Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 57 74 66
Rank change year-on-year +17 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 3,486 3,286 9,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.86% 4.07% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.27% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 2,451 4,361
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,124
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,088 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,800 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.72% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,500 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% +13.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK 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
UK excluding London +32 2,844 £55,500 -3.48% 226
England -40 1,831 £62,500 +2.80% 249
Scotland +61 1,500 £65,000 +6.91% 14
Work from Home +1 934 £60,000 -4.00% 141
London -54 560 £80,000 +10.34% 68
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 322 (9.24%) Apache Spark
2 98 (2.81%) FileNet
3 88 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 87 (2.50%) Apache
5 50 (1.43%) WebLogic
6 46 (1.32%) nginx
7 39 (1.12%) SharePoint
8 35 (1.00%) Camunda
9 33 (0.95%) Confluence
10 24 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
11 22 (0.63%) GemFire
12 17 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
13 11 (0.32%) CICS
13 11 (0.32%) CMS
14 8 (0.23%) SAS
15 7 (0.20%) IIS
16 4 (0.11%) Drupal
16 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
16 4 (0.11%) WildFly
17 3 (0.086%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 60 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.20%) Simulink
6 7 (0.20%) SPSS
6 7 (0.20%) UserZoom
7 4 (0.11%) Trello
8 2 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.057%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.029%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (1.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 26 (0.75%) Endur
3 24 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.11%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.086%) Relativity
7 2 (0.057%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.057%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.057%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.057%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.057%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 1 (0.029%) Maximo
8 1 (0.029%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.029%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 1 (0.029%) Primavera
8 1 (0.029%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.029%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.029%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,165 (33.42%) AWS
2 594 (17.04%) Azure
3 165 (4.73%) GCP
4 139 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
5 135 (3.87%) Amazon S3
6 116 (3.33%) SaaS
7 99 (2.84%) Datadog
7 99 (2.84%) GitHub
8 91 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
9 85 (2.44%) Power Platform
10 82 (2.35%) Serverless
11 79 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
12 66 (1.89%) IBM Cloud
13 59 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
13 59 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 56 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 52 (1.49%) Power Automate
16 50 (1.43%) PaaS
17 47 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
18 45 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.75%) Kerberos
2 56 (1.61%) DNS
3 53 (1.52%) SSL
4 49 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 46 (1.32%) BGP
6 12 (0.34%) Network Security
7 11 (0.32%) Firewall
8 9 (0.26%) Internet
9 8 (0.23%) SSH
10 7 (0.20%) VPN
11 6 (0.17%) AMQP
11 6 (0.17%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.14%) HTTP
12 5 (0.14%) IPsec
13 4 (0.11%) 5G
13 4 (0.11%) Profibus
14 3 (0.086%) Broadband
14 3 (0.086%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.057%) FTP
15 2 (0.057%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 499 (14.31%) NoSQL
2 299 (8.58%) Big Data
3 204 (5.85%) Relational Database
4 157 (4.50%) SQL Server
5 122 (3.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 117 (3.36%) RDBMS
7 111 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
8 106 (3.04%) Hadoop
9 93 (2.67%) Oracle Database
10 87 (2.50%) MySQL
11 83 (2.38%) MongoDB
12 82 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
13 81 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
14 80 (2.29%) Apache Hive
15 76 (2.18%) Metadata
16 63 (1.81%) Data Lake
17 60 (1.72%) HBase
18 59 (1.69%) Power BI
19 51 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
20 38 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 288 (8.26%) Git
2 256 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 211 (6.05%) JUnit
4 179 (5.13%) JIRA
5 110 (3.16%) Jasmine
6 95 (2.73%) Selenium
7 81 (2.32%) Cypress.io
8 61 (1.75%) WebDriver
9 60 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
9 60 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (1.72%) Protractor
10 59 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 50 (1.43%) Maven
11 50 (1.43%) Mockito
12 49 (1.41%) Artifactory
12 49 (1.41%) Postman
13 45 (1.29%) JMeter
14 44 (1.26%) Visual Studio
15 33 (0.95%) Cucumber
15 33 (0.95%) GitLab
General
1 1,752 (50.26%) Finance
2 1,508 (43.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,443 (41.39%) Law
4 748 (21.46%) Marketing
5 732 (21.00%) Social Skills
6 572 (16.41%) Legal
7 336 (9.64%) Banking
8 273 (7.83%) Investment Banking
9 269 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
10 146 (4.19%) Financial Institution
11 135 (3.87%) Retail
12 115 (3.30%) Public Sector
13 113 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
14 71 (2.04%) Aerospace
15 62 (1.78%) Games
16 50 (1.43%) Manufacturing
17 48 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (1.00%) Retail Banking
19 33 (0.95%) Telecoms
20 29 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,527 (43.80%) Software Engineer
2 719 (20.63%) Lead
3 561 (16.09%) Senior
4 545 (15.63%) Developer
5 498 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 483 (13.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 418 (11.99%) Lead Software Engineer
8 261 (7.49%) Full Stack Engineer
9 250 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 221 (6.34%) Big Data Engineer
10 221 (6.34%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 220 (6.31%) Python Engineer
12 217 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
13 216 (6.20%) Python Software Engineer
14 197 (5.65%) Project Manager
15 196 (5.62%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 188 (5.39%) AWS Software Engineer
17 183 (5.25%) Analyst
18 176 (5.05%) Architect
19 175 (5.02%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 544 (15.61%) React
2 493 (14.14%) Spring
3 382 (10.96%) AngularJS
4 353 (10.13%) .NET
5 327 (9.38%) Kafka
6 303 (8.69%) HTML
7 302 (8.66%) Spring Boot
8 280 (8.03%) CSS
9 270 (7.75%) Node.js
10 237 (6.80%) JSON
11 231 (6.63%) J2EE
12 220 (6.31%) Hibernate
13 191 (5.48%) RESTful
14 174 (4.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 172 (4.93%) Web Services
16 166 (4.76%) JMS
17 152 (4.36%) jQuery
18 129 (3.70%) GraphQL
19 124 (3.56%) XML
20 118 (3.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 596 (17.10%) Algorithms
2 566 (16.24%) Cloud Native
3 174 (4.99%) Public Cloud
4 172 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 137 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 126 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 97 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 96 (2.75%) Data Structures
9 93 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
10 84 (2.41%) Reference Data
11 73 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
12 72 (2.07%) Blockchain
13 66 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 61 (1.75%) Market Risk
15 60 (1.72%) Mobile App
16 54 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
17 53 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
18 44 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
19 40 (1.15%) e-Learning
20 31 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 278 (7.97%) Linux
2 137 (3.93%) Unix
3 66 (1.89%) Windows
4 61 (1.75%) Android
5 50 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.086%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 2 (0.057%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.029%) Debian
11 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,474 (70.97%) Agile
2 1,891 (54.25%) Software Engineering
3 1,580 (45.32%) CI/CD
4 1,168 (33.51%) Operational Stability
5 1,027 (29.46%) Artificial Intelligence
6 940 (26.97%) Machine Learning
7 862 (24.73%) Community of Practice
8 758 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 665 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
10 556 (15.95%) Visualisation
11 519 (14.89%) DevOps
12 513 (14.72%) Risk Management
13 500 (14.34%) Microservices
14 466 (13.37%) Computer Science
15 452 (12.97%) Full Stack Development
16 418 (11.99%) Project Management
17 374 (10.73%) Mentoring
18 355 (10.18%) Decision-Making
19 354 (10.15%) Continuous Delivery
20 350 (10.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,363 (39.10%) Java
2 998 (28.63%) SQL
3 786 (22.55%) Python
4 554 (15.89%) JavaScript
5 417 (11.96%) C#
6 267 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 227 (6.51%) Scala
8 180 (5.16%) C++
9 135 (3.87%) C
10 107 (3.07%) Go
11 102 (2.93%) PL/SQL
12 89 (2.55%) Bash
13 70 (2.01%) Kotlin
14 61 (1.75%) PHP
15 49 (1.41%) PowerShell
16 44 (1.26%) Prolog
16 44 (1.26%) SPARQL
17 42 (1.20%) Groovy
18 38 (1.09%) T-SQL
19 37 (1.06%) VB
Qualifications
1 481 (13.80%) Degree
2 251 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 173 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 112 (3.21%) SC Cleared
5 92 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 67 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 61 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 49 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 36 (1.03%) ISTQB
11 35 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 30 (0.86%) PhD
13 26 (0.75%) CISSP
14 24 (0.69%) ISEB
15 22 (0.63%) CISM
16 14 (0.40%) PMP
17 13 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (0.37%) DBS Check
18 11 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
19 8 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (7.49%) QA
2 51 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 35 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 28 (0.80%) NIST
6 22 (0.63%) PMO
7 16 (0.46%) SLA
8 15 (0.43%) ISO 9001
9 14 (0.40%) ISO 9000
10 11 (0.32%) GDPR
11 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 7 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.20%) TickIT
13 6 (0.17%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.14%) ISO 13485
14 5 (0.14%) Solvency II
15 4 (0.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 293 (8.41%) Docker
2 66 (1.89%) HDFS
3 57 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 31 (0.89%) Firmware
5 12 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.029%) GridGain
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.029%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 464 (13.31%) Kubernetes
2 299 (8.58%) Terraform
3 146 (4.19%) Grafana
4 81 (2.32%) Ansible
4 81 (2.32%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.86%) Kibana
6 21 (0.60%) HAProxy
6 21 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (0.60%) Zipkin
7 12 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.32%) Puppet
9 7 (0.20%) Graphite
10 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
11 4 (0.11%) Packer
11 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.086%) Fortio
12 3 (0.086%) Kiali
12 3 (0.086%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.086%) Salt
Vendors
1 388 (11.13%) Oracle
2 254 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 171 (4.91%) Databricks
4 137 (3.93%) Splunk
5 120 (3.44%) Google
6 119 (3.41%) Dynatrace
7 83 (2.38%) IBM
8 67 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 64 (1.84%) Informatica
10 48 (1.38%) Sparx
11 35 (1.00%) Alteryx
12 34 (0.98%) Cloudera
13 30 (0.86%) Sybase
14 26 (0.75%) OpenLink
14 26 (0.75%) Salesforce
15 24 (0.69%) TIBCO
16 23 (0.66%) SAP
17 18 (0.52%) Atlassian
18 17 (0.49%) BT
19 14 (0.40%) ServiceNow