Synthetic Environment Jobs

Synthetic Environment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Synthetic Environment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Environment over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 725 861 965
Rank change year-on-year +136 +104 +86
Permanent jobs citing Synthetic Environment 5 38 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.038% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.045% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 5 26 5
10th Percentile £55,471 £22,984 £58,250
25th Percentile £56,176 £55,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £64,375 £63,750
90th Percentile - £65,000 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,280 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.47% -4.00% +31.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Synthetic Environment 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 52,380 85,029 95,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.31% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 59,821 55,996
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,079 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%

Synthetic Environment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Synthetic Environment in the UK

Synthetic Environment
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Synthetic Environment.

Salary trend for Synthetic Environment in the UK

Synthetic Environment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Synthetic Environment over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Synthetic Environment in the UK

Synthetic Environment
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Synthetic Environment within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
England +106 5 £64,000 +6.67% 26
UK excluding London +146 4 £66,280 +10.47% 24
South West +105 2 £75,000 +36.36% 8
East of England +27 1 £55,000 - 9
London - 1 £64,000 - 2
North West - 1 £57,560 - 1
North of England - 1 £57,560 - 3

Synthetic Environment
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Planning Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Planning Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Line Management
1 2 (40.00%) MLOps
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Ada
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) HNC
1 1 (20.00%) HND
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) OPNET
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Palantir