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 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 85 82 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 -21 +15
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 1,212 1,526 4,134
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.49% 3.97% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 4.13% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 658 1,162 2,224
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,300 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,813 £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% +9.65%

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 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 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 (3.80%) WebLogic
2 41 (3.38%) 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 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.07%) 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 (3.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 38 (3.14%) 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
1 396 (32.67%) Azure
2 268 (22.11%) AWS
3 110 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
4 90 (7.43%) SaaS
5 52 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
6 51 (4.21%) GCP
7 46 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
8 40 (3.30%) PaaS
9 32 (2.64%) GitHub
10 30 (2.48%) Power Platform
11 28 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (2.06%) Serverless
13 23 (1.90%) IaaS
14 19 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.07%) 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 (4.54%) TCP/IP
2 51 (4.21%) DNS
3 46 (3.80%) BGP
3 46 (3.80%) SSL
4 9 (0.74%) Internet
5 8 (0.66%) Network Security
5 8 (0.66%) NGFW
5 8 (0.66%) VoIP
5 8 (0.66%) VPN
6 7 (0.58%) HTTP
6 7 (0.58%) MQTT
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
1 167 (13.78%) SQL Server
2 139 (11.47%) Relational Database
3 88 (7.26%) RDBMS
4 57 (4.70%) MySQL
5 48 (3.96%) Oracle Database
6 47 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.57%) Power BI
8 18 (1.49%) Redis
9 17 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (1.07%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.91%) Big Data
13 10 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.74%) 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 (8.50%) JIRA
2 61 (5.03%) Git
3 36 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.90%) Maven
5 20 (1.65%) JUnit
6 17 (1.40%) Postman
7 14 (1.16%) GitLab
8 12 (0.99%) Selenium
8 12 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.83%) Eclipse
10 9 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.74%) NUnit
10 9 (0.74%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.58%) JMeter
12 6 (0.50%) Mocha
12 6 (0.50%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.41%) LabVIEW
13 5 (0.41%) MSTest
General
1 281 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 185 (15.26%) Finance
3 102 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.93%) Retail
5 79 (6.52%) Legal
6 77 (6.35%) Marketing
7 65 (5.36%) Aerospace
8 54 (4.46%) Banking
9 51 (4.21%) Games
10 36 (2.97%) Law
11 31 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (2.39%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.23%) Electronics
14 23 (1.90%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.65%) Publishing
16 19 (1.57%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (1.07%) Aviation
19 13 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 299 (24.67%) Developer
2 212 (17.49%) Project Manager
3 207 (17.08%) Senior
4 170 (14.03%) Lead
5 164 (13.53%) Software Engineer
6 159 (13.12%) Presales Manager
7 111 (9.16%) Analyst
8 97 (8.00%) Architect
9 93 (7.67%) Senior Developer
10 88 (7.26%) .NET Developer
11 84 (6.93%) Business Analyst
12 67 (5.53%) DevOps Engineer
13 66 (5.45%) Software Developer
14 60 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
15 48 (3.96%) Lead Architect
16 47 (3.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 44 (3.63%) Java Developer
17 44 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
18 43 (3.55%) C# Developer
19 39 (3.22%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (22.77%) .NET
2 139 (11.47%) AngularJS
3 131 (10.81%) React
4 105 (8.66%) ASP.NET
5 95 (7.84%) .NET Framework
6 89 (7.34%) Spring Boot
7 88 (7.26%) .NET Core
8 80 (6.60%) Spring
9 64 (5.28%) HTML
10 63 (5.20%) RESTful
11 62 (5.12%) ASP.NET Web API
12 59 (4.87%) CSS
13 55 (4.54%) REST
14 53 (4.37%) Entity Framework
15 52 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
16 51 (4.21%) ASP.NET MVC
17 42 (3.47%) Web Services
18 40 (3.30%) Node.js
19 38 (3.14%) JSON
19 38 (3.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
2 67 (5.53%) Public Cloud
3 65 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
4 38 (3.14%) Swaptions
5 35 (2.89%) Social Network
6 31 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 29 (2.39%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 24 (1.98%) Client/Server
10 21 (1.73%) 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 (1.07%) IoT
15 13 (1.07%) Private Cloud
16 12 (0.99%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 139 (11.47%) Linux
2 51 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 44 (3.63%) Windows
4 13 (1.07%) Unix
5 9 (0.74%) 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
1 757 (62.46%) Agile
2 320 (26.40%) Project Management
3 301 (24.83%) DevOps
4 299 (24.67%) Software Engineering
5 259 (21.37%) Actionable Insight
6 223 (18.40%) Project Delivery
7 221 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
8 194 (16.01%) Scrum
9 187 (15.43%) CI/CD
10 182 (15.02%) Software Delivery
11 180 (14.85%) Presales
12 179 (14.77%) Agile Project Management
13 168 (13.86%) Full Stack Development
14 141 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
15 138 (11.39%) Kanban
16 107 (8.83%) Microservices
17 100 (8.25%) Mentoring
18 99 (8.17%) Software Testing
19 97 (8.00%) Coaching
20 94 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 259 (21.37%) C#
2 228 (18.81%) SQL
3 227 (18.73%) JavaScript
4 184 (15.18%) Java
5 113 (9.32%) Python
6 64 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 56 (4.62%) C
8 49 (4.04%) VB
9 42 (3.47%) C++
10 32 (2.64%) T-SQL
11 25 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.65%) PHP
13 17 (1.40%) Groovy
14 11 (0.91%) Bash
14 11 (0.91%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.91%) RPG
15 10 (0.83%) Go
16 5 (0.41%) Bicep
17 4 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 180 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 178 (14.69%) Degree
3 84 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.20%) DV Cleared
5 59 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 50 (4.13%) AWS Certification
7 48 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 45 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.82%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.82%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 16 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.07%) 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 (12.54%) 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
1 149 (12.29%) Docker
2 33 (2.72%) Firmware
3 17 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.91%) vSphere
5 8 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.66%) 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
1 133 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 99 (8.17%) Terraform
3 64 (5.28%) Ansible
4 17 (1.40%) Grafana
5 9 (0.74%) 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 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.25%) Oracle
3 48 (3.96%) Sparx
4 38 (3.14%) OpenLink
4 38 (3.14%) Sybase
4 38 (3.14%) TIBCO
5 29 (2.39%) Google
6 23 (1.90%) SAP
7 17 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 12 (0.99%) BT
8 12 (0.99%) VMware
9 9 (0.74%) NVIDIA
10 8 (0.66%) Citrix
10 8 (0.66%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.66%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.41%) Databricks
11 5 (0.41%) IBM
12 4 (0.33%) Facebook
12 4 (0.33%) QNX
12 4 (0.33%) Splunk