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 job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 81 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 -20 +15
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 1,208 1,529 4,163
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.48% 3.97% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 4.13% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 654 1,164 2,240
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,400 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £47,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £96,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -2.72% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,295 36,978 72,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,528 26,243 42,080
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 3 June 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 (3.81%) WebLogic
2 41 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.66%) Apache
4 8 (0.66%) Confluence
4 8 (0.66%) nginx
5 7 (0.58%) SAS
6 5 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.25%) CMS
7 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.083%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.083%) Appian
9 1 (0.083%) GemFire
9 1 (0.083%) IIS
9 1 (0.083%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.083%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 20 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.50%) SPSS
7 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (3.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 38 (3.15%) Endur
3 7 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.41%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.25%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 3 (0.25%) Relativity
7 2 (0.17%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.083%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.083%) Ringtail
8 1 (0.083%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 394 (32.62%) Azure
2 267 (22.10%) AWS
3 109 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
4 89 (7.37%) SaaS
5 52 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
6 50 (4.14%) GCP
7 46 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (3.23%) PaaS
9 31 (2.57%) GitHub
10 30 (2.48%) Power Platform
11 27 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (2.07%) Serverless
13 22 (1.82%) IaaS
14 19 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (0.99%) Entra ID
16 12 (0.99%) PowerApps
17 11 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (0.83%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 51 (4.22%) DNS
3 46 (3.81%) BGP
3 46 (3.81%) SSL
4 9 (0.75%) Internet
5 8 (0.66%) Network Security
5 8 (0.66%) VoIP
6 7 (0.58%) HTTP
6 7 (0.58%) MQTT
6 7 (0.58%) NGFW
6 7 (0.58%) VPN
7 6 (0.50%) AMQP
8 5 (0.41%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.41%) RS-232
8 5 (0.41%) RS-485
8 5 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.41%) Wireless
8 5 (0.41%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.33%) Firewall
9 4 (0.33%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (13.74%) SQL Server
2 139 (11.51%) Relational Database
3 88 (7.28%) RDBMS
4 57 (4.72%) MySQL
5 48 (3.97%) Oracle Database
6 47 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.57%) Power BI
8 18 (1.49%) Redis
9 17 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (1.08%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.91%) Big Data
13 10 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.75%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.66%) Couchbase
15 8 (0.66%) MS Access
15 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (0.50%) EDRMS
16 6 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 103 (8.53%) JIRA
2 60 (4.97%) Git
3 35 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.82%) Maven
5 20 (1.66%) JUnit
6 17 (1.41%) Postman
7 14 (1.16%) GitLab
8 12 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (0.91%) Selenium
10 10 (0.83%) Eclipse
11 9 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.75%) NUnit
11 9 (0.75%) SoapUI
11 9 (0.75%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.58%) JMeter
13 6 (0.50%) Mocha
13 6 (0.50%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.41%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.41%) MSTest
General
1 280 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 184 (15.23%) Finance
3 102 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.95%) Retail
5 79 (6.54%) Legal
6 77 (6.37%) Marketing
7 65 (5.38%) Aerospace
8 53 (4.39%) Banking
9 51 (4.22%) Games
10 36 (2.98%) Law
11 31 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (2.40%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.24%) Electronics
14 23 (1.90%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.66%) Publishing
16 19 (1.57%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (1.08%) Aviation
19 13 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 297 (24.59%) Developer
2 212 (17.55%) Project Manager
3 207 (17.14%) Senior
4 170 (14.07%) Lead
5 163 (13.49%) Software Engineer
6 159 (13.16%) Presales Manager
7 111 (9.19%) Analyst
8 96 (7.95%) Architect
9 93 (7.70%) Senior Developer
10 86 (7.12%) .NET Developer
11 84 (6.95%) Business Analyst
12 67 (5.55%) DevOps Engineer
13 66 (5.46%) Software Developer
14 60 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
15 48 (3.97%) Lead Architect
16 47 (3.89%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 44 (3.64%) Java Developer
17 44 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
18 42 (3.48%) C# Developer
19 39 (3.23%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (22.68%) .NET
2 138 (11.42%) AngularJS
3 131 (10.84%) React
4 104 (8.61%) ASP.NET
5 94 (7.78%) .NET Framework
6 88 (7.28%) .NET Core
6 88 (7.28%) Spring Boot
7 79 (6.54%) Spring
8 63 (5.22%) HTML
9 62 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
9 62 (5.13%) RESTful
10 58 (4.80%) CSS
11 53 (4.39%) Entity Framework
11 53 (4.39%) REST
12 52 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
13 51 (4.22%) ASP.NET MVC
14 41 (3.39%) Web Services
15 40 (3.31%) Node.js
16 38 (3.15%) Vue
17 37 (3.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
2 66 (5.46%) Public Cloud
3 65 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
4 38 (3.15%) Swaptions
5 35 (2.90%) Social Network
6 31 (2.57%) Cloud Native
7 29 (2.40%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 24 (1.99%) Client/Server
10 21 (1.74%) Distributed Applications
11 19 (1.57%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.49%) Management Information System
13 16 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.08%) IoT
16 12 (0.99%) Onboarding
16 12 (0.99%) Private Cloud
17 11 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 139 (11.51%) Linux
2 51 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 44 (3.64%) Windows
4 13 (1.08%) Unix
5 9 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
6 7 (0.58%) Android
7 6 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.41%) ThreadX
9 4 (0.33%) VxWorks
10 3 (0.25%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (62.42%) Agile
2 320 (26.49%) Project Management
3 299 (24.75%) DevOps
4 297 (24.59%) Software Engineering
5 259 (21.44%) Actionable Insight
6 223 (18.46%) Project Delivery
7 220 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
8 194 (16.06%) Scrum
9 186 (15.40%) CI/CD
10 182 (15.07%) Software Delivery
11 180 (14.90%) Presales
12 179 (14.82%) Agile Project Management
13 167 (13.82%) Full Stack Development
14 141 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
15 138 (11.42%) Kanban
16 106 (8.77%) Microservices
17 99 (8.20%) Software Testing
18 98 (8.11%) Mentoring
19 97 (8.03%) Coaching
20 94 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 257 (21.27%) C#
2 227 (18.79%) JavaScript
2 227 (18.79%) SQL
3 183 (15.15%) Java
4 113 (9.35%) Python
5 64 (5.30%) TypeScript
6 56 (4.64%) C
7 49 (4.06%) VB
8 42 (3.48%) C++
9 32 (2.65%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.66%) PHP
12 17 (1.41%) Groovy
13 11 (0.91%) Bash
13 11 (0.91%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.91%) RPG
14 10 (0.83%) Go
15 5 (0.41%) Bicep
16 4 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 180 (14.90%) Security Cleared
2 177 (14.65%) Degree
3 84 (6.95%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 59 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 50 (4.14%) AWS Certification
7 48 (3.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 45 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.82%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.82%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.41%) DBS Check
11 16 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.91%) ISEB
13 11 (0.91%) PMP
14 10 (0.83%) CISSP
14 10 (0.83%) GIAC
15 6 (0.50%) CISM
15 6 (0.50%) SANS
16 5 (0.41%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.58%) QA
2 14 (1.16%) PMO
3 12 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (0.83%) NIST
5 6 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.50%) COBIT
5 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.50%) ISO 9000
5 6 (0.50%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 4 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.33%) ISO 13485
6 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.25%) GDPR
8 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.17%) SEPA
8 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.083%) AQAP
9 1 (0.083%) TickIT
System Software
1 148 (12.25%) Docker
2 33 (2.73%) Firmware
3 17 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.83%) vSphere
5 7 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.083%) GridGain
9 1 (0.083%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 132 (10.93%) Kubernetes
2 98 (8.11%) Terraform
3 64 (5.30%) Ansible
4 17 (1.41%) Grafana
5 9 (0.75%) Kibana
6 8 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.25%) Argo
8 3 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.25%) Puppet
9 2 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.083%) Packer
Vendors
1 149 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.28%) Oracle
3 48 (3.97%) Sparx
4 38 (3.15%) OpenLink
4 38 (3.15%) Sybase
4 38 (3.15%) TIBCO
5 28 (2.32%) Google
6 23 (1.90%) SAP
7 17 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 12 (0.99%) BT
9 11 (0.91%) VMware
10 9 (0.75%) NVIDIA
11 8 (0.66%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.66%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.58%) Citrix
13 5 (0.41%) Databricks
14 4 (0.33%) Facebook
14 4 (0.33%) IBM
14 4 (0.33%) QNX
14 4 (0.33%) Splunk