SDLC Jobs in England

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 45 65
Rank change year-on-year -74 +20 +3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,048 5,384 7,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.37% 6.10% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 6.38% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 2,464 3,714
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,828 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -6.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,450 £96,250 £98,355
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.48% -2.56% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,550 84,427 129,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.14% 95.61% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 53,945 50,142 73,031
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in England.

Salary trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in England

SDLC
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -66 579 £80,000 +3.23% 241
North of England -82 412 £57,500 - 121
South East -53 383 £57,500 - 117
South West -31 265 £58,750 +6.82% 59
North West -71 252 £60,000 +9.09% 73
Midlands -97 243 £57,500 +4.55% 83
East of England -48 146 £50,000 -13.04% 33
West Midlands -94 146 £57,500 - 50
Yorkshire -77 114 £50,000 -13.04% 35
East Midlands -69 96 £50,000 -9.09% 33
North East -2 46 £61,250 +6.52% 14
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 49 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (2.20%) nginx
3 39 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 36 (1.76%) Camunda
5 31 (1.51%) Apache
6 30 (1.46%) WebLogic
7 29 (1.42%) Confluence
8 24 (1.17%) Apache Spark
9 18 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
10 16 (0.78%) SAS
11 9 (0.44%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.39%) Apache Pig
13 5 (0.24%) CMS
13 5 (0.24%) OpenEdge
14 4 (0.20%) Drupal
14 4 (0.20%) IIS
15 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
16 2 (0.098%) GlassFish
16 2 (0.098%) JCAPS
16 2 (0.098%) WinCC
Applications
1 61 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.73%) SPSS
7 6 (0.29%) Simulink
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.20%) Endur
2 30 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.29%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.20%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.20%) Relativity
8 3 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.098%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.098%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.098%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.098%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.098%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 1 (0.049%) SAP WM
10 1 (0.049%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.049%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 544 (26.56%) Azure
2 443 (21.63%) AWS
3 147 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (5.91%) SaaS
5 103 (5.03%) GCP
6 73 (3.56%) GitHub
7 67 (3.27%) Power Platform
8 64 (3.13%) Serverless
9 48 (2.34%) IBM Cloud
10 47 (2.29%) PaaS
11 46 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
13 43 (2.10%) Amazon S3
14 38 (1.86%) OpenShift
14 38 (1.86%) PowerApps
15 35 (1.71%) Amazon Kinesis
16 34 (1.66%) IaaS
17 32 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
18 31 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
19 30 (1.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 40 (1.95%) DNS
3 30 (1.46%) SSL
4 28 (1.37%) BGP
5 19 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (0.78%) Firewall
6 16 (0.78%) Network Security
6 16 (0.78%) VPN
6 16 (0.78%) Wireless
7 15 (0.73%) Internet
8 14 (0.68%) Bluetooth
9 11 (0.54%) NGFW
10 10 (0.49%) VoIP
11 8 (0.39%) Broadband
12 7 (0.34%) RS-485
13 6 (0.29%) AMQP
13 6 (0.29%) ZigBee
14 5 (0.24%) Multicast
14 5 (0.24%) RS-232
15 3 (0.15%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 172 (8.40%) Relational Database
3 111 (5.42%) RDBMS
4 95 (4.64%) MySQL
5 75 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
6 69 (3.37%) Oracle Database
6 69 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (3.27%) NoSQL
8 61 (2.98%) MongoDB
9 54 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
9 54 (2.64%) Big Data
10 47 (2.29%) Power BI
11 35 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (1.56%) Metadata
13 29 (1.42%) Redis
14 22 (1.07%) Data Lake
15 20 (0.98%) Apache Hive
15 20 (0.98%) Hadoop
16 18 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.73%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 185 (9.03%) JIRA
2 179 (8.74%) Git
3 94 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.95%) Postman
5 39 (1.90%) Visual Studio
6 38 (1.86%) GitLab
7 30 (1.46%) JUnit
8 24 (1.17%) Selenium
9 23 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (0.93%) Maven
12 18 (0.88%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.83%) Bitbucket
14 16 (0.78%) NUnit
15 14 (0.68%) LabVIEW
16 13 (0.63%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.63%) TeamCity
17 12 (0.59%) Eclipse
18 11 (0.54%) Mocha
18 11 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 554 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 387 (18.90%) Finance
3 258 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 122 (5.96%) Marketing
6 111 (5.42%) Banking
7 86 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 86 (4.20%) Retail
8 81 (3.96%) Aerospace
9 79 (3.86%) Legal
10 70 (3.42%) Law
11 59 (2.88%) Games
12 44 (2.15%) Electronics
13 41 (2.00%) Manufacturing
14 36 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 32 (1.56%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.22%) Retail Banking
18 19 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 541 (26.42%) Developer
2 356 (17.38%) Senior
3 259 (12.65%) Lead
4 248 (12.11%) Software Engineer
5 195 (9.52%) Project Manager
6 165 (8.06%) Analyst
7 154 (7.52%) Architect
8 117 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 113 (5.52%) .NET Developer
10 109 (5.32%) Software Developer
11 102 (4.98%) Business Analyst
12 91 (4.44%) Java Developer
12 91 (4.44%) Presales Manager
13 85 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 83 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
15 76 (3.71%) Technical Leader
16 69 (3.37%) Software Manager
17 67 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
18 63 (3.08%) C# Developer
19 61 (2.98%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (19.92%) .NET
2 209 (10.21%) React
3 175 (8.54%) AngularJS
4 146 (7.13%) Spring Boot
5 134 (6.54%) .NET Framework
6 128 (6.25%) Spring
7 120 (5.86%) .NET Core
8 119 (5.81%) ASP.NET
9 112 (5.47%) REST
10 109 (5.32%) HTML
11 103 (5.03%) Node.js
12 100 (4.88%) JSON
13 99 (4.83%) CSS
14 86 (4.20%) Kafka
15 84 (4.10%) RESTful
16 78 (3.81%) Web Services
17 70 (3.42%) Vue
18 68 (3.32%) Entity Framework
19 65 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
20 60 (2.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 102 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
3 100 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 82 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 74 (3.61%) Mobile App
6 67 (3.27%) Cloud Native
7 64 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 60 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
9 55 (2.69%) Algorithms
9 55 (2.69%) Blockchain
10 48 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 47 (2.29%) Virtual Team
12 45 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
12 45 (2.20%) e-Learning
12 45 (2.20%) Swaptions
13 32 (1.56%) Social Network
14 31 (1.51%) Client/Server
15 25 (1.22%) IoT
16 22 (1.07%) Data Structures
16 22 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 185 (9.03%) Linux
2 74 (3.61%) Windows
3 32 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (1.51%) Android
5 19 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.93%) Unix
6 17 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.24%) ThreadX
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.098%) VMS
10 2 (0.098%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.098%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.049%) Debian
11 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,171 (57.18%) Agile
2 539 (26.32%) DevOps
3 520 (25.39%) Software Engineering
4 465 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
5 412 (20.12%) Project Management
6 342 (16.70%) CI/CD
7 291 (14.21%) Scrum
8 274 (13.38%) Full Stack Development
9 259 (12.65%) Computer Science
10 256 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 254 (12.40%) Roadmaps
12 223 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 211 (10.30%) Microservices
14 200 (9.77%) Project Delivery
15 195 (9.52%) Test Automation
16 174 (8.50%) Actionable Insight
17 167 (8.15%) Kanban
18 160 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
19 156 (7.62%) Data Modelling
20 142 (6.93%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 464 (22.66%) Java
2 388 (18.95%) C#
3 373 (18.21%) SQL
4 357 (17.43%) JavaScript
5 266 (12.99%) Python
6 112 (5.47%) C++
7 93 (4.54%) C
8 87 (4.25%) TypeScript
9 74 (3.61%) PHP
10 67 (3.27%) VB
11 58 (2.83%) Kotlin
12 55 (2.69%) Bash
13 49 (2.39%) Go
14 46 (2.25%) PowerShell
15 37 (1.81%) Scala
16 36 (1.76%) Lua
17 22 (1.07%) RPG
18 21 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 20 (0.98%) Perl
20 15 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 390 (19.04%) Degree
2 217 (10.60%) Security Cleared
3 148 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 98 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 63 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 48 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 36 (1.76%) PMI Certification
9 35 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (1.12%) ISTQB
12 21 (1.03%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.93%) ISEB
14 18 (0.88%) PMP
15 16 (0.78%) CISSP
16 12 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.59%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.44%) HNC
18 9 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (9.96%) QA
2 45 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 32 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.37%) PMO
5 20 (0.98%) NIST
6 12 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 12 (0.59%) SLA
7 10 (0.49%) ISO 9000
8 9 (0.44%) ISO 13485
9 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.39%) IEC 62304
10 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.29%) TickIT
12 5 (0.24%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.24%) GDPR
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 26262
14 2 (0.098%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 1 (0.049%) HIPAA
System Software
1 270 (13.18%) Docker
2 40 (1.95%) Firmware
3 22 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 18 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.88%) HDFS
5 16 (0.78%) vSphere
6 14 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.049%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 215 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 152 (7.42%) Terraform
3 86 (4.20%) Ansible
4 15 (0.73%) Grafana
5 13 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.44%) Puppet
8 7 (0.34%) Kibana
9 6 (0.29%) Argo
10 5 (0.24%) Control-M
10 5 (0.24%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.20%) Packer
12 3 (0.15%) Salt
12 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.098%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 252 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.37%) Oracle
3 75 (3.66%) Google
4 67 (3.27%) IBM
5 49 (2.39%) Red Hat
6 46 (2.25%) Sybase
7 45 (2.20%) OpenLink
7 45 (2.20%) TIBCO
8 40 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.86%) SAP
10 30 (1.46%) Sparx
11 28 (1.37%) Databricks
12 18 (0.88%) VMware
13 15 (0.73%) Citrix
14 11 (0.54%) BT
14 11 (0.54%) Nintex
15 10 (0.49%) Apple
15 10 (0.49%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.49%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.49%) ServiceNow