SDLC Jobs in England

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 45 61
Rank change year-on-year -72 +16 +8
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,066 5,415 7,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.41% 6.02% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 6.30% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 2,469 3,725
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,899 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -6.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.48% -2.56% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,404 86,015 127,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.48% 95.62% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 53,973 50,951 72,982
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,410 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in England

SDLC
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London -70 573 £80,000 +3.23% 206
North of England -77 418 £57,500 - 104
South East -52 381 £57,500 - 86
South West -16 295 £60,000 +9.09% 61
North West -66 257 £60,000 +14.29% 60
Midlands -100 237 £57,500 +4.55% 79
East of England -42 145 £50,000 -13.04% 34
West Midlands -102 142 £57,500 - 47
Yorkshire -68 115 £50,000 -13.04% 34
East Midlands -73 95 £50,000 -9.09% 32
North East +1 46 £61,250 +6.52% 10
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 45 (2.18%) nginx
2 44 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 36 (1.74%) Camunda
5 32 (1.55%) Apache
6 30 (1.45%) WebLogic
7 29 (1.40%) Confluence
8 24 (1.16%) Apache Spark
9 18 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
10 16 (0.77%) SAS
11 9 (0.44%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.39%) Apache Pig
13 6 (0.29%) CMS
14 5 (0.24%) OpenEdge
15 4 (0.19%) Drupal
15 4 (0.19%) IIS
16 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
16 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 2 (0.097%) IBM Domino
17 2 (0.097%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 60 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.73%) SPSS
7 6 (0.29%) Simulink
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 40 (1.94%) Endur
2 30 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.34%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.24%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.19%) Relativity
8 3 (0.15%) CA PPM
8 3 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.097%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.097%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.097%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.097%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.097%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 1 (0.048%) Data Workbench
10 1 (0.048%) Postilion
10 1 (0.048%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 539 (26.09%) Azure
2 467 (22.60%) AWS
3 143 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
4 125 (6.05%) SaaS
5 100 (4.84%) GCP
6 75 (3.63%) GitHub
7 66 (3.19%) Power Platform
8 64 (3.10%) Serverless
9 48 (2.32%) IBM Cloud
10 47 (2.27%) PaaS
11 46 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
12 43 (2.08%) Amazon S3
13 41 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (1.84%) OpenShift
14 38 (1.84%) PowerApps
15 36 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
16 35 (1.69%) IaaS
17 32 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
18 31 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.39%) TCP/IP
2 69 (3.34%) DNS
3 31 (1.50%) HTTP
4 30 (1.45%) SSL
5 29 (1.40%) DHCP
6 28 (1.36%) BGP
7 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.87%) Network Security
9 17 (0.82%) VPN
10 16 (0.77%) Firewall
10 16 (0.77%) Wireless
11 15 (0.73%) Internet
12 14 (0.68%) Bluetooth
13 12 (0.58%) NGFW
14 10 (0.48%) VoIP
15 8 (0.39%) Broadband
16 7 (0.34%) RS-485
17 6 (0.29%) AMQP
17 6 (0.29%) ZigBee
18 5 (0.24%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 166 (8.03%) Relational Database
3 105 (5.08%) RDBMS
4 97 (4.70%) MySQL
5 75 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
6 71 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
7 70 (3.39%) Oracle Database
8 64 (3.10%) NoSQL
9 62 (3.00%) MongoDB
10 55 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
11 54 (2.61%) Big Data
12 47 (2.27%) Power BI
13 36 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 31 (1.50%) Metadata
15 28 (1.36%) Redis
16 22 (1.06%) Data Lake
17 21 (1.02%) Hadoop
18 20 (0.97%) Apache Hive
19 18 (0.87%) BigQuery
20 15 (0.73%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 183 (8.86%) JIRA
2 178 (8.62%) Git
3 93 (4.50%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.89%) Postman
5 38 (1.84%) Visual Studio
6 37 (1.79%) GitLab
7 30 (1.45%) JUnit
8 24 (1.16%) Selenium
9 23 (1.11%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (0.92%) Maven
12 17 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 17 (0.82%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.73%) NUnit
14 14 (0.68%) LabVIEW
15 13 (0.63%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.58%) Eclipse
16 12 (0.58%) TeamCity
17 11 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
18 10 (0.48%) Appium
General
1 584 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 413 (19.99%) Finance
3 255 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (5.42%) Marketing
6 107 (5.18%) Banking
7 85 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 80 (3.87%) Retail
9 79 (3.82%) Aerospace
10 70 (3.39%) Law
10 70 (3.39%) Legal
11 55 (2.66%) Games
12 43 (2.08%) Electronics
13 39 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 36 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (1.55%) Investment Banking
16 31 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (1.16%) Retail Banking
19 19 (0.92%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 545 (26.38%) Developer
2 370 (17.91%) Senior
3 253 (12.25%) Lead
4 243 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 206 (9.97%) Project Manager
6 168 (8.13%) Architect
7 159 (7.70%) Analyst
8 120 (5.81%) Senior Developer
9 113 (5.47%) .NET Developer
10 109 (5.28%) Software Developer
11 98 (4.74%) Presales Manager
12 97 (4.70%) Business Analyst
13 94 (4.55%) Java Developer
14 84 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
14 84 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
15 73 (3.53%) Technical Leader
16 67 (3.24%) Full Stack Developer
16 67 (3.24%) Software Manager
17 61 (2.95%) C# Developer
18 58 (2.81%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (19.60%) .NET
2 205 (9.92%) React
3 170 (8.23%) AngularJS
4 147 (7.12%) Spring Boot
5 140 (6.78%) HTML
6 134 (6.49%) .NET Framework
7 127 (6.15%) Spring
8 120 (5.81%) ASP.NET
9 117 (5.66%) .NET Core
10 114 (5.52%) REST
11 103 (4.99%) Node.js
12 102 (4.94%) JSON
13 100 (4.84%) CSS
14 88 (4.26%) Kafka
15 83 (4.02%) RESTful
16 78 (3.78%) Web Services
17 67 (3.24%) Vue
18 66 (3.19%) Entity Framework
19 63 (3.05%) ASP.NET Web API
20 59 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 103 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
3 99 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 98 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 82 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
6 73 (3.53%) Mobile App
7 65 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 58 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
9 55 (2.66%) Algorithms
9 55 (2.66%) Blockchain
10 50 (2.42%) Virtual Team
11 48 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
12 45 (2.18%) e-Learning
13 40 (1.94%) Swaptions
14 38 (1.84%) Cyberattack
15 31 (1.50%) Client/Server
15 31 (1.50%) Social Network
16 25 (1.21%) IoT
17 23 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.95%) Linux
2 73 (3.53%) Windows
3 32 (1.55%) Android
3 32 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.87%) Unix
6 17 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.24%) ThreadX
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.097%) VMS
10 2 (0.097%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.097%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.048%) Debian
11 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.048%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,209 (58.52%) Agile
2 536 (25.94%) DevOps
3 519 (25.12%) Software Engineering
4 464 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
5 421 (20.38%) Project Management
6 341 (16.51%) CI/CD
7 291 (14.09%) Scrum
8 273 (13.21%) Roadmaps
9 271 (13.12%) Full Stack Development
10 256 (12.39%) Computer Science
11 255 (12.34%) Mentoring
12 221 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 210 (10.16%) Microservices
14 206 (9.97%) Project Delivery
15 194 (9.39%) Test Automation
16 183 (8.86%) Actionable Insight
17 167 (8.08%) Kanban
18 155 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
19 149 (7.21%) Agile Project Management
19 149 (7.21%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 458 (22.17%) Java
2 383 (18.54%) C#
3 369 (17.86%) SQL
4 355 (17.18%) JavaScript
5 260 (12.58%) Python
6 111 (5.37%) C++
7 91 (4.40%) C
8 88 (4.26%) TypeScript
9 74 (3.58%) PHP
10 62 (3.00%) VB
11 59 (2.86%) Kotlin
12 53 (2.57%) Bash
13 49 (2.37%) Go
14 48 (2.32%) PowerShell
15 38 (1.84%) Scala
16 36 (1.74%) Lua
17 22 (1.06%) RPG
18 21 (1.02%) T-SQL
19 17 (0.82%) Perl
20 15 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 378 (18.30%) Degree
2 245 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 145 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 89 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 76 (3.68%) AWS Certification
7 60 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 49 (2.37%) Azure Certification
9 36 (1.74%) PMI Certification
10 35 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 21 (1.02%) DBS Check
13 18 (0.87%) ISEB
13 18 (0.87%) PMP
14 16 (0.77%) CISSP
15 12 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.58%) CISM
16 11 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.44%) HNC
17 9 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (9.34%) QA
2 44 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 33 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.31%) PMO
5 21 (1.02%) NIST
6 12 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 12 (0.58%) SLA
7 10 (0.48%) ISO 9000
8 9 (0.44%) ISO 13485
9 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.39%) IEC 62304
10 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (0.29%) TickIT
12 5 (0.24%) GDPR
12 5 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.19%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.097%) IEC 61508
15 2 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 2 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 270 (13.07%) Docker
2 39 (1.89%) Firmware
3 22 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
4 18 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.87%) HDFS
5 17 (0.82%) vSphere
6 15 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.048%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 216 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 182 (8.81%) Terraform
3 87 (4.21%) Ansible
4 16 (0.77%) Grafana
5 13 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 12 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.48%) Puppet
8 7 (0.34%) Kibana
9 6 (0.29%) Argo
10 5 (0.24%) Control-M
10 5 (0.24%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.19%) Packer
12 3 (0.15%) Salt
12 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.097%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 246 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 148 (7.16%) Oracle
3 75 (3.63%) Google
4 67 (3.24%) IBM
5 49 (2.37%) Red Hat
6 41 (1.98%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.98%) Sybase
7 40 (1.94%) OpenLink
7 40 (1.94%) TIBCO
8 37 (1.79%) SAP
9 30 (1.45%) Sparx
10 29 (1.40%) Databricks
11 19 (0.92%) VMware
12 16 (0.77%) Citrix
13 11 (0.53%) BT
13 11 (0.53%) Nintex
14 10 (0.48%) Apple
14 10 (0.48%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.48%) Cloudera
14 10 (0.48%) ServiceNow