SDLC Jobs in Scotland

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 29 45
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 -11
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,223 396 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.11% 8.36% 5.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 35.65% 8.87% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 100 218 218
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,514 £53,750 £46,212
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,634 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +12.72% +22.98%
75th Percentile £80,500 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £95,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +28 2,112 £65,000 +13.04% 22
Edinburgh -20 86 £72,500 +4.40% 17
Aberdeen -4 9 £47,500 -22.00% 3
Dundee -7 8 £50,000 -31.03% 1
Aberdeenshire +8 3 £50,000 -9.09% 2
West Lothian -3 2 £52,500 -12.50%
Stirling - 2 £55,000 - 1
Falkirk - 2 £55,000 - 2
Lanarkshire -9 1 - - 8
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 534 (24.02%) Apache Spark
2 117 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (4.77%) Apache
4 96 (4.32%) FileNet
5 21 (0.94%) GemFire
6 20 (0.90%) Camunda
7 17 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
8 12 (0.54%) Confluence
9 11 (0.49%) CICS
10 9 (0.40%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.045%) IIS
13 1 (0.045%) Tuxedo
13 1 (0.045%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (1.44%) UserZoom
2 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.045%) Maximo
2 1 (0.045%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,103 (49.62%) AWS
2 144 (6.48%) Azure
3 103 (4.63%) GCP
4 96 (4.32%) Amazon S3
5 90 (4.05%) Datadog
6 78 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
8 56 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
9 54 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
11 51 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
11 51 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (2.29%) Serverless
12 50 (2.25%) GitHub
13 34 (1.53%) Figma
14 32 (1.44%) BlazeMeter
14 32 (1.44%) SurveyMonkey
15 24 (1.08%) Google Play
16 21 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.69%) Kerberos
2 18 (0.81%) DSL
3 8 (0.36%) BGP
3 8 (0.36%) DNS
3 8 (0.36%) HTTP
3 8 (0.36%) MQTT
3 8 (0.36%) SSL
3 8 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.22%) Firewall
5 4 (0.18%) Network Security
5 4 (0.18%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.090%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 652 (29.33%) NoSQL
2 453 (20.38%) Big Data
3 189 (8.50%) Hadoop
4 131 (5.89%) Apache Hive
5 128 (5.76%) Elasticsearch
6 121 (5.44%) Relational Database
7 118 (5.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 102 (4.59%) HBase
9 78 (3.51%) MongoDB
10 65 (2.92%) Metadata
11 61 (2.74%) Data Lake
12 51 (2.29%) Electronic Patient Records
13 38 (1.71%) CockroachDB
14 37 (1.66%) Qlik Sense
15 29 (1.30%) DB2
15 29 (1.30%) MySQL
16 24 (1.08%) RDBMS
17 21 (0.94%) Hazelcast
17 21 (0.94%) Looker
18 18 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 288 (12.96%) Jenkins
2 199 (8.95%) JUnit
3 195 (8.77%) Git
4 104 (4.68%) Jasmine
5 86 (3.87%) Bitbucket Server
6 71 (3.19%) Cypress.io
7 66 (2.97%) Maven
8 65 (2.92%) Artifactory
8 65 (2.92%) Bitbucket
8 65 (2.92%) Selenium
9 60 (2.70%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (2.70%) Protractor
9 60 (2.70%) WebDriver
10 48 (2.16%) Mockito
11 30 (1.35%) Gradle
12 27 (1.21%) JMeter
13 26 (1.17%) JIRA
14 24 (1.08%) Android Studio
15 21 (0.94%) Jaeger
16 20 (0.90%) CircleCI
General
1 2,114 (95.10%) Finance
2 2,075 (93.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,061 (92.71%) Law
4 1,093 (49.17%) Marketing
5 617 (27.76%) Legal
6 381 (17.14%) Banking
7 300 (13.50%) Investment Banking
8 242 (10.89%) Financial Institution
9 206 (9.27%) Social Skills
10 179 (8.05%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (2.56%) Private Banking
12 41 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
13 36 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.12%) Games
15 22 (0.99%) Prime Brokerage
16 19 (0.85%) Front Office
17 15 (0.67%) Publishing
18 12 (0.54%) Manufacturing
19 9 (0.40%) Aviation
19 9 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1,855 (83.45%) Software Engineer
2 698 (31.40%) Java Engineer
2 698 (31.40%) Java Software Engineer
3 651 (29.28%) Lead
4 618 (27.80%) Lead Software Engineer
5 347 (15.61%) Big Data Engineer
5 347 (15.61%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 327 (14.71%) Python Engineer
6 327 (14.71%) Python Software Engineer
7 305 (13.72%) Full Stack Engineer
7 305 (13.72%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 296 (13.32%) AWS Engineer
8 296 (13.32%) AWS Software Engineer
9 242 (10.89%) Lead Java Engineer
10 230 (10.35%) Senior
11 228 (10.26%) Scala Engineer
11 228 (10.26%) Scala Software Engineer
12 196 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
13 195 (8.77%) Data Engineer
14 166 (7.47%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (25.19%) Spring
2 473 (21.28%) React
3 379 (17.05%) AngularJS
4 306 (13.77%) Kafka
5 282 (12.69%) Spring Boot
6 245 (11.02%) J2EE
7 236 (10.62%) HTML
8 206 (9.27%) JSON
9 204 (9.18%) CSS
10 193 (8.68%) Hibernate
11 189 (8.50%) Node.js
12 184 (8.28%) RESTful
13 172 (7.74%) PySpark
14 170 (7.65%) JMS
15 162 (7.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 145 (6.52%) Web Services
17 138 (6.21%) jQuery
18 123 (5.53%) GraphQL
19 110 (4.95%) XML
20 109 (4.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 726 (32.66%) Algorithms
2 675 (30.36%) Cloud Native
3 229 (10.30%) Public Cloud
4 153 (6.88%) Onboarding
5 127 (5.71%) Management Information System
6 123 (5.53%) Reference Data
7 92 (4.14%) Data Structures
8 84 (3.78%) Market Risk
9 65 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
10 63 (2.83%) Distributed Applications
11 53 (2.38%) Product Ownership
12 21 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (0.94%) Replication
13 20 (0.90%) Credit Risk
14 19 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (0.67%) Private Cloud
16 13 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (0.49%) Mainframe
17 11 (0.49%) VSAM
18 10 (0.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 129 (5.80%) Unix
2 112 (5.04%) Linux
3 24 (1.08%) Android
4 8 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.18%) Mac OS X
5 4 (0.18%) Windows
6 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,127 (95.68%) Agile
2 2,077 (93.43%) Software Engineering
3 1,817 (81.74%) CI/CD
4 1,725 (77.60%) Operational Stability
5 1,234 (55.51%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,217 (54.75%) Machine Learning
7 1,208 (54.34%) Community of Practice
8 766 (34.46%) Visualisation
9 726 (32.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 637 (28.65%) Risk Management
11 465 (20.92%) Microservices
12 457 (20.56%) Continuous Delivery
12 457 (20.56%) Decision-Making
13 377 (16.96%) Architectural Design
13 377 (16.96%) Information Architecture
14 349 (15.70%) Full Stack Development
15 316 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
16 279 (12.55%) Computer Science
17 241 (10.84%) Performance Tuning
18 238 (10.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,450 (65.23%) Java
2 998 (44.89%) SQL
3 829 (37.29%) Python
4 319 (14.35%) Scala
5 299 (13.45%) JavaScript
6 208 (9.36%) TypeScript
7 149 (6.70%) PL/SQL
8 80 (3.60%) Go
9 65 (2.92%) Prolog
9 65 (2.92%) SPARQL
10 51 (2.29%) C#
11 37 (1.66%) Groovy
12 26 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.90%) Ruby
15 11 (0.49%) COBOL
15 11 (0.49%) JCL
16 7 (0.31%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.27%) C
17 6 (0.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 98 (4.41%) Degree
2 48 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (1.66%) Master's Degree
4 12 (0.54%) Azure Certification
5 8 (0.36%) AWS Certification
5 8 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (0.36%) CISSP
5 8 (0.36%) SC Cleared
5 8 (0.36%) Security Cleared
6 6 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (0.27%) CISM
7 5 (0.22%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.22%) PMP
8 4 (0.18%) CCNA
8 4 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.18%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.045%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.045%) CBAP
9 1 (0.045%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (2.74%) SLA
2 51 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 32 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 20 (0.90%) PMO
6 16 (0.72%) QA
7 8 (0.36%) SEPA
8 6 (0.27%) NIST
9 1 (0.045%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 102 (4.59%) HDFS
2 65 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 49 (2.20%) Docker
4 11 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
5 10 (0.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.045%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 343 (15.43%) Kubernetes
2 213 (9.58%) Terraform
3 135 (6.07%) Grafana
4 61 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.94%) HAProxy
5 21 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (0.94%) Kibana
5 21 (0.94%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.31%) Graphite
7 6 (0.27%) Ansible
8 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.18%) vRealize
8 4 (0.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.090%) Istio
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 352 (15.83%) Oracle
2 231 (10.39%) Databricks
3 139 (6.25%) Splunk
4 131 (5.89%) Dynatrace
5 87 (3.91%) Informatica
6 72 (3.24%) Cloudera
7 58 (2.61%) Google
8 55 (2.47%) Alteryx
9 32 (1.44%) Qualtrics
10 27 (1.21%) Atlassian
11 22 (0.99%) Microsoft
12 20 (0.90%) Pega
13 18 (0.81%) Cognos
13 18 (0.81%) Sybase
14 9 (0.40%) TOWER Software
15 8 (0.36%) NVIDIA
15 8 (0.36%) SAP
15 8 (0.36%) Sparx
16 5 (0.22%) IBM
17 4 (0.18%) Dell