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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 110 26
Rank change year-on-year +43 -84 +49
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 269 255 766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.96% 2.02% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 2.51% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 97 178 258
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,986 £37,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £72,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -6.31%

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 6,225 10,156 8,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.57% 80.56% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 7,358 4,443
10th Percentile £26,974 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,276
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 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

SDLC
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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +66 158 £57,500 - 81
East Midlands +29 111 £55,000 +10.00% 46
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 (18.59%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (1.49%) MS Visio
1 4 (1.49%) Trello
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Magento
1 6 (2.23%) Shopify
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (33.83%) Azure
2 73 (27.14%) AWS
3 49 (18.22%) GCP
4 16 (5.95%) SaaS
5 8 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.23%) BigCommerce
8 5 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.12%) Figma
10 2 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.74%) IaaS
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.49%) 3GPP
1 4 (1.49%) 5G
2 1 (0.37%) Modbus
2 1 (0.37%) Wireless
2 1 (0.37%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (26.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.49%) Power BI
3 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.37%) Big Data
4 1 (0.37%) DB2
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.37%) PowerCenter
4 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 77 (28.62%) JIRA
2 66 (24.54%) GitLab
3 64 (23.79%) Selenium
4 63 (23.42%) Bitbucket
4 63 (23.42%) Cucumber
4 63 (23.42%) Maven
4 63 (23.42%) SonarQube
4 63 (23.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (2.97%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.74%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.74%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (0.74%) Git
6 2 (0.74%) JMeter
6 2 (0.74%) JUnit
6 2 (0.74%) Mockito
6 2 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.37%) Toad
7 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 86 (31.97%) Finance
2 76 (28.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (23.42%) Banking
4 36 (13.38%) Social Skills
5 23 (8.55%) Retail
6 21 (7.81%) Law
7 16 (5.95%) Corporate Banking
7 16 (5.95%) Investment Banking
8 14 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.86%) Police
12 4 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.49%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.12%) Automotive
13 3 (1.12%) Marketing
14 2 (0.74%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (27.14%) Principal Engineer
2 67 (24.91%) Software Engineer
3 38 (14.13%) Developer
4 20 (7.43%) Analyst
5 19 (7.06%) Senior
6 17 (6.32%) Lead
7 15 (5.58%) Software Developer
8 12 (4.46%) C# Developer
9 9 (3.35%) Architect
9 9 (3.35%) Business Systems Analyst
9 9 (3.35%) Instrumentation Engineer
9 9 (3.35%) IT Manager
9 9 (3.35%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.35%) Systems Analyst
10 8 (2.97%) Java Developer
11 7 (2.60%) Lead Developer
11 7 (2.60%) SQL Analyst
12 6 (2.23%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.23%) Lead Software Developer
12 6 (2.23%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (27.14%) HTML
2 68 (25.28%) JPA
3 67 (24.91%) CSS
3 67 (24.91%) React
4 65 (24.16%) Spring
5 63 (23.42%) Kafka
5 63 (23.42%) Redux
5 63 (23.42%) Spring Boot
6 47 (17.47%) Hibernate
7 26 (9.67%) REST
8 17 (6.32%) Jest
8 17 (6.32%) RESTful
9 16 (5.95%) .NET
9 16 (5.95%) CSS3
9 16 (5.95%) HTML5
9 16 (5.95%) Sass
10 9 (3.35%) ASP.NET
11 8 (2.97%) Middleware
12 6 (2.23%) Laravel
13 5 (1.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 70 (26.02%) Product Ownership
2 65 (24.16%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.35%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.23%) EPoS
5 5 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.74%) NHS
9 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.37%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) SCADA
9 1 (0.37%) Smart Energy
9 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.46%) Linux
2 5 (1.86%) Android
2 5 (1.86%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.86%) Rocky
3 2 (0.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (72.49%) Agile
2 166 (61.71%) Software Engineering
3 92 (34.20%) Software Testing
3 92 (34.20%) Waterfall
4 83 (30.86%) DevOps
5 82 (30.48%) CI/CD
6 74 (27.51%) Front End Development
7 71 (26.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 71 (26.39%) Test Automation
8 70 (26.02%) Microservices
9 65 (24.16%) Containerisation
10 63 (23.42%) Performance Optimisation
11 62 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (20.07%) TDD
13 52 (19.33%) Clean Code
14 34 (12.64%) Mentoring
15 28 (10.41%) Strategic Thinking
16 24 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (8.92%) User Experience
17 23 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 93 (34.57%) SQL
2 88 (32.71%) JavaScript
3 76 (28.25%) Java
4 28 (10.41%) C#
5 18 (6.69%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.46%) Python
7 7 (2.60%) PHP
8 6 (2.23%) Delphi
9 4 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.74%) Ada
11 2 (0.74%) Bash
11 2 (0.74%) Rust
11 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.37%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (38.66%) Degree
2 84 (31.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.86%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.49%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CBAP
8 1 (0.37%) ISEB
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.37%) PMP
8 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (29.00%) QA
2 16 (5.95%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.86%) GDPR
5 4 (1.49%) COBIT
5 4 (1.49%) NCSC
6 3 (1.12%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 66 (24.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (23.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Grafana
2 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 81 (30.11%) Siemens
2 63 (23.42%) Solace
3 23 (8.55%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.97%) Oracle
5 7 (2.60%) SAP
6 5 (1.86%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.86%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.12%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.37%) Databricks
8 1 (0.37%) Informatica
8 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.37%) Snow
8 1 (0.37%) Sybase
8 1 (0.37%) VMware