SDLC Jobs in the Midlands

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 102 67
Rank change year-on-year +47 -35 +14
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 294 307 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.24% 2.30% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 2.89% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 92 164 255
10th Percentile £38,550 £36,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +10.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,625 £81,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.80% -6.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,075 10,614 7,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.54% 79.58% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,911 7,009 4,371
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year - -11.93% +4.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
West Midlands +65 177 £57,500 +15.00% 95
East Midlands +15 117 £60,000 +16.50% 56
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 50 (17.01%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) Appian
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Magento
1 8 (2.72%) Shopify
2 5 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.68%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.68%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (28.91%) Azure
2 75 (25.51%) AWS
3 49 (16.67%) GCP
4 21 (7.14%) SaaS
5 8 (2.72%) BigCommerce
6 6 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.36%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.02%) Figma
10 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.68%) IaaS
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon Macie
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) Modbus
1 1 (0.34%) Wireless
1 1 (0.34%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.36%) Power BI
3 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.68%) MySQL
4 2 (0.68%) SAP BW
4 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.34%) Big Data
5 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.34%) DB2
5 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (24.83%) JIRA
2 67 (22.79%) GitLab
2 67 (22.79%) Selenium
3 63 (21.43%) Bitbucket
3 63 (21.43%) Cucumber
3 63 (21.43%) Maven
3 63 (21.43%) SonarQube
3 63 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.02%) Postman
4 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.68%) Git
5 2 (0.68%) JMeter
5 2 (0.68%) JUnit
5 2 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (0.68%) Mockito
6 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.34%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 92 (31.29%) Finance
2 74 (25.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (21.43%) Banking
4 37 (12.59%) Social Skills
5 25 (8.50%) Retail
6 16 (5.44%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (5.44%) Investment Banking
7 15 (5.10%) Law
8 13 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.70%) Police
9 5 (1.70%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.36%) Marketing
11 3 (1.02%) Automotive
11 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.68%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.34%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 69 (23.47%) Instrumentation Engineer
2 67 (22.79%) Software Engineer
3 47 (15.99%) Principal Engineer
4 35 (11.90%) Developer
5 24 (8.16%) Senior
6 21 (7.14%) Lead
7 11 (3.74%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.40%) Architect
8 10 (3.40%) C# Developer
8 10 (3.40%) Software Developer
9 9 (3.06%) Analyst
9 9 (3.06%) Lead Developer
9 9 (3.06%) Senior Developer
10 8 (2.72%) IT Manager
10 8 (2.72%) Java Developer
10 8 (2.72%) Lead Software Developer
10 8 (2.72%) SaaS Developer
11 6 (2.04%) C# Software Developer
11 6 (2.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (25.51%) HTML
2 68 (23.13%) JPA
3 67 (22.79%) CSS
4 65 (22.11%) React
4 65 (22.11%) Spring
5 63 (21.43%) Kafka
5 63 (21.43%) Redux
5 63 (21.43%) Spring Boot
6 47 (15.99%) Hibernate
7 23 (7.82%) REST
8 18 (6.12%) RESTful
9 17 (5.78%) HTML5
9 17 (5.78%) Jest
10 16 (5.44%) CSS3
10 16 (5.44%) Sass
11 15 (5.10%) .NET
12 5 (1.70%) ASP.NET
12 5 (1.70%) J2EE
12 5 (1.70%) Laravel
12 5 (1.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 73 (24.83%) Product Ownership
2 66 (22.45%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.06%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.72%) EPoS
5 4 (1.36%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.68%) NHS
7 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.34%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.34%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) SCADA
8 1 (0.34%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.40%) Linux
2 5 (1.70%) Rocky
3 4 (1.36%) Android
3 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (80.61%) Agile
2 195 (66.33%) Software Engineering
3 131 (44.56%) Waterfall
4 129 (43.88%) Software Testing
5 83 (28.23%) DevOps
6 81 (27.55%) CI/CD
7 77 (26.19%) Front End Development
8 73 (24.83%) Test Automation
9 71 (24.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (23.81%) Microservices
11 68 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 65 (22.11%) Containerisation
13 63 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
14 51 (17.35%) Clean Code
15 50 (17.01%) TDD
16 32 (10.88%) Mentoring
17 29 (9.86%) Strategic Thinking
18 27 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
19 24 (8.16%) User Experience
20 20 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 89 (30.27%) JavaScript
2 84 (28.57%) SQL
3 77 (26.19%) Java
4 24 (8.16%) C#
5 18 (6.12%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.72%) Delphi
7 6 (2.04%) PHP
7 6 (2.04%) Python
8 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.68%) Bash
9 2 (0.68%) Groovy
9 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 140 (47.62%) Degree
2 116 (39.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.68%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) CBAP
7 1 (0.34%) ISEB
7 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.34%) PMP
7 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (26.53%) QA
2 16 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.70%) GDPR
3 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.36%) COBIT
5 3 (1.02%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.68%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 64 (21.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Grafana
2 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 115 (39.12%) Siemens
2 63 (21.43%) Solace
3 21 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.70%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.70%) SAP
5 4 (1.36%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.36%) Oracle
6 3 (1.02%) Databricks
7 2 (0.68%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.34%) Pega
8 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Snow
8 1 (0.34%) Splunk
8 1 (0.34%) Sybase
8 1 (0.34%) VMware