SDLC Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 80 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 +7
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 934 1,307 4,182
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.34% 3.98% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 4.15% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 461 1,039 2,268
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +0.81% +7.83%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.72% +4.17%

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 24,720 31,469 76,283
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.48% 95.89% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,624 23,346 43,834
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

SDLC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SDLC trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDLC
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SDLC over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 46 (4.93%) WebLogic
2 24 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.96%) nginx
5 6 (0.64%) Apache
5 6 (0.64%) Confluence
6 5 (0.54%) CMS
7 4 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.32%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) GemFire
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (5.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (2.57%) Endur
3 6 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.54%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.21%) SAP MII
5 2 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.11%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.11%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 309 (33.08%) Azure
2 236 (25.27%) AWS
3 82 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (6.53%) SaaS
5 50 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
6 46 (4.93%) Amazon SQS
7 37 (3.96%) GCP
8 29 (3.10%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.89%) PaaS
10 21 (2.25%) Serverless
11 15 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.28%) IaaS
13 12 (1.28%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.07%) GitHub
15 9 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (0.86%) Entra ID
16 8 (0.86%) Power Automate
17 7 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.14%) DNS
1 48 (5.14%) TCP/IP
2 46 (4.93%) BGP
2 46 (4.93%) SSL
3 5 (0.54%) AMQP
3 5 (0.54%) Network Security
4 4 (0.43%) Internet
5 2 (0.21%) 4G
5 2 (0.21%) 5G
5 2 (0.21%) HTTP
5 2 (0.21%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) Firewall
6 1 (0.11%) MQTT
6 1 (0.11%) NGFW
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (11.99%) Relational Database
2 93 (9.96%) SQL Server
3 75 (8.03%) RDBMS
4 49 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (5.14%) Oracle Database
6 40 (4.28%) MySQL
7 17 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.82%) Power BI
8 16 (1.71%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.07%) Redis
10 9 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.86%) Big Data
12 7 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.64%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.43%) Couchbase
15 4 (0.43%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 82 (8.78%) JIRA
2 47 (5.03%) Git
3 27 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.71%) Maven
5 15 (1.61%) Postman
6 13 (1.39%) Selenium
7 12 (1.28%) JUnit
8 10 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.07%) GitLab
8 10 (1.07%) SpecFlow
9 8 (0.86%) JMeter
10 7 (0.75%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.64%) SoapUI
11 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.64%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.54%) Mocha
12 5 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.43%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 234 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 138 (14.78%) Finance
3 102 (10.92%) Retail
4 95 (10.17%) Legal
5 79 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (6.00%) Marketing
7 53 (5.67%) Aerospace
8 34 (3.64%) Games
9 30 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (3.10%) Public Sector
11 26 (2.78%) Law
12 25 (2.68%) Banking
13 17 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.82%) Publishing
14 16 (1.71%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.28%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.07%) Electronics
17 9 (0.96%) Aviation
18 8 (0.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 206 (22.06%) Developer
2 175 (18.74%) Senior
3 147 (15.74%) Lead
4 142 (15.20%) Project Manager
5 129 (13.81%) Software Engineer
6 111 (11.88%) Analyst
6 111 (11.88%) Presales Manager
7 94 (10.06%) Business Analyst
8 77 (8.24%) Architect
9 74 (7.92%) Senior Developer
10 59 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 59 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
11 52 (5.57%) .NET Developer
12 48 (5.14%) Lead Architect
13 47 (5.03%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 43 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
15 42 (4.50%) Team Leader
16 36 (3.85%) Lead Business Analyst
17 35 (3.75%) Software Developer
18 34 (3.64%) Business Analyst Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (19.06%) .NET
2 106 (11.35%) React
3 85 (9.10%) AngularJS
4 72 (7.71%) Spring Boot
5 58 (6.21%) ASP.NET
6 53 (5.67%) .NET Framework
7 51 (5.46%) RabbitMQ
7 51 (5.46%) RESTful
8 48 (5.14%) Spring
9 46 (4.93%) HTML
10 45 (4.82%) .NET Core
11 43 (4.60%) CSS
12 36 (3.85%) Node.js
13 28 (3.00%) Vue
14 27 (2.89%) ASP.NET Web API
14 27 (2.89%) Web Services
15 25 (2.68%) REST
16 20 (2.14%) Entity Framework
17 18 (1.93%) SOAP
18 17 (1.82%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
2 57 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 53 (5.67%) Public Cloud
4 29 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.57%) Swaptions
7 18 (1.93%) Mobile App
8 17 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
9 16 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.39%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.18%) IoT
13 9 (0.96%) Social Network
14 8 (0.86%) NHS
15 7 (0.75%) FMCG
15 7 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 128 (13.70%) Linux
2 50 (5.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (3.43%) Windows
4 9 (0.96%) Unix
5 8 (0.86%) Android
6 7 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.32%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (58.99%) Agile
2 245 (26.23%) Project Management
3 228 (24.41%) DevOps
4 220 (23.55%) Software Engineering
5 197 (21.09%) Actionable Insight
6 165 (17.67%) Scrum
7 162 (17.34%) CI/CD
8 155 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
9 152 (16.27%) Project Delivery
10 130 (13.92%) Software Delivery
11 122 (13.06%) Coaching
11 122 (13.06%) Presales
11 122 (13.06%) Software Testing
12 119 (12.74%) Agile Project Management
13 115 (12.31%) Kanban
14 111 (11.88%) Collaborative Working
15 99 (10.60%) Full Stack Development
16 97 (10.39%) Business Analysis
17 95 (10.17%) Process Improvement
18 93 (9.96%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 184 (19.70%) C#
2 165 (17.67%) SQL
3 160 (17.13%) JavaScript
4 132 (14.13%) Java
5 98 (10.49%) Python
6 49 (5.25%) C++
7 41 (4.39%) C
8 33 (3.53%) TypeScript
9 30 (3.21%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.21%) VB
10 19 (2.03%) PHP
10 19 (2.03%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.82%) Groovy
12 11 (1.18%) Go
13 8 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.75%) Rust
15 6 (0.64%) Bash
15 6 (0.64%) Bicep
16 5 (0.54%) Scala
17 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 165 (17.67%) Degree
2 150 (16.06%) Security Cleared
3 71 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 59 (6.32%) Azure Certification
5 56 (6.00%) DV Cleared
6 48 (5.14%) AWS Certification
6 48 (5.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.64%) GIAC
12 4 (0.43%) CISSP
13 3 (0.32%) CISM
13 3 (0.32%) ISEB
13 3 (0.32%) PMP
13 3 (0.32%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.21%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (17.13%) QA
2 9 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (0.86%) PMO
4 7 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.64%) ISO 9000
6 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.54%) GDPR
7 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.32%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) COBIT
9 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.21%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.11%) AQAP
10 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.11%) TickIT
System Software
1 120 (12.85%) Docker
2 16 (1.71%) Firmware
3 9 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.11%) GridGain
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 83 (8.89%) Terraform
3 49 (5.25%) Ansible
4 13 (1.39%) Grafana
5 6 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.54%) Kibana
7 2 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.21%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Packer
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 80 (8.57%) Oracle
3 48 (5.14%) Sparx
4 24 (2.57%) OpenLink
4 24 (2.57%) Sybase
4 24 (2.57%) TIBCO
5 22 (2.36%) Google
6 15 (1.61%) BT
7 14 (1.50%) SAP
8 8 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.43%) Facebook
10 4 (0.43%) Splunk
10 4 (0.43%) Veracode
11 3 (0.32%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.32%) Samsung
12 2 (0.21%) Databricks
12 2 (0.21%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.21%) Finsemble
12 2 (0.21%) Guidewire