SDLC Jobs in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 84 50
Rank change year-on-year +15 -34 -1
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 147 116 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.18% 3.87% 5.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 4.01% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 44 91 217
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,927 £40,736
25th Percentile £49,688 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,125 £75,693 £78,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,783 £60,800 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -6.46% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,046 2,891 4,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.50% 96.56% 93.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,887 2,728
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £32,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +44 95 £72,500 +20.83% 14
Edinburgh +7 37 £57,500 -18.53% 3
Fife -16 5 £50,000 -9.09%
Stirling -9 2 £48,750 -
Falkirk -1 1 £50,000 -
Renfrewshire -5 1 £50,000 +22.39%
Aberdeen -10 1 £65,000 +23.81%
West Lothian -37 1 £60,000 -
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 11 (7.48%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.40%) FileNet
2 5 (3.40%) IIS
3 4 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.72%) WildFly
4 3 (2.04%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.36%) Apache
5 2 (1.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.68%) CICS
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.68%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Trello
2 2 (1.36%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.36%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 48 (32.65%) AWS
2 21 (14.29%) Azure
3 13 (8.84%) GCP
4 7 (4.76%) SaaS
5 6 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.72%) BlazeMeter
6 4 (2.72%) Datadog
6 4 (2.72%) GitHub
6 4 (2.72%) Serverless
7 3 (2.04%) Figma
7 3 (2.04%) Kong
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.36%) ClickUp
8 2 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.36%) Google Play
8 2 (1.36%) Slack
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.12%) Big Data
3 7 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.40%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.04%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.36%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.36%) HBase
6 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.36%) MySQL
6 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.36%) Tableau
7 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) DB2
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (8.84%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.80%) JMeter
3 9 (6.12%) Selenium
4 7 (4.76%) Git
4 7 (4.76%) Maven
5 6 (4.08%) JIRA
6 5 (3.40%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.40%) JUnit
7 3 (2.04%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.04%) GoCD
8 2 (1.36%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.36%) GitLab
8 2 (1.36%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.36%) Mockito
8 2 (1.36%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.68%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.68%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 93 (63.27%) Finance
2 87 (59.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 72 (48.98%) Law
4 43 (29.25%) Marketing
5 26 (17.69%) Social Skills
6 16 (10.88%) Legal
7 14 (9.52%) Banking
8 12 (8.16%) Financial Institution
9 9 (6.12%) Investment Banking
10 7 (4.76%) Public Sector
11 6 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (3.40%) Games
12 5 (3.40%) Tech for Good
13 3 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (2.04%) Retail Banking
14 2 (1.36%) Front Office
14 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.36%) Private Banking
14 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (51.70%) Software Engineer
2 33 (22.45%) Lead
3 29 (19.73%) Java Engineer
3 29 (19.73%) Java Software Engineer
4 26 (17.69%) Developer
5 24 (16.33%) Senior
6 23 (15.65%) Lead Software Engineer
7 14 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (8.84%) Python Engineer
8 13 (8.84%) Python Software Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Lead Java Engineer
10 10 (6.80%) Software Developer
11 9 (6.12%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.44%) Big Data Engineer
12 8 (5.44%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 7 (4.76%) Architect
13 7 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.05%) Spring
2 23 (15.65%) React
3 19 (12.93%) Spring Boot
4 18 (12.24%) .NET
4 18 (12.24%) Kafka
5 13 (8.84%) CSS
5 13 (8.84%) HTML
6 12 (8.16%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.48%) Node.js
8 9 (6.12%) REST
8 9 (6.12%) RESTful
9 7 (4.76%) PySpark
9 7 (4.76%) Spring Integration
9 7 (4.76%) Web Services
10 6 (4.08%) GraphQL
10 6 (4.08%) HTML5
10 6 (4.08%) J2EE
11 5 (3.40%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.40%) SOAP
12 4 (2.72%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.01%) Algorithms
1 25 (17.01%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.08%) Credit Risk
3 6 (4.08%) Market Risk
4 5 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.68%) FMCG
7 1 (0.68%) IPTV
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.68%) PCIe
7 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.44%) Linux
2 7 (4.76%) Unix
3 2 (1.36%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (68.71%) Agile
2 96 (65.31%) Software Engineering
3 85 (57.82%) CI/CD
4 63 (42.86%) Operational Stability
5 50 (34.01%) Machine Learning
6 49 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 39 (26.53%) Community of Practice
8 36 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (19.05%) Microservices
10 26 (17.69%) Visualisation
11 24 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (15.65%) Computer Science
13 20 (13.61%) Decision-Making
13 20 (13.61%) DevOps
13 20 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (13.61%) Risk Management
14 17 (11.56%) Mentoring
15 16 (10.88%) TDD
15 16 (10.88%) Test Automation
16 13 (8.84%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.58%) Java
2 44 (29.93%) SQL
3 34 (23.13%) Python
4 19 (12.93%) C#
5 18 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.76%) Scala
8 6 (4.08%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.72%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.04%) Groovy
12 2 (1.36%) Go
13 1 (0.68%) Bash
13 1 (0.68%) COBOL
13 1 (0.68%) JCL
13 1 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (10.20%) Degree
2 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.36%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 11 (7.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (1.36%) HDFS
3 1 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 27 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.12%) Terraform
3 4 (2.72%) Ansible
3 4 (2.72%) Grafana
3 4 (2.72%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.04%) Fortio
4 3 (2.04%) Istio
4 3 (2.04%) Kiali
4 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.04%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 15 (10.20%) Oracle
2 6 (4.08%) Databricks
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.40%) Splunk
4 4 (2.72%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.72%) Google
4 4 (2.72%) Sybase
5 3 (2.04%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.36%) Adobe
6 2 (1.36%) IBM
6 2 (1.36%) Informatica
7 1 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.68%) CyberTech
7 1 (0.68%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.68%) TOWER Software