) Games
12 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.58%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 158 (92.40%) Software Engineer
2 96 (56.14%) Java Engineer
2 96 (56.14%) Java Software Engineer
3 45 (26.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 44 (25.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 37 (21.64%) Lead
5 37 (21.64%) Lead Software Engineer
6 24 (14.04%) Lead Java Engineer
6 24 (14.04%) Python Engineer
6 24 (14.04%) Python Software Engineer
7 19 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
8 18 (10.53%) Senior
9 14 (8.19%) Developer
9 14 (8.19%) Java Developer
10 13 (7.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (5.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (5.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 9 (5.26%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (50.88%) Spring
2 57 (33.33%) React
3 56 (32.75%) Kafka
4 44 (25.73%) Spring Boot
5 26 (15.20%) AngularJS
6 22 (12.87%) REST
7 21 (12.28%) RESTful
8 14 (8.19%) Web Services
9 13 (7.60%) CSS
10 10 (5.85%) Hibernate
10 10 (5.85%) JPA
10 10 (5.85%) PySpark
11 9 (5.26%) HTML
11 9 (5.26%) Pandas
12 8 (4.68%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (4.68%) JDBC
12 8 (4.68%) OpenAPI
12 8 (4.68%) Swagger
12 8 (4.68%) WSDL
13 7 (4.09%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 75 (43.86%) Algorithms
2 41 (23.98%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.02%) Public Cloud
4 11 (6.43%) Reference Data
5 8 (4.68%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.34%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.34%) Derivative
7 4 (2.34%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.34%) Equities
7 4 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.17%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.58%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.58%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.51%) Unix
2 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (95.91%) Agile
2 160 (93.57%) Software Engineering
3 144 (84.21%) Operational Stability
4 135 (78.95%) CI/CD
5 103 (60.23%) Artificial Intelligence
5 103 (60.23%) Machine Learning
6 97 (56.73%) Community of Practice
7 78 (45.61%) Visualisation
8 66 (38.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (29.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 50 (29.24%) Decision-Making
11 37 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (14.04%) Architectural Design
12 24 (14.04%) Information Architecture
13 22 (12.87%) Risk Management
14 18 (10.53%) TDD
15 17 (9.94%) Continuous Delivery
16 16 (9.36%) Microservices
17 14 (8.19%) Analytics
17 14 (8.19%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 131 (76.61%) Java
2 51 (29.82%) SQL
3 49 (28.65%) Python
4 27 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.28%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.26%) C#
7 8 (4.68%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.51%) Go
9 4 (2.34%) Scala
9 4 (2.34%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.17%) C
11 1 (0.58%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
1 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
1 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.34%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.34%) PMO
2 1 (0.58%) GRC
2 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Docker
1 5 (2.92%) HDFS
2 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (23.98%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.53%) Terraform
3 13 (7.60%) Grafana
4 4 (2.34%) Ansible
4 4 (2.34%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (2.34%) Netcool
4 4 (2.34%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (2.34%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 37 (21.64%) Oracle
2 21 (12.28%) Splunk
3 20 (11.70%) Dynatrace
4 14 (8.19%) Databricks
5 8 (4.68%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.68%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.51%) Facebook
6 6 (3.51%) Google
7 5 (2.92%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.92%) IBM
8 4 (2.34%) SAP
9 3 (1.75%) Murex
10 2 (1.17%) Sybase
11 1 (0.58%) Curam
11 1 (0.58%) Solace