SDLC Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 81 101
Rank change year-on-year -73 +20 -37
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 110 187 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.83% 3.35% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 3.92% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 76 91 167
10th Percentile £41,500 £38,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £81,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,769 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.23% +2.80%

All Process & 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 9,214 4,776 10,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.91% 85.68% 79.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6,541 2,831 7,056
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SDLC
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SDLC

SDLC
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the Midlands

SDLC
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 11 July 2026. 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 -42 73 £58,750 +2.17% 25
East Midlands -68 37 £60,000 -4.00% 22
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (3.64%) Confluence
1 4 (3.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.91%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.00%) Azure
2 17 (15.45%) AWS
3 12 (10.91%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.09%) Serverless
5 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.18%) SaaS
6 6 (5.45%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.64%) BrowserStack
7 4 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.73%) Siteimprove
8 3 (2.73%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.82%) OCI
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle CX
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.91%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.91%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) Network Security
2 1 (0.91%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.91%) FTP
2 1 (0.91%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) RTP
2 1 (0.91%) RTSP
2 1 (0.91%) SCTP
2 1 (0.91%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.91%) SS7
2 1 (0.91%) VoIP
2 1 (0.91%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.09%) Power BI
4 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.82%) Db2
4 2 (1.82%) Easytrieve
4 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.82%) Redis
4 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.91%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) JIRA
2 10 (9.09%) Snyk
3 8 (7.27%) Selenium
4 7 (6.36%) Cucumber
4 7 (6.36%) Gatling
4 7 (6.36%) Zephyr
5 6 (5.45%) Git
6 4 (3.64%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.64%) Postman
6 4 (3.64%) TestRail
7 3 (2.73%) Burp Suite
7 3 (2.73%) GitLab
7 3 (2.73%) HP UFT
7 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.73%) JMeter
7 3 (2.73%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.73%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.73%) Toad
8 2 (1.82%) Maven
General
1 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 14 (12.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (9.09%) Retail
5 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.55%) Law
7 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.91%) Automotive
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (30.00%) Developer
2 32 (29.09%) Senior
3 21 (19.09%) Software Engineer
4 14 (12.73%) Architect
4 14 (12.73%) Lead
5 13 (11.82%) Security Architect
6 11 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
6 11 (10.00%) Cloud Security Architect
6 11 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 10 (9.09%) Senior Architect
7 10 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 10 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
8 9 (8.18%) C# Developer
9 8 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Analyst
11 5 (4.55%) PLC Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) PLC Software Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Product Owner
11 5 (4.55%) QA Analyst
11 5 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (23.64%) .NET
2 19 (17.27%) REST
3 14 (12.73%) React
4 13 (11.82%) Playwright
5 7 (6.36%) XML
6 6 (5.45%) Spring
6 6 (5.45%) WinForms
7 4 (3.64%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.64%) EDI
7 4 (3.64%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.73%) HTML
8 3 (2.73%) Node.js
8 3 (2.73%) React Native
8 3 (2.73%) WPF
9 2 (1.82%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (1.82%) ISPF
9 2 (1.82%) JSON
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.64%) AS400
4 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.64%) iSeries
4 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.82%) IoT
6 2 (1.82%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Kali Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Windows
3 2 (1.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (42.73%) Agile
2 37 (33.64%) CI/CD
3 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 24 (21.82%) AI
6 20 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (17.27%) Software Testing
7 19 (17.27%) Test Automation
8 18 (16.36%) Mentoring
8 18 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (15.45%) Security Testing
10 16 (14.55%) Validation
11 14 (12.73%) Cloud Security
12 13 (11.82%) Application Security
12 13 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (11.82%) Scrum
12 13 (11.82%) Security Architecture
13 12 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (10.91%) Collaborative Culture
13 12 (10.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.45%) C#
2 26 (23.64%) SQL
3 16 (14.55%) Java
4 12 (10.91%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.18%) Python
6 8 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.45%) Delphi
8 4 (3.64%) C++
8 4 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.64%) RPG
8 4 (3.64%) RPG IV
8 4 (3.64%) RPG/400
9 2 (1.82%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.82%) Bash
9 2 (1.82%) COBOL
9 2 (1.82%) JCL
9 2 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.91%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 10 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.82%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.82%) QA
2 12 (10.91%) GRC
3 10 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.73%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.82%) NIST
6 1 (0.91%) GxP
6 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (4.55%) Docker
3 2 (1.82%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) Grafana
2 3 (2.73%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.73%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (11.82%) Oracle
2 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 10 (9.09%) Tenable
4 6 (5.45%) IBM
5 3 (2.73%) HP
5 3 (2.73%) Infor
5 3 (2.73%) Veracode
6 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.91%) Databricks
7 1 (0.91%) Google
7 1 (0.91%) Okta
7 1 (0.91%) SAP