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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 114 23
Rank change year-on-year +41 -91 +53
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 153 146 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.53% 1.95% 9.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 2.37% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 56 122 187
10th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £37,400
25th Percentile £44,625 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,125 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,563 £66,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -6.31%

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 3,962 6,160 6,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.29% 82.46% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 4,566 3,147
10th Percentile £28,875 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,713 £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 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 19 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 19 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
Birmingham +19 49 £51,250 -16.33% 31
Warwickshire +9 41 £57,500 - 16
Staffordshire +28 30 £70,000 -22.22% 25
Coventry 0 11 £58,250 +22.63% 2
Solihull -3 4 £58,750 +17.50% 5
Herefordshire - 4 - -
Walsall +4 3 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Worcestershire +24 2 - - 5
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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 17 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.76%) Azure
2 32 (20.92%) AWS
3 15 (9.80%) GCP
4 10 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.88%) SaaS
6 5 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.96%) Figma
8 2 (1.31%) IaaS
8 2 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) 3GPP
1 4 (2.61%) 5G
2 1 (0.65%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.65%) Modbus
2 1 (0.65%) Wireless
2 1 (0.65%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.34%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.27%) Power BI
3 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.65%) Big Data
3 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.65%) DB2
3 1 (0.65%) MySQL
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (21.57%) JIRA
2 27 (17.65%) GitLab
3 25 (16.34%) Selenium
4 24 (15.69%) Bitbucket
4 24 (15.69%) Cucumber
4 24 (15.69%) Maven
4 24 (15.69%) SonarQube
4 24 (15.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.31%) JUnit
5 2 (1.31%) Mockito
6 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.65%) Git
6 1 (0.65%) JMeter
6 1 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (25.49%) Finance
2 34 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (15.69%) Banking
4 23 (15.03%) Social Skills
5 12 (7.84%) Law
6 11 (7.19%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (7.19%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.19%) Retail
7 6 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.27%) Police
9 4 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.96%) Automotive
10 3 (1.96%) Marketing
10 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Legal
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.65%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 50 (32.68%) Principal Engineer
2 25 (16.34%) Software Engineer
3 22 (14.38%) Developer
4 13 (8.50%) Senior
5 10 (6.54%) Analyst
5 10 (6.54%) Lead
6 9 (5.88%) Architect
7 8 (5.23%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.23%) Software Developer
8 7 (4.58%) IT Manager
9 6 (3.92%) Development Manager
9 6 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.27%) IT Development Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.61%) Graduate Developer
11 4 (2.61%) Graduate Java Developer
11 4 (2.61%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.61%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.95%) JPA
2 26 (16.99%) Spring
3 25 (16.34%) CSS
3 25 (16.34%) HTML
3 25 (16.34%) React
4 24 (15.69%) Kafka
4 24 (15.69%) Redux
4 24 (15.69%) Spring Boot
5 18 (11.76%) REST
6 13 (8.50%) Hibernate
7 12 (7.84%) RESTful
8 11 (7.19%) CSS3
8 11 (7.19%) HTML5
8 11 (7.19%) Jest
8 11 (7.19%) Sass
9 6 (3.92%) .NET
9 6 (3.92%) Laravel
9 6 (3.92%) Node.js
10 5 (3.27%) J2EE
10 5 (3.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.61%) Product Ownership
2 24 (15.69%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) SCADA
8 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Linux
2 5 (3.27%) Android
2 5 (3.27%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.27%) Rocky
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (74.51%) Agile
2 77 (50.33%) Software Engineering
3 56 (36.60%) Waterfall
4 54 (35.29%) Software Testing
5 45 (29.41%) DevOps
6 44 (28.76%) CI/CD
7 33 (21.57%) Test Automation
8 30 (19.61%) Microservices
9 29 (18.95%) Front End Development
10 26 (16.99%) Mentoring
11 25 (16.34%) Containerisation
11 25 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (16.34%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (15.69%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (13.07%) Roadmaps
13 20 (13.07%) TDD
14 19 (12.42%) Clean Code
15 17 (11.11%) User Experience
16 15 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
17 14 (9.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.18%) SQL
2 35 (22.88%) Java
2 35 (22.88%) JavaScript
3 13 (8.50%) TypeScript
4 10 (6.54%) C#
5 6 (3.92%) PHP
5 6 (3.92%) Python
6 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.31%) Bash
7 2 (1.31%) C
8 1 (0.65%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 62 (40.52%) Degree
2 48 (31.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.31%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.65%) APMP
7 1 (0.65%) CBAP
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) ISEB
7 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (23.53%) QA
2 11 (7.19%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.92%) GDPR
5 4 (2.61%) NCSC
6 3 (1.96%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.65%) COBIT
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (16.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (16.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Grafana
2 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (32.03%) Siemens
2 24 (15.69%) Solace
3 13 (8.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.58%) SAP
5 5 (3.27%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.96%) Oracle
8 2 (1.31%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.65%) Databricks
9 1 (0.65%) Sybase
9 1 (0.65%) VMware