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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 6 38
Rank change year-on-year -10 +32 +13
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 50 2,133 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.52% 52.82% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.59% 54.89% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4 30 53
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £69,688 £76,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,375 £80,000 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year -5.77% -1.52% +10.00%

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 472 3,886 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.90% 96.24% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 233 853 632
10th Percentile £31,400 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £53,772 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% -2.23% +10.31%
75th Percentile £75,360 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%

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
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram 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 6 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.00%) Apache
3 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.00%) Camunda
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (4.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (4.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) AWS
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.00%) BlazeMeter
3 3 (6.00%) GCP
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.00%) GitHub
4 2 (4.00%) npm
4 2 (4.00%) Serverless
4 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.00%) Yarn
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.00%) Dagster
5 1 (2.00%) Datadog
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Wireless
1 1 (2.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (12.00%) Big Data
3 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (6.00%) DB2
5 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.00%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.00%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (4.00%) KDB
6 2 (4.00%) Kdb+
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.00%) Parquet
6 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) JUnit
2 3 (6.00%) Maven
3 2 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Vite
3 2 (4.00%) webpack
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.00%) Git
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) Gradle
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 44 (88.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 41 (82.00%) Finance
3 40 (80.00%) Law
4 21 (42.00%) Banking
5 17 (34.00%) Marketing
6 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
7 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (10.00%) Legal
8 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (4.00%) Private Banking
10 1 (2.00%) Front Office
10 1 (2.00%) Publishing
10 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (2.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 41 (82.00%) Software Engineer
2 22 (44.00%) Java Engineer
2 22 (44.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 10 (20.00%) Developer
4 10 (20.00%) Lead
4 10 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Lead Java Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Python Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Software Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (4.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (50.00%) Spring
2 17 (34.00%) Kafka
2 17 (34.00%) React
3 13 (26.00%) Spring Boot
4 8 (16.00%) AngularJS
5 7 (14.00%) CSS
5 7 (14.00%) REST
6 5 (10.00%) RESTful
6 5 (10.00%) Web Services
7 4 (8.00%) HTML
8 3 (6.00%) Hibernate
8 3 (6.00%) J2EE
8 3 (6.00%) JPA
8 3 (6.00%) SOAP
9 2 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (4.00%) IBM Integration Bus
9 2 (4.00%) Java EE
9 2 (4.00%) JDBC
9 2 (4.00%) WSDL
9 2 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.00%) Algorithms
2 11 (22.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.00%) Reference Data
5 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.00%) Derivative
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.00%) Equities
6 1 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (88.00%) Agile
2 43 (86.00%) Software Engineering
3 40 (80.00%) Operational Stability
4 37 (74.00%) CI/CD
5 28 (56.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 28 (56.00%) Machine Learning
6 27 (54.00%) Community of Practice
7 22 (44.00%) Visualisation
8 20 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (28.00%) Decision-Making
9 14 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.00%) Microservices
12 6 (12.00%) Architectural Design
12 6 (12.00%) Clean Code
12 6 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (12.00%) ETL
12 6 (12.00%) Information Architecture
12 6 (12.00%) Risk Management
13 5 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (76.00%) Java
2 15 (30.00%) Python
3 14 (28.00%) SQL
4 9 (18.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.00%) C#
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.00%) Assembly Language
8 1 (2.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) R
8 1 (2.00%) Scala
8 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.00%) Grafana
2 6 (12.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.00%) Netcool
3 1 (2.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 1 (2.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Oracle
2 8 (16.00%) Splunk
3 7 (14.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (8.00%) Databricks
5 2 (4.00%) Curam
5 2 (4.00%) IBM
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.00%) Sybase
6 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.00%) Facebook
6 1 (2.00%) Google
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.00%) Murex
6 1 (2.00%) Solace