SDLC Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 86 78
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 -19
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 499 1,173 1,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.24% 3.47% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 3.79% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 295 671 1,321
10th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,050 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,384 30,949 40,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.29% 91.59% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,737 23,494 28,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

SDLC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SDLC trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SDLC
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SDLC.

SDLC salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDLC
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SDLC over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

SDLC salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 84 (16.83%) Confluence
2 29 (5.81%) CMS
3 9 (1.80%) Drupal
3 9 (1.80%) WordPress
4 7 (1.40%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.80%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.60%) Kentico
6 3 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.40%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.40%) Kinematics
7 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.80%) Trello
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) Blender
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.80%) Shopify
2 6 (1.20%) Magento
3 5 (1.00%) Endur
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 209 (41.88%) Azure
2 171 (34.27%) AWS
3 115 (23.05%) GCP
4 39 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (6.61%) SaaS
6 30 (6.01%) Serverless
7 25 (5.01%) GitHub
8 18 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.41%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (2.81%) Datadog
13 8 (1.60%) BigCommerce
13 8 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (1.60%) PaaS
14 7 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.20%) Azure Functions
15 6 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (1.20%) Google Analytics
16 4 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.61%) 5G
2 9 (1.80%) SD-WAN
2 9 (1.80%) WAN
3 4 (0.80%) 3GPP
3 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.60%) Firewall
4 3 (0.60%) Internet
5 2 (0.40%) Wireless
5 2 (0.40%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.20%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.20%) Network Security
6 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (21.64%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.80%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.40%) Redis
6 5 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.00%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.60%) MySQL
7 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.40%) CouchDB
8 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.40%) Power BI
8 2 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 128 (25.65%) JIRA
2 103 (20.64%) GitLab
3 100 (20.04%) Maven
4 99 (19.84%) SonarQube
5 98 (19.64%) Selenium
6 97 (19.44%) Cucumber
7 88 (17.64%) Bitbucket
8 83 (16.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 56 (11.22%) Git
10 34 (6.81%) Jenkins
11 22 (4.41%) JUnit
12 19 (3.81%) Mockito
13 14 (2.81%) Visual Studio
14 13 (2.61%) IntelliJ
15 9 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (1.60%) Cypress.io
16 8 (1.60%) webpack
17 6 (1.20%) Postman
18 5 (1.00%) IBM UrbanCode
19 4 (0.80%) SoapUI
General
1 197 (39.48%) Finance
2 137 (27.45%) Banking
3 124 (24.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 99 (19.84%) Social Skills
5 42 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (7.41%) Retail
7 31 (6.21%) Law
8 26 (5.21%) Marketing
9 21 (4.21%) Corporate Banking
9 21 (4.21%) Investment Banking
10 17 (3.41%) Public Sector
11 16 (3.21%) Legal
12 11 (2.20%) Tech for Good
12 11 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.60%) Games
15 7 (1.40%) Advertising
16 6 (1.20%) Police
16 6 (1.20%) Publishing
17 5 (1.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 174 (34.87%) Software Engineer
2 101 (20.24%) Developer
3 82 (16.43%) Senior
4 39 (7.82%) Lead
5 35 (7.01%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.41%) Analyst
7 30 (6.01%) Java Developer
8 27 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 24 (4.81%) Architect
10 20 (4.01%) Senior Java Developer
10 20 (4.01%) Software Developer
11 17 (3.41%) Lead Developer
12 16 (3.21%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.21%) Product Manager
13 15 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.81%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (2.81%) Java Pricing Developer
14 14 (2.81%) Pricing Developer
15 13 (2.61%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (27.45%) React
1 137 (27.45%) Spring
2 133 (26.65%) HTML
3 130 (26.05%) CSS
4 119 (23.85%) Spring Boot
5 104 (20.84%) Kafka
6 89 (17.84%) JPA
7 87 (17.43%) Redux
8 67 (13.43%) .NET
8 67 (13.43%) Hibernate
9 47 (9.42%) REST
10 37 (7.41%) Node.js
11 30 (6.01%) RESTful
12 29 (5.81%) Sass
13 28 (5.61%) CSS3
13 28 (5.61%) HTML5
14 23 (4.61%) AngularJS
15 21 (4.21%) Jest
16 19 (3.81%) ASP.NET
17 14 (2.81%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 119 (23.85%) Product Ownership
2 102 (20.44%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (4.61%) Public Cloud
4 22 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.41%) Mobile App
5 18 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 15 (3.01%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.61%) Credit Derivative
8 13 (2.61%) Security Posture
9 11 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.80%) Cyber Security Posture
10 9 (1.80%) GNSS
10 9 (1.80%) Housing Association
10 9 (1.80%) Self-Driving Car
11 8 (1.60%) NHS
12 7 (1.40%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.20%) EPoS
13 6 (1.20%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.02%) Linux
2 17 (3.41%) Unix
3 9 (1.80%) Android
3 9 (1.80%) Windows
4 8 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.00%) Rocky
6 2 (0.40%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (59.12%) Agile
2 241 (48.30%) Software Engineering
3 208 (41.68%) DevOps
4 181 (36.27%) CI/CD
5 148 (29.66%) Test Automation
6 141 (28.26%) Microservices
7 123 (24.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 114 (22.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 108 (21.64%) Mentoring
10 100 (20.04%) Front End Development
11 92 (18.44%) Containerisation
12 90 (18.04%) TDD
13 86 (17.23%) Performance Optimisation
14 75 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
15 73 (14.63%) Clean Code
16 48 (9.62%) Computer Science
16 48 (9.62%) Scrum
16 48 (9.62%) Software Testing
17 47 (9.42%) Roadmaps
18 42 (8.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 198 (39.68%) Java
2 177 (35.47%) JavaScript
3 175 (35.07%) SQL
4 86 (17.23%) Python
5 67 (13.43%) C#
6 53 (10.62%) TypeScript
7 40 (8.02%) C++
8 26 (5.21%) C
9 24 (4.81%) PHP
10 20 (4.01%) Bash
11 18 (3.61%) Go
12 12 (2.40%) PowerShell
13 11 (2.20%) T-SQL
14 10 (2.00%) Fortran
15 8 (1.60%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.60%) Scala
15 8 (1.60%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.20%) Clojure
16 6 (1.20%) Objective-C
16 6 (1.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 87 (17.43%) Degree
2 38 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 31 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.81%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.80%) PhD
7 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.80%) CISSP
9 4 (0.80%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.40%) PMP
11 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (22.65%) QA
2 38 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (3.61%) GDPR
5 13 (2.61%) NIST
6 11 (2.20%) PMO
7 6 (1.20%) NCSC
8 4 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.60%) PMBOK
10 2 (0.40%) GRC
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.20%) CDISC
11 1 (0.20%) COBIT
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 135 (27.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (28.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.61%) Terraform
3 14 (2.81%) Ansible
4 5 (1.00%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.40%) Grafana
5 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 83 (16.63%) Solace
2 50 (10.02%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.01%) Google
4 20 (4.01%) Oracle
5 13 (2.61%) IBM
6 8 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.40%) SAP
8 5 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.00%) OpenLink
8 5 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.00%) Xamarin
9 4 (0.80%) Intel
9 4 (0.80%) Splunk
10 3 (0.60%) Databricks
10 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.60%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.60%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.40%) Guidewire