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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 68 47
Rank change year-on-year +61 -21 -2
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 1,500 165 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.33% 4.35% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.98% 4.53% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 83 144 253
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,227
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% +1.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £89,852 £79,850
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.72% +4.17%

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 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +66 1,407 £65,000 +13.04% 9
Edinburgh +17 71 £78,500 +7.96% 3
Aberdeen -11 6 £47,500 -21.36%
Stirling -2 4 £50,000 +5.26%
Fife -5 4 £50,000 -31.03%
West Lothian -6 3 £52,500 -10.64% 1
Falkirk - 3 £50,000 -
Aberdeenshire -5 2 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Dundee -4 1 - -
Lanarkshire -10 1 - - 5
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
1 302 (20.13%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.53%) FileNet
3 70 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
4 57 (3.80%) Apache
5 21 (1.40%) GemFire
6 17 (1.13%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (0.73%) CICS
8 10 (0.67%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.33%) Confluence
9 5 (0.33%) IIS
10 4 (0.27%) WildFly
11 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.067%) Tuxedo
12 1 (0.067%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.47%) UserZoom
2 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
6 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.067%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.067%) Maximo
2 1 (0.067%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 703 (46.87%) AWS
2 110 (7.33%) Azure
3 98 (6.53%) Amazon S3
4 91 (6.07%) Datadog
5 68 (4.53%) GCP
6 52 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 48 (3.20%) GitHub
8 40 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
10 33 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
11 32 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (2.13%) Serverless
12 29 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (1.93%) Amazon EMR
12 29 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (1.80%) BlazeMeter
14 25 (1.67%) Google Play
15 11 (0.73%) Figma
16 9 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
17 8 (0.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.07%) Kerberos
2 8 (0.53%) BGP
2 8 (0.53%) DNS
2 8 (0.53%) SSL
2 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.20%) Firewall
3 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.067%) HTTP
4 1 (0.067%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (29.53%) NoSQL
2 256 (17.07%) Big Data
3 120 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 107 (7.13%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (6.60%) Hadoop
6 74 (4.93%) Apache Hive
7 63 (4.20%) Relational Database
8 60 (4.00%) HBase
9 44 (2.93%) Metadata
10 40 (2.67%) Data Lake
11 38 (2.53%) CockroachDB
12 35 (2.33%) Qlik Sense
13 29 (1.93%) Electronic Patient Records
14 23 (1.53%) MongoDB
15 21 (1.40%) Hazelcast
15 21 (1.40%) RDBMS
16 20 (1.33%) MySQL
17 17 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (0.93%) Impala
18 14 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 188 (12.53%) JUnit
2 181 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 127 (8.47%) Git
4 105 (7.00%) Jasmine
5 69 (4.60%) Cypress.io
6 67 (4.47%) Selenium
7 60 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 60 (4.00%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (4.00%) Protractor
7 60 (4.00%) WebDriver
8 47 (3.13%) Mockito
9 44 (2.93%) Artifactory
9 44 (2.93%) Bitbucket
10 41 (2.73%) Maven
11 31 (2.07%) JMeter
12 25 (1.67%) Android Studio
13 21 (1.40%) Jaeger
13 21 (1.40%) JIRA
14 14 (0.93%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.73%) ChangeMan
General
1 1,395 (93.00%) Finance
2 1,369 (91.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,356 (90.40%) Law
4 634 (42.27%) Marketing
5 433 (28.87%) Legal
6 249 (16.60%) Banking
7 242 (16.13%) Investment Banking
8 149 (9.93%) Social Skills
9 129 (8.60%) Financial Institution
10 95 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.73%) Games
12 22 (1.47%) Prime Brokerage
13 20 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
15 15 (1.00%) Publishing
16 13 (0.87%) Front Office
17 8 (0.53%) Public Sector
17 8 (0.53%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.40%) Retail Banking
19 5 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,258 (83.87%) Software Engineer
2 475 (31.67%) Java Engineer
2 475 (31.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 436 (29.07%) Lead
4 401 (26.73%) Lead Software Engineer
5 221 (14.73%) Big Data Engineer
5 221 (14.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 213 (14.20%) Python Engineer
6 213 (14.20%) Python Software Engineer
7 191 (12.73%) Full Stack Engineer
7 191 (12.73%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 188 (12.53%) AWS Engineer
8 188 (12.53%) AWS Software Engineer
9 171 (11.40%) Lead Java Engineer
10 169 (11.27%) Senior
11 143 (9.53%) Data Engineer
12 135 (9.00%) Scala Engineer
12 135 (9.00%) Scala Software Engineer
12 135 (9.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 98 (6.53%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (26.27%) Spring
2 342 (22.80%) React
3 259 (17.27%) AngularJS
4 254 (16.93%) Kafka
5 217 (14.47%) J2EE
6 192 (12.80%) Hibernate
7 182 (12.13%) HTML
8 178 (11.87%) JSON
8 178 (11.87%) Node.js
9 165 (11.00%) Spring Boot
10 162 (10.80%) JMS
11 160 (10.67%) CSS
12 155 (10.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 132 (8.80%) jQuery
14 115 (7.67%) GraphQL
14 115 (7.67%) PySpark
15 109 (7.27%) RESTful
16 105 (7.00%) Web Services
17 100 (6.67%) Spring Integration
18 93 (6.20%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 509 (33.93%) Algorithms
2 491 (32.73%) Cloud Native
3 115 (7.67%) Onboarding
4 113 (7.53%) Public Cloud
5 80 (5.33%) Reference Data
6 79 (5.27%) Data Structures
6 79 (5.27%) Management Information System
7 61 (4.07%) Market Risk
8 46 (3.07%) Distributed Applications
9 44 (2.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 21 (1.40%) Credit Risk
10 21 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (1.40%) Replication
11 20 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.73%) Mainframe
12 11 (0.73%) VSAM
13 9 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.47%) Product Ownership
16 5 (0.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (6.13%) Unix
2 75 (5.00%) Linux
3 25 (1.67%) Android
4 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,401 (93.40%) Agile
2 1,384 (92.27%) Software Engineering
3 1,234 (82.27%) CI/CD
4 1,135 (75.67%) Operational Stability
5 879 (58.60%) Artificial Intelligence
6 862 (57.47%) Machine Learning
7 839 (55.93%) Community of Practice
8 524 (34.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 516 (34.40%) Visualisation
10 456 (30.40%) Risk Management
11 292 (19.47%) Microservices
12 287 (19.13%) Decision-Making
13 286 (19.07%) Continuous Delivery
14 251 (16.73%) Architectural Design
14 251 (16.73%) Information Architecture
15 222 (14.80%) Full Stack Development
16 211 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
17 210 (14.00%) Computer Science
18 161 (10.73%) TDD
19 151 (10.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 929 (61.93%) Java
2 646 (43.07%) SQL
3 485 (32.33%) Python
4 216 (14.40%) JavaScript
5 182 (12.13%) Scala
6 172 (11.47%) TypeScript
7 91 (6.07%) PL/SQL
8 48 (3.20%) Go
9 44 (2.93%) Prolog
9 44 (2.93%) SPARQL
10 40 (2.67%) C#
10 40 (2.67%) Groovy
11 28 (1.87%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.73%) COBOL
13 11 (0.73%) JCL
14 7 (0.47%) Bash
15 6 (0.40%) C
15 6 (0.40%) Embedded C
15 6 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (3.67%) Degree
2 43 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 14 (0.93%) Security Cleared
5 12 (0.80%) SC Cleared
6 11 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.47%) CISSP
9 6 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.40%) CISM
10 4 (0.27%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.27%) PMP
11 3 (0.20%) CCNA
11 3 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.20%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.067%) CBAP
12 1 (0.067%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.067%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.33%) Accessibility
2 15 (1.00%) QA
2 15 (1.00%) SLA
3 11 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (4.00%) HDFS
2 44 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.00%) Docker
4 11 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 255 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 156 (10.40%) Terraform
3 119 (7.93%) Grafana
4 63 (4.20%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.40%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.40%) Kibana
5 21 (1.40%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.47%) Graphite
7 6 (0.40%) Ansible
8 5 (0.33%) Istio
9 3 (0.20%) Fortio
9 3 (0.20%) Kiali
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 255 (17.00%) Oracle
2 147 (9.80%) Databricks
3 123 (8.20%) Splunk
4 115 (7.67%) Dynatrace
5 60 (4.00%) Informatica
6 53 (3.53%) Google
7 35 (2.33%) Alteryx
8 30 (2.00%) Cloudera
9 15 (1.00%) Microsoft
10 9 (0.60%) TOWER Software
11 8 (0.53%) Sparx
12 7 (0.47%) Qualtrics
13 4 (0.27%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (0.27%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.27%) Sybase
14 3 (0.20%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.20%) Cisco
15 2 (0.13%) IBM
16 1 (0.067%) Adobe
16 1 (0.067%) SAP