SDLC Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 23 68
Rank change year-on-year -95 +45 -39
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 142 621 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.95% 9.47% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 9.78% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 125 197 195
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £78,750 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,899 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% -6.31% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,045 6,349 6,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.12% 96.80% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,551 3,275 4,766
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,725 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 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
Birmingham -50 79 £62,500 +8.70% 18
Staffordshire -20 18 £90,000 +118.18% 7
Solihull -5 15 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Warwickshire -18 14 £57,500 +8.49% 9
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 -
Shropshire -7 2 £55,000 - 2
Coventry -22 2 £51,250 -3.76% 9
Wolverhampton -23 2 £86,000 +57.37% 2
Worcestershire -26 2 £57,500 +35.29% 4
Walsall -9 1 £50,000 +4.17%
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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 1 (0.70%) Confluence
1 1 (0.70%) NServiceBus
1 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.21%) Azure
2 29 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (16.20%) AWS
4 18 (12.68%) PaaS
5 12 (8.45%) SaaS
6 11 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.04%) IaaS
8 7 (4.93%) GCP
9 6 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.82%) GitHub
12 3 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.41%) Serverless
14 1 (0.70%) Azure Functions
14 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
14 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.04%) NGFW
1 10 (7.04%) VPN
2 2 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.93%) MySQL
2 6 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.11%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (2.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.11%) Power BI
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.41%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.70%) OLAP
7 1 (0.70%) RavenDB
7 1 (0.70%) Redis
7 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) Git
2 10 (7.04%) Postman
3 6 (4.23%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.52%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.11%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.11%) JIRA
6 2 (1.41%) Toad
7 1 (0.70%) GitLab
7 1 (0.70%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.70%) Moq
7 1 (0.70%) NUnit
7 1 (0.70%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 47 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (19.01%) Finance
4 19 (13.38%) Retail
5 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.52%) Digital Healthcare
6 5 (3.52%) Publishing
7 4 (2.82%) Marketing
7 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.11%) Automotive
8 3 (2.11%) Banking
8 3 (2.11%) Electronics
9 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (26.76%) Developer
2 27 (19.01%) Senior
3 21 (14.79%) Architect
4 18 (12.68%) Senior Developer
5 14 (9.86%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.45%) Project Manager
7 11 (7.75%) Citrix Architect
7 11 (7.75%) RPG Developer
8 10 (7.04%) .NET Developer
8 10 (7.04%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (7.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 10 (7.04%) DevOps Architect
9 8 (5.63%) Lead
10 6 (4.23%) Analyst
10 6 (4.23%) AS400 Developer
10 6 (4.23%) IT Manager
10 6 (4.23%) Senior .NET Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.23%) Technical Manager
10 6 (4.23%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (29.58%) .NET
2 23 (16.20%) JSON
3 18 (12.68%) .NET Core
4 16 (11.27%) RESTful
5 15 (10.56%) .NET Framework
6 14 (9.86%) SOAP
7 12 (8.45%) Web Services
8 11 (7.75%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.75%) ASP.NET
8 11 (7.75%) Vue
9 10 (7.04%) ARM Templates
9 10 (7.04%) XML
9 10 (7.04%) YAML
10 9 (6.34%) WCF
11 8 (5.63%) React
12 5 (3.52%) XML Schema
13 4 (2.82%) jQuery
13 4 (2.82%) REST
13 4 (2.82%) Spring
13 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.20%) Product Ownership
2 20 (14.08%) Mobile App
3 16 (11.27%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (9.86%) Public Cloud
5 11 (7.75%) AS400
5 11 (7.75%) iSeries
6 10 (7.04%) Private Cloud
6 10 (7.04%) Virtual Team
7 9 (6.34%) Cloud Native
7 9 (6.34%) Management Information System
8 6 (4.23%) Data Structures
9 5 (3.52%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.41%) IoT
11 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.23%) Linux
2 5 (3.52%) Windows
3 3 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.11%) Unix
3 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (61.97%) Agile
2 53 (37.32%) DevOps
3 47 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (25.35%) Computer Science
5 34 (23.94%) Software Engineering
6 31 (21.83%) Mentoring
6 31 (21.83%) Test Automation
7 23 (16.20%) Roadmaps
8 22 (15.49%) Project Management
8 22 (15.49%) Software Testing
8 22 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (14.79%) CI/CD
10 20 (14.08%) Regression Testing
11 19 (13.38%) Test Strategy
12 17 (11.97%) Functional Testing
12 17 (11.97%) Project Delivery
13 16 (11.27%) Performance Metrics
14 15 (10.56%) Data Management
14 15 (10.56%) Test Management
14 15 (10.56%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 41 (28.87%) SQL
2 31 (21.83%) C#
3 21 (14.79%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.86%) Python
5 11 (7.75%) Java
5 11 (7.75%) RPG
5 11 (7.75%) RPG IV
5 11 (7.75%) RPG/400
6 10 (7.04%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.93%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.52%) C
8 5 (3.52%) PHP
9 4 (2.82%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.41%) C++
10 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (28.17%) Degree
2 19 (13.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.45%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.75%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.52%) HNC
5 5 (3.52%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.70%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.08%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) ITGC
2 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (7.04%) Virtual Desktop
1 10 (7.04%) VMware ESXi
1 10 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (7.04%) vSphere
2 8 (5.63%) Docker
3 5 (3.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (10.56%) Terraform
2 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Grafana
3 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (9.86%) IBM
2 11 (7.75%) Citrix
3 10 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.04%) VMware
4 7 (4.93%) Google
5 5 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.11%) InterSystems
7 2 (1.41%) Informatica
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle
7 2 (1.41%) SAP
8 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.70%) Splunk
8 1 (0.70%) Xamarin