SDLC Jobs in the UK excluding London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 51 63
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -5
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 3,805 3,233 3,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.01% 5.72% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 5.99% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 1,557 2,136
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,050 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -2.72% +9.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Scotland +29 2,155 £65,000 - 39
North of England -62 427 £55,000 -4.35% 89
South East -54 394 £57,500 - 69
Midlands -82 286 £55,000 -0.90% 81
South West -31 270 £57,500 - 58
North West -55 262 £60,000 +9.09% 67
West Midlands -96 156 £57,500 - 51
East of England -47 146 £50,000 -13.04% 22
East Midlands -43 129 £50,000 -9.09% 29
Yorkshire -58 119 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Wales +31 92 £50,000 +11.11% 12
North East -11 46 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Northern Ireland +21 34 £53,750 -6.52% 12
Isle of Man - 3 - -
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 517 (13.59%) Apache Spark
2 114 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (2.92%) Apache
4 98 (2.58%) FileNet
5 52 (1.37%) Camunda
6 42 (1.10%) WebLogic
7 36 (0.95%) nginx
8 28 (0.74%) SharePoint
9 22 (0.58%) Confluence
10 21 (0.55%) GemFire
11 17 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
12 11 (0.29%) CICS
13 7 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.16%) CMS
14 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.13%) OpenEdge
16 4 (0.11%) IIS
17 2 (0.053%) IBM Domino
17 2 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 58 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (0.79%) UserZoom
4 28 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.16%) Simulink
8 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.11%) CA PPM
3 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.079%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.053%) SAP MII
5 2 (0.053%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.026%) Maximo
6 1 (0.026%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.026%) Postilion
6 1 (0.026%) Primavera
6 1 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.026%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.026%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,340 (35.22%) AWS
2 535 (14.06%) Azure
3 142 (3.73%) GCP
4 133 (3.50%) Amazon S3
5 118 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
7 109 (2.86%) SaaS
8 91 (2.39%) Datadog
9 90 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
9 90 (2.37%) GitHub
10 76 (2.00%) Serverless
11 75 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
12 69 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
13 64 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
14 61 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
15 53 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 52 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
17 50 (1.31%) Power Platform
18 46 (1.21%) IBM Cloud
19 37 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.16%) Kerberos
2 49 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 40 (1.05%) BGP
3 40 (1.05%) DNS
3 40 (1.05%) SSL
4 19 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (0.42%) DSL
5 16 (0.42%) Wireless
6 14 (0.37%) Bluetooth
7 13 (0.34%) Firewall
7 13 (0.34%) Network Security
8 9 (0.24%) HTTP
8 9 (0.24%) MQTT
9 8 (0.21%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.21%) NGFW
9 8 (0.21%) Profibus
9 8 (0.21%) VPN
10 7 (0.18%) Broadband
10 7 (0.18%) Internet
10 7 (0.18%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (17.29%) NoSQL
2 425 (11.17%) Big Data
3 212 (5.57%) Relational Database
4 182 (4.78%) Hadoop
5 172 (4.52%) SQL Server
6 133 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
7 126 (3.31%) Apache Hive
8 120 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 116 (3.05%) MongoDB
10 98 (2.58%) HBase
11 97 (2.55%) MySQL
12 86 (2.26%) RDBMS
13 85 (2.23%) Oracle Database
14 82 (2.16%) Metadata
15 71 (1.87%) Data Lake
16 65 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
17 53 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
18 50 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
19 49 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
20 39 (1.02%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 329 (8.65%) Git
1 329 (8.65%) Jenkins
2 217 (5.70%) JUnit
3 174 (4.57%) JIRA
4 105 (2.76%) Jasmine
5 84 (2.21%) Bitbucket Server
6 80 (2.10%) Bitbucket
7 78 (2.05%) Cypress.io
8 76 (2.00%) Selenium
9 75 (1.97%) Maven
10 67 (1.76%) Artifactory
11 60 (1.58%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (1.58%) Protractor
11 60 (1.58%) WebDriver
12 50 (1.31%) Mockito
13 45 (1.18%) Visual Studio
14 38 (1.00%) Postman
15 36 (0.95%) JMeter
16 31 (0.81%) Gradle
17 27 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 2,265 (59.53%) Finance
2 2,131 (56.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,043 (53.69%) Law
4 1,102 (28.96%) Marketing
5 679 (17.84%) Legal
6 634 (16.66%) Social Skills
7 403 (10.59%) Banking
8 311 (8.17%) Investment Banking
9 255 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
10 235 (6.18%) Financial Institution
11 181 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
12 117 (3.07%) Retail
13 84 (2.21%) Aerospace
14 83 (2.18%) Public Sector
15 63 (1.66%) Electronics
16 56 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
17 53 (1.39%) Manufacturing
18 51 (1.34%) Private Banking
19 37 (0.97%) Telecoms
20 34 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,038 (53.56%) Software Engineer
2 819 (21.52%) Lead
3 696 (18.29%) Java Engineer
4 685 (18.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 606 (15.93%) Lead Software Engineer
6 522 (13.72%) Developer
7 490 (12.88%) Senior
8 346 (9.09%) Full Stack Engineer
9 331 (8.70%) Big Data Engineer
9 331 (8.70%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 325 (8.54%) Python Engineer
11 320 (8.41%) Python Software Engineer
12 297 (7.81%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 290 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
14 287 (7.54%) AWS Software Engineer
15 277 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 239 (6.28%) Lead Java Engineer
17 228 (5.99%) Project Manager
18 220 (5.78%) Scala Engineer
18 220 (5.78%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 617 (16.22%) Spring
2 609 (16.01%) React
3 506 (13.30%) AngularJS
4 386 (10.14%) .NET
5 343 (9.01%) Spring Boot
6 318 (8.36%) HTML
7 315 (8.28%) Kafka
8 282 (7.41%) JSON
9 280 (7.36%) CSS
10 269 (7.07%) Node.js
11 248 (6.52%) RESTful
12 247 (6.49%) J2EE
13 215 (5.65%) Hibernate
14 198 (5.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 194 (5.10%) Web Services
16 180 (4.73%) REST
17 171 (4.49%) PySpark
18 170 (4.47%) JMS
19 163 (4.28%) jQuery
20 149 (3.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 773 (20.32%) Algorithms
2 693 (18.21%) Cloud Native
3 269 (7.07%) Public Cloud
4 191 (5.02%) Management Information System
5 176 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 157 (4.13%) Onboarding
7 120 (3.15%) Reference Data
8 100 (2.63%) Data Structures
9 91 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
10 90 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
11 84 (2.21%) Market Risk
12 69 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
13 65 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
13 65 (1.71%) Mobile App
14 46 (1.21%) Blockchain
15 44 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 43 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
17 42 (1.10%) e-Learning
18 35 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
19 33 (0.87%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 296 (7.78%) Linux
2 149 (3.92%) Unix
3 61 (1.60%) Windows
4 48 (1.26%) Android
5 43 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 7 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.13%) ThreadX
11 4 (0.11%) VxWorks
12 3 (0.079%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.079%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 2 (0.053%) Solaris
13 2 (0.053%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.053%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.026%) Debian
14 1 (0.026%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,986 (78.48%) Agile
2 2,453 (64.47%) Software Engineering
3 2,014 (52.93%) CI/CD
4 1,692 (44.47%) Operational Stability
5 1,294 (34.01%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,236 (32.48%) Machine Learning
7 1,195 (31.41%) Community of Practice
8 888 (23.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 776 (20.39%) Visualisation
10 673 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
11 653 (17.16%) Risk Management
12 559 (14.69%) Microservices
13 550 (14.45%) Full Stack Development
14 497 (13.06%) Decision-Making
15 477 (12.54%) DevOps
16 474 (12.46%) Computer Science
17 465 (12.22%) Continuous Delivery
18 399 (10.49%) Project Management
19 394 (10.35%) Test Automation
20 385 (10.12%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,659 (43.60%) Java
2 1,242 (32.64%) SQL
3 972 (25.55%) Python
4 585 (15.37%) JavaScript
5 404 (10.62%) C#
6 320 (8.41%) Scala
7 258 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 155 (4.07%) PL/SQL
9 141 (3.71%) C
10 123 (3.23%) C++
11 98 (2.58%) Go
12 65 (1.71%) Prolog
12 65 (1.71%) SPARQL
13 60 (1.58%) Bash
14 56 (1.47%) Kotlin
15 54 (1.42%) PHP
16 39 (1.02%) T-SQL
17 37 (0.97%) Groovy
18 34 (0.89%) Lua
19 31 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 428 (11.25%) Degree
2 222 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 160 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 97 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 67 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 58 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 54 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 40 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 36 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.53%) PMP
13 19 (0.50%) DBS Check
14 18 (0.47%) CISSP
14 18 (0.47%) ISEB
15 17 (0.45%) PhD
16 14 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.32%) CISM
17 12 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (5.31%) QA
2 67 (1.76%) SLA
3 63 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 51 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.18%) PMO
6 30 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 21 (0.55%) NIST
8 18 (0.47%) ISO 13485
9 14 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.26%) ISO 9000
11 9 (0.24%) IEC 62304
12 8 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 7 (0.18%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.16%) TickIT
15 5 (0.13%) GDPR
15 5 (0.13%) MISRA
16 4 (0.11%) PCI DSS
17 3 (0.079%) IEC 61508
17 3 (0.079%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 231 (6.07%) Docker
2 100 (2.63%) HDFS
3 78 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 58 (1.52%) Firmware
5 22 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (0.21%) vSphere
8 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.053%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 446 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 307 (8.07%) Terraform
3 141 (3.71%) Grafana
4 73 (1.92%) Ansible
5 65 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.76%) Kibana
7 21 (0.55%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.55%) Zipkin
8 10 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.18%) Graphite
10 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.079%) Argo
11 3 (0.079%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.079%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.079%) Puppet
12 2 (0.053%) Istio
Vendors
1 442 (11.62%) Oracle
2 229 (6.02%) Databricks
3 224 (5.89%) Microsoft
4 144 (3.78%) Splunk
5 132 (3.47%) Dynatrace
6 107 (2.81%) Google
7 89 (2.34%) Informatica
8 70 (1.84%) Cloudera
9 66 (1.73%) IBM
10 55 (1.45%) Alteryx
11 44 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 40 (1.05%) Sparx
13 39 (1.02%) SAP
14 30 (0.79%) Atlassian
14 30 (0.79%) Qualtrics
15 24 (0.63%) Salesforce
16 18 (0.47%) Pega
17 17 (0.45%) Sybase
18 16 (0.42%) Cognos
19 13 (0.34%) BT