SDLC Jobs in the UK excluding London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 36 43 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +6
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 3,832 3,928 3,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.47% 6.36% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.48% 6.65% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,093 1,598 2,079
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,145 59,105 66,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 95.64% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 30,311 41,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +22 2,223 £67,500 -0.20% 53
North of England -69 425 £57,500 - 105
South East -52 379 £57,500 - 87
South West -15 293 £57,500 +4.55% 51
North West -56 261 £60,000 +15.38% 65
Midlands -102 235 £57,500 +4.55% 61
East of England -49 146 £50,000 -13.04% 30
West Midlands -95 143 £57,500 - 34
Yorkshire -65 119 £50,000 -13.04% 29
East Midlands -66 94 £50,000 -9.09% 27
Wales +32 93 £50,000 +11.11% 17
North East +8 45 £60,000 +4.35% 12
Northern Ireland +37 40 £55,000 -4.35% 10
Isle of Man - 3 - -
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 541 (14.12%) Apache Spark
2 117 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (3.03%) Apache
4 96 (2.51%) FileNet
5 54 (1.41%) Camunda
6 41 (1.07%) WebLogic
7 36 (0.94%) nginx
8 31 (0.81%) Confluence
9 26 (0.68%) SharePoint
10 21 (0.55%) GemFire
11 17 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
12 11 (0.29%) CICS
13 8 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
15 6 (0.16%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.13%) OpenEdge
17 2 (0.052%) IBM Domino
17 2 (0.052%) IIS
18 1 (0.026%) SAS
18 1 (0.026%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 59 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.84%) UserZoom
4 23 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.16%) Simulink
8 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.078%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.052%) CA PPM
5 2 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.052%) SAP MII
5 2 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.026%) Maximo
6 1 (0.026%) Postilion
6 1 (0.026%) Primavera
6 1 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.026%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.026%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,401 (36.56%) AWS
2 537 (14.01%) Azure
3 149 (3.89%) GCP
4 133 (3.47%) Amazon S3
5 119 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
5 119 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (2.87%) SaaS
7 97 (2.53%) GitHub
8 92 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
9 90 (2.35%) Datadog
10 78 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
10 78 (2.04%) Serverless
11 73 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
12 71 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
13 65 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
15 54 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 53 (1.38%) Power Platform
17 48 (1.25%) IBM Cloud
18 41 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.14%) Kerberos
2 79 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 69 (1.80%) DNS
4 40 (1.04%) BGP
4 40 (1.04%) SSL
5 39 (1.02%) HTTP
6 29 (0.76%) DHCP
7 19 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.47%) DSL
9 16 (0.42%) Network Security
9 16 (0.42%) Wireless
10 14 (0.37%) Bluetooth
11 12 (0.31%) Firewall
12 10 (0.26%) MQTT
12 10 (0.26%) NGFW
12 10 (0.26%) VPN
13 8 (0.21%) Ethernet
13 8 (0.21%) Profibus
14 7 (0.18%) Broadband
14 7 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 677 (17.67%) NoSQL
2 462 (12.06%) Big Data
3 222 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 194 (5.06%) Hadoop
5 164 (4.28%) SQL Server
6 136 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
7 135 (3.52%) Apache Hive
8 124 (3.24%) MongoDB
9 118 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
10 102 (2.66%) HBase
11 100 (2.61%) MySQL
12 89 (2.32%) RDBMS
13 84 (2.19%) Oracle Database
14 80 (2.09%) Metadata
15 70 (1.83%) Data Lake
16 67 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
17 54 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
18 51 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
19 45 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
20 40 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 346 (9.03%) Jenkins
2 328 (8.56%) Git
3 215 (5.61%) JUnit
4 173 (4.51%) JIRA
5 104 (2.71%) Jasmine
6 86 (2.24%) Bitbucket Server
7 82 (2.14%) Selenium
8 80 (2.09%) Cypress.io
9 79 (2.06%) Maven
10 78 (2.04%) Bitbucket
11 67 (1.75%) Artifactory
12 61 (1.59%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.57%) Karma Test Runner
13 60 (1.57%) Protractor
14 50 (1.30%) Mockito
15 38 (0.99%) Postman
15 38 (0.99%) Visual Studio
16 34 (0.89%) JMeter
17 33 (0.86%) Gradle
18 28 (0.73%) GitLab
General
1 2,375 (61.98%) Finance
2 2,218 (57.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,101 (54.83%) Law
4 1,137 (29.67%) Marketing
5 651 (16.99%) Social Skills
6 647 (16.88%) Legal
7 448 (11.69%) Banking
8 319 (8.32%) Investment Banking
9 260 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
10 243 (6.34%) Financial Institution
11 188 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
12 81 (2.11%) Public Sector
13 72 (1.88%) Aerospace
14 63 (1.64%) Retail
15 62 (1.62%) Electronics
16 57 (1.49%) Private Banking
17 55 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
18 50 (1.30%) Manufacturing
19 35 (0.91%) Telecoms
20 33 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,075 (54.15%) Software Engineer
2 812 (21.19%) Lead
3 710 (18.53%) Java Engineer
4 699 (18.24%) Java Software Engineer
5 621 (16.21%) Lead Software Engineer
6 500 (13.05%) Developer
7 494 (12.89%) Senior
8 358 (9.34%) Full Stack Engineer
9 347 (9.06%) Big Data Engineer
9 347 (9.06%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 333 (8.69%) Python Engineer
11 327 (8.53%) Python Software Engineer
12 308 (8.04%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 301 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
14 298 (7.78%) AWS Software Engineer
15 267 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
16 253 (6.60%) Project Manager
17 244 (6.37%) Lead Java Engineer
18 228 (5.95%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (5.95%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 642 (16.75%) Spring
2 617 (16.10%) React
3 507 (13.23%) AngularJS
4 368 (9.60%) .NET
5 367 (9.58%) Spring Boot
6 361 (9.42%) HTML
7 335 (8.74%) Kafka
8 286 (7.46%) JSON
9 280 (7.31%) CSS
10 267 (6.97%) Node.js
11 252 (6.58%) RESTful
12 246 (6.42%) J2EE
13 211 (5.51%) Hibernate
14 196 (5.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 196 (5.11%) Web Services
15 191 (4.98%) REST
16 172 (4.49%) PySpark
17 170 (4.44%) JMS
18 159 (4.15%) jQuery
19 151 (3.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 772 (20.15%) Algorithms
2 741 (19.34%) Cloud Native
3 288 (7.52%) Public Cloud
4 192 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 182 (4.75%) Product Ownership
6 159 (4.15%) Onboarding
7 123 (3.21%) Reference Data
8 101 (2.64%) Data Structures
9 90 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 88 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
11 84 (2.19%) Market Risk
12 69 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
13 65 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
14 62 (1.62%) Mobile App
15 54 (1.41%) Blockchain
16 44 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 43 (1.12%) e-Learning
18 41 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
19 37 (0.97%) Cyberattack
20 35 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 278 (7.25%) Linux
2 141 (3.68%) Unix
3 61 (1.59%) Windows
4 44 (1.15%) Android
5 43 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.13%) ThreadX
10 4 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.10%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.078%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.052%) Solaris
12 2 (0.052%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.052%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.052%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.026%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,106 (81.05%) Agile
2 2,498 (65.19%) Software Engineering
3 2,051 (53.52%) CI/CD
4 1,739 (45.38%) Operational Stability
5 1,319 (34.42%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,256 (32.78%) Machine Learning
7 1,220 (31.84%) Community of Practice
8 892 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 790 (20.62%) Visualisation
10 685 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
11 665 (17.35%) Risk Management
12 576 (15.03%) Microservices
13 557 (14.54%) Full Stack Development
14 518 (13.52%) Decision-Making
15 481 (12.55%) Continuous Delivery
15 481 (12.55%) DevOps
16 460 (12.00%) Computer Science
17 413 (10.78%) Project Management
18 402 (10.49%) Architectural Design
19 401 (10.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,722 (44.94%) Java
2 1,272 (33.19%) SQL
3 992 (25.89%) Python
4 589 (15.37%) JavaScript
5 386 (10.07%) C#
6 336 (8.77%) Scala
7 259 (6.76%) TypeScript
8 157 (4.10%) PL/SQL
9 122 (3.18%) C
10 103 (2.69%) C++
11 99 (2.58%) Go
12 65 (1.70%) Prolog
12 65 (1.70%) SPARQL
13 58 (1.51%) PHP
14 56 (1.46%) Kotlin
15 46 (1.20%) Bash
16 38 (0.99%) T-SQL
17 37 (0.97%) Groovy
18 34 (0.89%) Lua
19 32 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 363 (9.47%) Degree
2 235 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 154 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 97 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 80 (2.09%) AWS Certification
5 80 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 69 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 58 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 54 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 35 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 20 (0.52%) PMP
12 19 (0.50%) ISEB
13 17 (0.44%) CISSP
13 17 (0.44%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.29%) CISM
16 10 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.21%) HNC
18 7 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (3.99%) QA
2 73 (1.91%) SLA
3 63 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.15%) PMO
6 32 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 20 (0.52%) NIST
8 17 (0.44%) ISO 13485
9 16 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.26%) ISO 9000
10 10 (0.26%) SEPA
11 8 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (0.21%) IEC 62304
12 7 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.16%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.16%) TickIT
14 5 (0.13%) MISRA
15 4 (0.10%) GDPR
15 4 (0.10%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.078%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 255 (6.65%) Docker
2 104 (2.71%) HDFS
3 76 (1.98%) Active Directory
4 57 (1.49%) Firmware
5 22 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (0.31%) vSphere
7 11 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.052%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.026%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 467 (12.19%) Kubernetes
2 343 (8.95%) Terraform
3 143 (3.73%) Grafana
4 73 (1.91%) Ansible
5 65 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.76%) Kibana
7 21 (0.55%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.55%) Zipkin
8 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.18%) Graphite
10 5 (0.13%) Argo
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.10%) vRealize
11 4 (0.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (0.078%) Functional Safety
13 2 (0.052%) Istio
13 2 (0.052%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 447 (11.66%) Oracle
2 240 (6.26%) Databricks
3 212 (5.53%) Microsoft
4 146 (3.81%) Splunk
5 133 (3.47%) Dynatrace
6 112 (2.92%) Google
7 91 (2.37%) Informatica
8 74 (1.93%) Cloudera
9 68 (1.77%) IBM
10 55 (1.44%) Alteryx
11 44 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 40 (1.04%) Sparx
13 39 (1.02%) SAP
14 35 (0.91%) Atlassian
15 32 (0.84%) Qualtrics
16 26 (0.68%) Salesforce
17 20 (0.52%) Pega
18 18 (0.47%) Cognos
18 18 (0.47%) Sybase
19 13 (0.34%) Citrix