SDLC Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 47 79 65
Rank change year-on-year +32 -14 -5
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,844 1,943 3,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.36% 4.04% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 4.22% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 811 1,455 2,149
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% +13.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,548 £80,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,975 45,995 74,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.63% 95.53% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 26,900 43,045
10th Percentile £28,371 £30,500 £30,076
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,050 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 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
Scotland +61 1,500 £65,000 +6.91% 14
North of England -18 352 £57,500 - 54
South East -36 347 £58,000 +0.87% 43
Midlands -38 265 £50,000 -10.71% 50
North West +14 225 £60,000 +4.35% 31
South West -29 212 £57,500 -5.43% 31
West Midlands -47 135 £50,000 -13.04% 34
East Midlands -14 129 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Yorkshire -26 97 £52,500 -11.39% 19
East of England -55 76 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Wales +36 66 £50,000 +8.11% 7
North East -25 30 £57,500 - 6
Northern Ireland +16 25 £50,000 -13.04% 19
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
1 306 (10.76%) Apache Spark
2 98 (3.45%) FileNet
3 72 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (2.36%) Apache
5 42 (1.48%) WebLogic
6 35 (1.23%) nginx
7 33 (1.16%) Camunda
8 26 (0.91%) SharePoint
9 23 (0.81%) Confluence
10 21 (0.74%) GemFire
11 17 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
12 11 (0.39%) CICS
13 10 (0.35%) CMS
14 6 (0.21%) IIS
15 4 (0.14%) WildFly
16 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
17 2 (0.070%) OpenEdge
17 2 (0.070%) WebSphere
18 1 (0.035%) Kinematics
18 1 (0.035%) Umbraco
Applications
1 38 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Simulink
6 7 (0.25%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.11%) Trello
8 2 (0.070%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.14%) CA PPM
3 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.070%) SAP MII
4 2 (0.070%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.035%) Maximo
5 1 (0.035%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.035%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.035%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.035%) Postilion
5 1 (0.035%) Primavera
5 1 (0.035%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 969 (34.07%) AWS
2 412 (14.49%) Azure
3 127 (4.47%) Amazon S3
4 100 (3.52%) GCP
5 91 (3.20%) Datadog
6 88 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (2.53%) SaaS
9 70 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
9 70 (2.46%) GitHub
10 61 (2.14%) IBM Cloud
11 53 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
12 52 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (1.76%) Serverless
14 49 (1.72%) Power Platform
15 44 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
16 39 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
17 35 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
18 33 (1.16%) OpenShift
19 31 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.14%) Kerberos
2 41 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 40 (1.41%) BGP
3 40 (1.41%) DNS
3 40 (1.41%) SSL
4 9 (0.32%) Network Security
5 6 (0.21%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.14%) 5G
6 4 (0.14%) Firewall
6 4 (0.14%) Internet
6 4 (0.14%) Profibus
7 3 (0.11%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.070%) 4G
8 2 (0.070%) Broadband
8 2 (0.070%) FlexRay
8 2 (0.070%) MQTT
8 2 (0.070%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.035%) ATM
9 1 (0.035%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.035%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (16.14%) NoSQL
2 261 (9.18%) Big Data
3 139 (4.89%) Relational Database
4 120 (4.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 110 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
6 102 (3.59%) Hadoop
7 101 (3.55%) SQL Server
8 85 (2.99%) Oracle Database
9 81 (2.85%) RDBMS
10 76 (2.67%) Apache Hive
11 70 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
12 69 (2.43%) MySQL
13 67 (2.36%) MongoDB
14 63 (2.22%) Metadata
15 60 (2.11%) HBase
16 56 (1.97%) Data Lake
16 56 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
17 43 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
18 39 (1.37%) Power BI
19 38 (1.34%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 235 (8.26%) Git
2 212 (7.45%) Jenkins
3 202 (7.10%) JUnit
4 135 (4.75%) JIRA
5 106 (3.73%) Jasmine
6 82 (2.88%) Selenium
7 71 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 60 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 60 (2.11%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (2.11%) Protractor
8 60 (2.11%) WebDriver
9 58 (2.04%) Bitbucket
10 49 (1.72%) Artifactory
10 49 (1.72%) Mockito
11 46 (1.62%) Maven
12 38 (1.34%) JMeter
12 38 (1.34%) Visual Studio
13 32 (1.13%) Postman
14 25 (0.88%) Android Studio
15 21 (0.74%) GitLab
General
1 1,557 (54.75%) Finance
2 1,459 (51.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,391 (48.91%) Law
4 674 (23.70%) Marketing
5 537 (18.88%) Legal
6 536 (18.85%) Social Skills
7 275 (9.67%) Banking
8 258 (9.07%) Investment Banking
9 187 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
10 130 (4.57%) Financial Institution
11 121 (4.25%) Retail
12 105 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
13 91 (3.20%) Public Sector
14 69 (2.43%) Aerospace
15 39 (1.37%) Manufacturing
16 35 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (1.20%) Games
18 24 (0.84%) Telecoms
19 23 (0.81%) Prime Brokerage
20 22 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,459 (51.30%) Software Engineer
2 599 (21.06%) Lead
3 486 (17.09%) Java Engineer
4 478 (16.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 405 (14.24%) Senior
6 402 (14.14%) Lead Software Engineer
7 385 (13.54%) Developer
8 254 (8.93%) Full Stack Engineer
9 221 (7.77%) Big Data Engineer
9 221 (7.77%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 217 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 214 (7.52%) AWS Engineer
11 214 (7.52%) Python Engineer
12 213 (7.49%) Python Software Engineer
13 194 (6.82%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 188 (6.61%) AWS Software Engineer
15 173 (6.08%) Lead Java Engineer
16 160 (5.63%) Data Engineer
17 155 (5.45%) Project Manager
18 143 (5.03%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (16.98%) React
2 449 (15.79%) Spring
3 343 (12.06%) AngularJS
4 281 (9.88%) HTML
5 273 (9.60%) Kafka
6 268 (9.42%) .NET
7 254 (8.93%) CSS
8 239 (8.40%) Node.js
9 230 (8.09%) Spring Boot
10 224 (7.88%) J2EE
11 221 (7.77%) JSON
12 208 (7.31%) Hibernate
13 165 (5.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 163 (5.73%) JMS
15 158 (5.56%) RESTful
16 147 (5.17%) jQuery
17 139 (4.89%) Web Services
18 119 (4.18%) GraphQL
19 115 (4.04%) PySpark
20 100 (3.52%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 585 (20.57%) Algorithms
2 525 (18.46%) Cloud Native
3 156 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 145 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 116 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 100 (3.52%) Product Ownership
7 91 (3.20%) Data Structures
8 81 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
9 80 (2.81%) Reference Data
10 76 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
11 61 (2.14%) Blockchain
11 61 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 61 (2.14%) Market Risk
12 48 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
12 48 (1.69%) Mobile App
13 44 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
14 38 (1.34%) e-Learning
15 36 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 31 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 241 (8.47%) Linux
2 123 (4.32%) Unix
3 46 (1.62%) Windows
4 43 (1.51%) Android
5 40 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.11%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 1 (0.035%) Debian
10 1 (0.035%) Solaris
10 1 (0.035%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,117 (74.44%) Agile
2 1,720 (60.48%) Software Engineering
3 1,444 (50.77%) CI/CD
4 1,151 (40.47%) Operational Stability
5 992 (34.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 914 (32.14%) Machine Learning
7 854 (30.03%) Community of Practice
8 686 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 537 (18.88%) Visualisation
10 522 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
11 484 (17.02%) Risk Management
12 386 (13.57%) Full Stack Development
13 381 (13.40%) Computer Science
14 363 (12.76%) Microservices
15 334 (11.74%) DevOps
16 327 (11.50%) Decision-Making
17 318 (11.18%) Continuous Delivery
18 310 (10.90%) Project Management
19 296 (10.41%) Mentoring
20 281 (9.88%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,155 (40.61%) Java
2 864 (30.38%) SQL
3 668 (23.49%) Python
4 455 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 319 (11.22%) C#
6 229 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 203 (7.14%) Scala
8 143 (5.03%) C++
9 124 (4.36%) C
10 101 (3.55%) PL/SQL
11 77 (2.71%) Bash
12 66 (2.32%) Go
13 45 (1.58%) Kotlin
13 45 (1.58%) PHP
14 44 (1.55%) Prolog
14 44 (1.55%) SPARQL
15 40 (1.41%) Groovy
16 36 (1.27%) Fortran
17 34 (1.20%) T-SQL
18 33 (1.16%) Lua
Qualifications
1 382 (13.43%) Degree
2 208 (7.31%) Security Cleared
3 131 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 82 (2.88%) SC Cleared
5 81 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 55 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 47 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.55%) AWS Certification
9 40 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.02%) PhD
11 25 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 17 (0.60%) CISSP
14 13 (0.46%) CISM
15 11 (0.39%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.39%) ISEB
15 11 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.35%) PMP
17 7 (0.25%) CRISC
17 7 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (6.96%) QA
2 43 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 22 (0.77%) NIST
4 21 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 21 (0.74%) PMO
5 16 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (0.56%) SLA
6 10 (0.35%) ISO 9000
7 9 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 7 (0.25%) TickIT
10 5 (0.18%) ISO 13485
10 5 (0.18%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.14%) GDPR
11 4 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.070%) MISRA
System Software
1 187 (6.58%) Docker
2 62 (2.18%) HDFS
3 57 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 31 (1.09%) Firmware
5 12 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.39%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.070%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.035%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 347 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 240 (8.44%) Terraform
3 124 (4.36%) Grafana
4 66 (2.32%) Prometheus
5 59 (2.07%) Ansible
6 25 (0.88%) Kibana
7 21 (0.74%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.74%) Zipkin
8 9 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.25%) Graphite
10 5 (0.18%) Istio
11 3 (0.11%) Fortio
11 3 (0.11%) Kiali
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.11%) Puppet
12 1 (0.035%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 336 (11.81%) Oracle
2 167 (5.87%) Microsoft
3 152 (5.34%) Databricks
4 128 (4.50%) Splunk
5 118 (4.15%) Dynatrace
6 86 (3.02%) Google
7 78 (2.74%) IBM
8 64 (2.25%) Informatica
9 62 (2.18%) Red Hat
10 40 (1.41%) Sparx
11 35 (1.23%) Alteryx
12 32 (1.13%) Cloudera
13 16 (0.56%) BT
14 15 (0.53%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.42%) SAP
16 11 (0.39%) Nintex
17 9 (0.32%) TOWER Software
18 7 (0.25%) Qualtrics
18 7 (0.25%) Salesforce
19 6 (0.21%) Apple