SDLC Jobs in the West Midlands

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 118 28
Rank change year-on-year +58 -90 +52
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 167 151 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.99% 1.91% 8.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 2.36% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 60 119 187
10th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,125 £66,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,547 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -1.32% -6.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,814 6,401 5,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.10% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 4,665 3,155
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,350 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Warwickshire +23 53 £55,000 -4.35% 11
Birmingham +18 48 £50,475 -15.88% 26
Staffordshire +31 29 £70,000 -22.22% 27
Coventry +1 13 £58,250 +22.63% 4
Solihull 0 6 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Walsall +8 3 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Worcestershire +24 2 - - 2
Tipton - 1 £47,500 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 16 (9.58%) Confluence
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.75%) Azure
2 32 (19.16%) AWS
3 14 (8.38%) GCP
4 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.79%) SaaS
6 5 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.80%) Figma
9 2 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.20%) IaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) 3GPP
1 4 (2.40%) 5G
2 1 (0.60%) Modbus
2 1 (0.60%) Wireless
2 1 (0.60%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.40%) Power BI
3 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.60%) Big Data
4 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.60%) DB2
4 1 (0.60%) MySQL
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (19.16%) JIRA
2 27 (16.17%) GitLab
3 25 (14.97%) Selenium
4 24 (14.37%) Bitbucket
4 24 (14.37%) Cucumber
4 24 (14.37%) Maven
4 24 (14.37%) SonarQube
4 24 (14.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.20%) JUnit
5 2 (1.20%) Mockito
6 1 (0.60%) Git
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (25.15%) Finance
2 37 (22.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (14.37%) Banking
4 20 (11.98%) Social Skills
5 16 (9.58%) Law
6 11 (6.59%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (6.59%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.59%) Retail
7 6 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.99%) Police
9 4 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.80%) Automotive
10 3 (1.80%) Marketing
10 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Advertising
12 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.60%) Legal
12 1 (0.60%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 49 (29.34%) Principal Engineer
2 26 (15.57%) Developer
3 25 (14.97%) Software Engineer
4 17 (10.18%) Senior
5 11 (6.59%) Instrumentation Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Analyst
6 10 (5.99%) Lead
7 9 (5.39%) Architect
7 9 (5.39%) IT Manager
7 9 (5.39%) Software Developer
8 8 (4.79%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.99%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.99%) Development Manager
11 5 (2.99%) IT Development Manager
11 5 (2.99%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.99%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.40%) Graduate Developer
12 4 (2.40%) Graduate Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.37%) JPA
2 26 (15.57%) Spring
3 25 (14.97%) CSS
3 25 (14.97%) HTML
3 25 (14.97%) React
4 24 (14.37%) Kafka
4 24 (14.37%) Redux
4 24 (14.37%) Spring Boot
5 18 (10.78%) REST
6 13 (7.78%) Hibernate
7 12 (7.19%) RESTful
8 11 (6.59%) CSS3
8 11 (6.59%) HTML5
8 11 (6.59%) Jest
8 11 (6.59%) Sass
9 8 (4.79%) .NET
10 6 (3.59%) Laravel
11 5 (2.99%) GWT
11 5 (2.99%) Node.js
11 5 (2.99%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.37%) Product Ownership
2 26 (15.57%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.39%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.60%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) SCADA
7 1 (0.60%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.79%) Linux
2 5 (2.99%) Android
2 5 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.99%) Rocky
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (74.85%) Agile
2 88 (52.69%) Software Engineering
3 66 (39.52%) Waterfall
4 65 (38.92%) Software Testing
5 43 (25.75%) DevOps
6 41 (24.55%) CI/CD
7 32 (19.16%) Test Automation
8 31 (18.56%) Front End Development
9 30 (17.96%) Microservices
10 25 (14.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (14.37%) Containerisation
11 24 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (14.37%) Performance Optimisation
12 23 (13.77%) Mentoring
13 21 (12.57%) Roadmaps
14 20 (11.98%) TDD
15 18 (10.78%) Clean Code
15 18 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (10.78%) User Experience
16 14 (8.38%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.35%) SQL
2 37 (22.16%) JavaScript
3 35 (20.96%) Java
4 12 (7.19%) C#
4 12 (7.19%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.59%) PHP
5 6 (3.59%) Python
6 3 (1.80%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.20%) Bash
8 1 (0.60%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 74 (44.31%) Degree
2 61 (36.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CBAP
7 1 (0.60%) ISEB
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMP
7 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (22.16%) QA
2 11 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.99%) GDPR
5 4 (2.40%) COBIT
5 4 (2.40%) NCSC
6 3 (1.80%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 24 (14.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (14.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
2 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (35.93%) Siemens
2 24 (14.37%) Solace
3 14 (8.38%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.79%) SAP
5 5 (2.99%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.80%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.80%) Oracle
8 1 (0.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.60%) Snow
8 1 (0.60%) Sybase
8 1 (0.60%) VMware