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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 23 73
Rank change year-on-year -97 +50 -42
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 139 617 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.91% 9.65% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 9.97% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 122 194 192
10th Percentile £41,375 £37,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +11.70%
75th Percentile £74,375 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,375 £72,375
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 6,024 6,187 6,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.91% 96.76% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,530 3,195 4,738
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,713 £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 £78,750 £78,750
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 7 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 7 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 -49 77 £61,250 +6.52% 19
Staffordshire -20 18 £90,000 +118.18% 7
Solihull -4 15 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Warwickshire -17 14 £57,500 +8.49% 7
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 -
Coventry -19 3 £47,500 -10.80% 8
Shropshire -9 2 £55,000 - 2
Worcestershire -28 2 £57,500 +35.29% 5
Walsall -9 1 £50,000 +4.17%
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England

SDLC
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 (0.72%) Confluence
1 1 (0.72%) NServiceBus
1 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.81%) Azure
2 29 (20.86%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (13.67%) AWS
4 16 (11.51%) PaaS
5 11 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.19%) IaaS
6 10 (7.19%) SaaS
7 6 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.60%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.60%) GCP
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.88%) GitHub
10 3 (2.16%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.44%) Serverless
12 1 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.19%) NGFW
1 10 (7.19%) VPN
2 2 (1.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.04%) MySQL
2 6 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.16%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (2.16%) Power BI
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.44%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.72%) OLAP
7 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.72%) RavenDB
7 1 (0.72%) Redis
7 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (9.35%) Git
2 10 (7.19%) Postman
3 6 (4.32%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.60%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.16%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.16%) JIRA
6 2 (1.44%) Toad
7 1 (0.72%) GitLab
7 1 (0.72%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.72%) Moq
7 1 (0.72%) NUnit
7 1 (0.72%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.72%) SpecFlow
General
1 47 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (18.71%) Finance
3 19 (13.67%) Retail
4 6 (4.32%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.60%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (3.60%) Publishing
6 4 (2.88%) Marketing
6 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Automotive
7 3 (2.16%) Banking
7 3 (2.16%) Electronics
8 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (26.62%) Developer
2 25 (17.99%) Senior
3 19 (13.67%) Architect
4 16 (11.51%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.07%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.63%) Project Manager
7 11 (7.91%) Citrix Architect
7 11 (7.91%) RPG Developer
8 10 (7.19%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (7.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 10 (7.19%) DevOps Architect
9 8 (5.76%) .NET Developer
9 8 (5.76%) Lead
10 6 (4.32%) Analyst
10 6 (4.32%) AS400 Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Head of Development
10 6 (4.32%) Head of Software Development
10 6 (4.32%) IT Manager
10 6 (4.32%) Technical Manager
10 6 (4.32%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (28.06%) .NET
2 23 (16.55%) JSON
3 18 (12.95%) .NET Core
4 15 (10.79%) .NET Framework
4 15 (10.79%) RESTful
5 14 (10.07%) SOAP
6 12 (8.63%) Web Services
7 11 (7.91%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.91%) Vue
8 10 (7.19%) ARM Templates
8 10 (7.19%) ASP.NET
8 10 (7.19%) XML
8 10 (7.19%) YAML
9 9 (6.47%) React
9 9 (6.47%) WCF
10 5 (3.60%) XML Schema
11 4 (2.88%) jQuery
11 4 (2.88%) REST
11 4 (2.88%) Spring
11 4 (2.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.55%) Product Ownership
2 20 (14.39%) Mobile App
3 16 (11.51%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (10.07%) Public Cloud
5 11 (7.91%) AS400
5 11 (7.91%) iSeries
6 10 (7.19%) Private Cloud
6 10 (7.19%) Virtual Team
7 9 (6.47%) Cloud Native
7 9 (6.47%) Management Information System
8 6 (4.32%) Data Structures
9 5 (3.60%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.44%) IoT
11 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.32%) Linux
2 5 (3.60%) Windows
3 3 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.16%) Unix
3 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (62.59%) Agile
2 49 (35.25%) DevOps
3 46 (33.09%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (25.90%) Computer Science
5 34 (24.46%) Software Engineering
6 31 (22.30%) Mentoring
6 31 (22.30%) Test Automation
7 22 (15.83%) Project Management
7 22 (15.83%) Software Testing
7 22 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (15.11%) Roadmaps
9 20 (14.39%) Regression Testing
10 19 (13.67%) CI/CD
10 19 (13.67%) Test Strategy
11 17 (12.23%) Functional Testing
11 17 (12.23%) Project Delivery
12 16 (11.51%) Performance Metrics
13 15 (10.79%) Data Management
13 15 (10.79%) Test Management
13 15 (10.79%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.34%) SQL
2 28 (20.14%) C#
3 22 (15.83%) JavaScript
4 11 (7.91%) RPG
4 11 (7.91%) RPG IV
4 11 (7.91%) RPG/400
5 10 (7.19%) PowerShell
5 10 (7.19%) Python
6 9 (6.47%) Java
7 5 (3.60%) C
7 5 (3.60%) PHP
7 5 (3.60%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.88%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.44%) C++
9 2 (1.44%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.72%) VB
10 1 (0.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (28.78%) Degree
2 19 (13.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.63%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.91%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.60%) HNC
5 5 (3.60%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.72%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) QA
2 1 (0.72%) ITGC
2 1 (0.72%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (7.19%) Virtual Desktop
1 10 (7.19%) VMware ESXi
1 10 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (7.19%) vSphere
2 6 (4.32%) Docker
3 5 (3.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (10.79%) Terraform
2 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Grafana
3 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (10.07%) IBM
2 11 (7.91%) Citrix
3 10 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.19%) VMware
4 5 (3.60%) Google
4 5 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.16%) InterSystems
6 2 (1.44%) Informatica
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle
6 2 (1.44%) SAP
7 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.72%) Splunk
7 1 (0.72%) Xamarin