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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 56 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -48 +25
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 5 15 465
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.73% 2.06% 38.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 2.24% 39.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 13
10th Percentile - £47,000 -
25th Percentile £22,129 £49,375 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £103,750 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £79,100 £64,750
Scotland median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £70,288
% change year-on-year -5.77% -7.52% +3.92%

All Process & 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 525 670 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 76.42% 92.03% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 326 307 465
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,650 £28,880
25th Percentile £31,063 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,625 £64,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,450 £77,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -7.89%

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

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Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Glasgow

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
General
1 2 (40.00%) Fire and Rescue
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft