SDLC Jobs in the West Midlands

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 121 25 75
Rank change year-on-year -96 +50 -45
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 156 475 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.95% 8.16% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 8.43% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 119 183 187
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,125 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £93,547 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% -6.46% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,464 5,634 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.70% 96.74% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,699 3,147 4,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £39,842 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham -50 72 £60,000 +4.35% 18
Warwickshire -5 28 £57,500 +8.49% 4
Staffordshire -20 20 £90,000 +125.00% 13
Solihull -10 15 £50,000 - 1
Coventry -8 8 £47,500 -10.80% 9
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 -
Worcestershire -32 3 £57,500 +35.29% 4
Shropshire -8 2 £55,000 -
Walsall -11 1 £50,000 -18.37%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (0.64%) Confluence
1 1 (0.64%) NServiceBus
1 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.56%) Azure
2 27 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (11.54%) AWS
4 13 (8.33%) PaaS
5 9 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.77%) SaaS
6 8 (5.13%) IaaS
7 6 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.21%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.56%) GCP
9 4 (2.56%) GitHub
10 3 (1.92%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.28%) Serverless
12 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.64%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.64%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.64%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.13%) NGFW
1 8 (5.13%) VPN
2 2 (1.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.49%) MySQL
2 6 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.56%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.92%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (1.92%) Power BI
6 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.28%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.64%) Event Store
7 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.64%) OLAP
7 1 (0.64%) RavenDB
7 1 (0.64%) Redis
7 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (8.33%) Git
2 9 (5.77%) Postman
3 5 (3.21%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.56%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.92%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.92%) JIRA
6 2 (1.28%) Toad
7 1 (0.64%) GitLab
7 1 (0.64%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.64%) Moq
7 1 (0.64%) NUnit
7 1 (0.64%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.44%) Retail
3 26 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (16.03%) Finance
5 18 (11.54%) Legal
6 6 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.21%) Digital Healthcare
8 4 (2.56%) Marketing
8 4 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.56%) Publishing
9 3 (1.92%) Automotive
9 3 (1.92%) Banking
9 3 (1.92%) Electronics
10 2 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Aviation
11 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (26.92%) Developer
2 26 (16.67%) Senior
3 22 (14.10%) Analyst
4 18 (11.54%) Business Analyst
5 17 (10.90%) Senior Developer
6 16 (10.26%) Architect
7 15 (9.62%) Lead
8 14 (8.97%) Software Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) .NET Developer
9 11 (7.05%) RPG Developer
10 10 (6.41%) Project Manager
11 8 (5.13%) Citrix Architect
11 8 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (5.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
11 8 (5.13%) DevOps Architect
12 6 (3.85%) Business Analyst Team Leader
12 6 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.85%) Head of Development
12 6 (3.85%) Head of Software Development
12 6 (3.85%) Lead Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.92%) .NET
2 20 (12.82%) JSON
3 18 (11.54%) .NET Core
4 15 (9.62%) RESTful
5 14 (8.97%) .NET Framework
5 14 (8.97%) AngularJS
6 13 (8.33%) SOAP
7 12 (7.69%) React
7 12 (7.69%) Vue
8 11 (7.05%) Web Services
9 9 (5.77%) ASP.NET
9 9 (5.77%) XML
10 8 (5.13%) ARM Templates
10 8 (5.13%) WCF
10 8 (5.13%) YAML
11 4 (2.56%) jQuery
11 4 (2.56%) REST
11 4 (2.56%) Spring
11 4 (2.56%) Spring Boot
11 4 (2.56%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.10%) Product Ownership
2 20 (12.82%) Mobile App
3 15 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 11 (7.05%) AS400
5 11 (7.05%) iSeries
6 10 (6.41%) Virtual Team
7 9 (5.77%) Cloud Native
8 8 (5.13%) Management Information System
8 8 (5.13%) Private Cloud
9 5 (3.21%) Data Structures
9 5 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.28%) IoT
11 2 (1.28%) SCADA
12 1 (0.64%) 3D Graphics
12 1 (0.64%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.85%) Linux
2 5 (3.21%) Windows
3 3 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.92%) Unix
3 3 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (53.85%) Agile
2 50 (32.05%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (28.85%) DevOps
4 39 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 37 (23.72%) Computer Science
6 35 (22.44%) Software Engineering
7 31 (19.87%) Test Automation
8 30 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 30 (19.23%) Resource Allocation
9 22 (14.10%) Project Management
9 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (13.46%) Roadmaps
11 20 (12.82%) Regression Testing
12 19 (12.18%) Coaching
12 19 (12.18%) Test Strategy
13 18 (11.54%) ITIL
13 18 (11.54%) Project Delivery
14 17 (10.90%) Functional Testing
14 17 (10.90%) Logistics
14 17 (10.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.00%) SQL
2 29 (18.59%) C#
3 22 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 11 (7.05%) RPG
4 11 (7.05%) RPG IV
4 11 (7.05%) RPG/400
5 10 (6.41%) Java
6 8 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.13%) Python
7 5 (3.21%) C
7 5 (3.21%) PHP
7 5 (3.21%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.56%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.92%) C++
10 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.28%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (36.54%) Degree
2 20 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.05%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.56%) HNC
7 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.44%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) ITGC
2 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
1 8 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (5.13%) vSphere
2 5 (3.21%) Docker
2 5 (3.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (0.64%) Grafana
2 1 (0.64%) Kibana
2 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (8.97%) IBM
2 11 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.13%) Citrix
3 8 (5.13%) VMware
4 5 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.56%) Google
6 3 (1.92%) InterSystems
7 2 (1.28%) Informatica
7 2 (1.28%) Oracle
7 2 (1.28%) SAP
8 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.64%) Splunk
8 1 (0.64%) Xamarin