Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 47 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +7
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 4,533 6,239 8,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.60% 6.01% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 6.29% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,564 2,985 4,220
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,124
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -2.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London +5 3,843 £55,000 -4.35% 435
Scotland +23 2,235 £65,000 -3.89% 47
England -67 2,080 £62,500 +2.63% 592
Work from Home -8 1,181 £60,750 -2.80% 319
London -70 588 £80,000 +3.23% 223
North of England -75 420 £57,500 - 102
South East -54 381 £57,500 - 83
South West -19 300 £57,500 +4.55% 58
North West -62 258 £60,000 +16.50% 60
Midlands -95 232 £57,500 +4.55% 89
East of England -45 145 £50,000 -13.04% 37
West Midlands -102 141 £57,500 - 51
Yorkshire -72 116 £50,000 -13.04% 32
Wales +24 93 £50,000 +11.11% 14
East Midlands -70 93 £50,000 -9.09% 38
North East +3 46 £61,250 +6.52% 10
Northern Ireland +35 40 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Isle of Man - 3 - -

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 562 (12.40%) Apache Spark
2 143 (3.15%) Apache
3 135 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.16%) FileNet
5 56 (1.24%) Camunda
6 55 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 49 (1.08%) WebLogic
8 45 (0.99%) nginx
9 39 (0.86%) SharePoint
10 36 (0.79%) Confluence
11 22 (0.49%) GemFire
12 17 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 16 (0.35%) SAS
14 11 (0.24%) CICS
15 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 8 (0.18%) Apache Pig
16 8 (0.18%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.15%) IIS
18 5 (0.11%) CMS
18 5 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 68 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.71%) UserZoom
4 30 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.33%) SPSS
8 6 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 44 (0.97%) Endur
3 14 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.088%) Relativity
8 3 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.066%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.044%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.044%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.044%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.044%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.044%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.044%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 1 (0.022%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.022%) Maximo
10 1 (0.022%) Primavera
10 1 (0.022%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,614 (35.61%) AWS
2 737 (16.26%) Azure
3 212 (4.68%) GCP
4 166 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
5 160 (3.53%) SaaS
6 144 (3.18%) Amazon S3
7 135 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
8 131 (2.89%) GitHub
9 119 (2.63%) Serverless
10 99 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
11 94 (2.07%) Datadog
12 82 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
12 82 (1.81%) Power Platform
13 77 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
14 70 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
15 68 (1.50%) PaaS
16 61 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
17 57 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
18 54 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 87 (1.92%) TCP/IP
2 86 (1.90%) DNS
3 82 (1.81%) Kerberos
4 48 (1.06%) SSL
5 46 (1.01%) BGP
6 39 (0.86%) HTTP
7 29 (0.64%) DHCP
8 21 (0.46%) Firewall
9 19 (0.42%) Internet
9 19 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (0.40%) DSL
10 18 (0.40%) Network Security
10 18 (0.40%) VPN
11 16 (0.35%) Wireless
12 14 (0.31%) Bluetooth
13 13 (0.29%) NGFW
14 10 (0.22%) MQTT
14 10 (0.22%) VoIP
15 8 (0.18%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.18%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 726 (16.02%) NoSQL
2 508 (11.21%) Big Data
3 308 (6.79%) Relational Database
4 256 (5.65%) SQL Server
5 212 (4.68%) Hadoop
6 153 (3.38%) Apache Hive
7 148 (3.26%) MongoDB
8 145 (3.20%) RDBMS
9 143 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
10 129 (2.85%) MySQL
11 121 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
12 102 (2.25%) HBase
13 94 (2.07%) Metadata
14 93 (2.05%) Oracle Database
15 85 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
16 84 (1.85%) Data Lake
17 76 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
18 75 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
19 60 (1.32%) Power BI
20 51 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 391 (8.63%) Jenkins
2 390 (8.60%) Git
3 232 (5.12%) JUnit
4 216 (4.77%) JIRA
5 105 (2.32%) Jasmine
6 90 (1.99%) Selenium
7 88 (1.94%) Cypress.io
8 87 (1.92%) Maven
9 86 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
10 81 (1.79%) Bitbucket
11 67 (1.48%) Artifactory
12 66 (1.46%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
13 60 (1.32%) Protractor
14 52 (1.15%) Postman
15 51 (1.13%) Mockito
16 46 (1.01%) Visual Studio
17 44 (0.97%) GitLab
18 40 (0.88%) JMeter
19 34 (0.75%) Gradle
General
1 2,578 (56.87%) Finance
2 2,282 (50.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,163 (47.72%) Law
4 1,223 (26.98%) Marketing
5 858 (18.93%) Social Skills
6 685 (15.11%) Legal
7 500 (11.03%) Banking
8 342 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
9 339 (7.48%) Investment Banking
10 250 (5.52%) Financial Institution
11 196 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
12 103 (2.27%) Public Sector
13 86 (1.90%) Aerospace
13 86 (1.90%) Games
13 86 (1.90%) Retail
14 75 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 63 (1.39%) Electronics
16 58 (1.28%) Private Banking
17 55 (1.21%) Manufacturing
18 37 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,134 (47.08%) Software Engineer
2 938 (20.69%) Lead
3 727 (16.04%) Java Engineer
4 711 (15.68%) Java Software Engineer
5 695 (15.33%) Developer
6 656 (14.47%) Senior
7 640 (14.12%) Lead Software Engineer
8 368 (8.12%) Full Stack Engineer
9 352 (7.77%) Python Engineer
10 347 (7.65%) Big Data Engineer
10 347 (7.65%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 337 (7.43%) Python Software Engineer
12 314 (6.93%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 305 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
13 305 (6.73%) Project Manager
14 299 (6.60%) AWS Software Engineer
15 292 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
16 248 (5.47%) Lead Java Engineer
17 229 (5.05%) Data Engineer
18 228 (5.03%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (15.27%) Spring
2 684 (15.09%) React
3 556 (12.27%) AngularJS
4 464 (10.24%) .NET
5 443 (9.77%) Spring Boot
6 401 (8.85%) Kafka
7 377 (8.32%) HTML
8 309 (6.82%) JSON
9 304 (6.71%) Node.js
10 303 (6.68%) CSS
11 272 (6.00%) RESTful
12 260 (5.74%) J2EE
13 237 (5.23%) Web Services
14 231 (5.10%) REST
15 227 (5.01%) Hibernate
16 204 (4.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 184 (4.06%) PySpark
18 176 (3.88%) XML
19 173 (3.82%) JMS
20 161 (3.55%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 789 (17.41%) Algorithms
2 783 (17.27%) Cloud Native
3 307 (6.77%) Public Cloud
4 225 (4.96%) Management Information System
5 220 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 184 (4.06%) Onboarding
7 125 (2.76%) Reference Data
8 113 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
9 112 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 109 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 87 (1.92%) Market Risk
12 81 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
13 74 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
13 74 (1.63%) Mobile App
14 65 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 65 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
15 63 (1.39%) Blockchain
16 53 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 48 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
18 45 (0.99%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 319 (7.04%) Linux
2 153 (3.38%) Unix
3 78 (1.72%) Windows
4 62 (1.37%) Android
5 50 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
9 7 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.11%) ThreadX
11 4 (0.088%) VxWorks
12 3 (0.066%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.066%) VMS
12 3 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.044%) Solaris
13 2 (0.044%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.044%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.044%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.022%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,493 (77.06%) Agile
2 2,656 (58.59%) Software Engineering
3 2,189 (48.29%) CI/CD
4 1,767 (38.98%) Operational Stability
5 1,360 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,305 (28.79%) Machine Learning
7 1,236 (27.27%) Community of Practice
8 972 (21.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 844 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
10 816 (18.00%) Visualisation
11 698 (15.40%) Risk Management
12 692 (15.27%) Microservices
13 656 (14.47%) DevOps
14 643 (14.18%) Full Stack Development
15 554 (12.22%) Computer Science
16 553 (12.20%) Decision-Making
17 547 (12.07%) Project Management
18 507 (11.18%) Continuous Delivery
19 484 (10.68%) Test Automation
20 452 (9.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,939 (42.78%) Java
2 1,424 (31.41%) SQL
3 1,122 (24.75%) Python
4 673 (14.85%) JavaScript
5 490 (10.81%) C#
6 359 (7.92%) Scala
7 300 (6.62%) TypeScript
8 160 (3.53%) PL/SQL
9 136 (3.00%) C++
10 135 (2.98%) Go
11 127 (2.80%) C
12 83 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 76 (1.68%) PHP
14 67 (1.48%) VB
15 65 (1.43%) Prolog
15 65 (1.43%) SPARQL
16 61 (1.35%) Bash
17 56 (1.24%) PowerShell
18 49 (1.08%) T-SQL
19 38 (0.84%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 491 (10.83%) Degree
2 276 (6.09%) Security Cleared
3 202 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 120 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 94 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 89 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 78 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 75 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 71 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 45 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 31 (0.68%) CISSP
12 27 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 25 (0.55%) CISM
14 23 (0.51%) PMP
15 22 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.46%) DBS Check
17 18 (0.40%) ISEB
18 13 (0.29%) HNC
19 12 (0.26%) HND
19 12 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (4.68%) QA
2 77 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 73 (1.61%) SLA
4 61 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.10%) PMO
6 37 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (0.75%) NIST
8 32 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.38%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.31%) ISO 9000
11 11 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 8 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.18%) IEC 62304
13 7 (0.15%) COBIT
13 7 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.13%) TickIT
14 6 (0.13%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.11%) GDPR
15 5 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 339 (7.48%) Docker
2 120 (2.65%) HDFS
3 87 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 57 (1.26%) Firmware
5 22 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
6 18 (0.40%) vSphere
7 16 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
8 13 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 6 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.022%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 573 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 399 (8.80%) Terraform
3 160 (3.53%) Grafana
4 90 (1.99%) Ansible
5 74 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 34 (0.75%) Kibana
7 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
8 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.22%) Puppet
10 7 (0.15%) Control-M
10 7 (0.15%) Graphite
11 6 (0.13%) Argo
11 6 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
12 5 (0.11%) Packer
13 4 (0.088%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.066%) Salt
14 3 (0.066%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 533 (11.76%) Oracle
2 291 (6.42%) Microsoft
3 259 (5.71%) Databricks
4 152 (3.35%) Splunk
5 138 (3.04%) Google
6 134 (2.96%) Dynatrace
7 91 (2.01%) Informatica
8 82 (1.81%) Cloudera
9 73 (1.61%) IBM
10 63 (1.39%) Sybase
11 57 (1.26%) Alteryx
12 49 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 48 (1.06%) Sparx
14 44 (0.97%) OpenLink
14 44 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 44 (0.97%) SAP
14 44 (0.97%) TIBCO
15 34 (0.75%) Atlassian
16 32 (0.71%) Qualtrics
17 20 (0.44%) Pega