SDLC Jobs in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 28 47
Rank change year-on-year +21 +19 -13
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,227 384 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.22% 8.31% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 35.93% 8.82% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 90 208 223
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,500 £53,750 £46,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +14.41% +24.21%
75th Percentile £88,000 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £123,250 £90,000 £73,750
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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,198 4,353 5,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.47% 94.24% 90.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,412 2,184 2,772
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,114 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +8.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,574 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in Scotland

SDLC
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Glasgow +28 2,132 £65,000 +13.04% 16
Edinburgh -24 71 £82,788 +19.21% 12
Aberdeen -7 9 £47,500 -21.88% 4
Dundee -8 7 £50,000 -31.03% 1
Aberdeenshire +10 3 £50,000 -9.09% 2
West Lothian -6 2 £52,500 -12.50%
Stirling - 2 £55,000 - 2
Falkirk - 2 £55,000 - 2
Lanarkshire -6 1 - - 5
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 534 (23.98%) Apache Spark
2 117 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (4.76%) Apache
4 98 (4.40%) FileNet
5 21 (0.94%) GemFire
6 20 (0.90%) Camunda
7 17 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
8 11 (0.49%) CICS
9 9 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.27%) Confluence
12 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.045%) IIS
13 1 (0.045%) Tuxedo
13 1 (0.045%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (1.44%) UserZoom
2 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.045%) Maximo
2 1 (0.045%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,112 (49.93%) AWS
2 146 (6.56%) Azure
3 106 (4.76%) GCP
4 98 (4.40%) Amazon S3
5 91 (4.09%) Datadog
6 78 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
8 55 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
9 54 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
11 51 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
11 51 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (2.29%) GitHub
11 51 (2.29%) Serverless
12 35 (1.57%) Figma
13 33 (1.48%) BlazeMeter
14 32 (1.44%) SurveyMonkey
15 25 (1.12%) Google Play
16 17 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.68%) Kerberos
2 18 (0.81%) DSL
3 8 (0.36%) BGP
3 8 (0.36%) DNS
3 8 (0.36%) SSL
3 8 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.31%) HTTP
4 7 (0.31%) MQTT
5 5 (0.22%) Firewall
6 4 (0.18%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.090%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 655 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 448 (20.12%) Big Data
3 189 (8.49%) Hadoop
4 132 (5.93%) Elasticsearch
5 131 (5.88%) Apache Hive
6 121 (5.43%) Relational Database
7 120 (5.39%) Apache Cassandra
8 102 (4.58%) HBase
9 79 (3.55%) MongoDB
10 65 (2.92%) Metadata
11 63 (2.83%) Data Lake
12 51 (2.29%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (1.75%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.71%) CockroachDB
15 29 (1.30%) DB2
15 29 (1.30%) MySQL
16 24 (1.08%) RDBMS
17 21 (0.94%) Hazelcast
17 21 (0.94%) Looker
18 20 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 288 (12.93%) Jenkins
2 200 (8.98%) JUnit
3 194 (8.71%) Git
4 105 (4.71%) Jasmine
5 86 (3.86%) Bitbucket Server
6 71 (3.19%) Cypress.io
7 68 (3.05%) Maven
8 65 (2.92%) Artifactory
8 65 (2.92%) Bitbucket
8 65 (2.92%) Selenium
9 60 (2.69%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (2.69%) Protractor
9 60 (2.69%) WebDriver
10 48 (2.16%) Mockito
11 30 (1.35%) Gradle
12 28 (1.26%) JMeter
13 25 (1.12%) Android Studio
14 21 (0.94%) Jaeger
14 21 (0.94%) JIRA
15 20 (0.90%) CircleCI
General
1 2,124 (95.37%) Finance
2 2,094 (94.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,081 (93.44%) Law
4 1,103 (49.53%) Marketing
5 616 (27.66%) Legal
6 375 (16.84%) Banking
7 302 (13.56%) Investment Banking
8 245 (11.00%) Financial Institution
9 206 (9.25%) Social Skills
10 180 (8.08%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (2.60%) Private Banking
12 37 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
12 37 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.17%) Games
14 22 (0.99%) Prime Brokerage
15 19 (0.85%) Front Office
16 15 (0.67%) Publishing
17 11 (0.49%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.40%) Aviation
19 8 (0.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1,870 (83.97%) Software Engineer
2 706 (31.70%) Java Engineer
2 706 (31.70%) Java Software Engineer
3 658 (29.55%) Lead
4 624 (28.02%) Lead Software Engineer
5 347 (15.58%) Big Data Engineer
5 347 (15.58%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 331 (14.86%) Python Engineer
6 331 (14.86%) Python Software Engineer
7 309 (13.88%) Full Stack Engineer
7 309 (13.88%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 297 (13.34%) AWS Engineer
8 297 (13.34%) AWS Software Engineer
9 245 (11.00%) Lead Java Engineer
10 229 (10.28%) Senior
11 228 (10.24%) Scala Engineer
11 228 (10.24%) Scala Software Engineer
12 200 (8.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 199 (8.94%) Data Engineer
14 168 (7.54%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 559 (25.10%) Spring
2 474 (21.28%) React
3 380 (17.06%) AngularJS
4 304 (13.65%) Kafka
5 278 (12.48%) Spring Boot
6 247 (11.09%) J2EE
7 235 (10.55%) HTML
8 207 (9.30%) JSON
9 204 (9.16%) CSS
10 195 (8.76%) Hibernate
11 188 (8.44%) Node.js
12 184 (8.26%) RESTful
13 174 (7.81%) PySpark
14 171 (7.68%) JMS
15 163 (7.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 144 (6.47%) Web Services
17 139 (6.24%) jQuery
18 125 (5.61%) GraphQL
19 110 (4.94%) XML
20 109 (4.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 733 (32.91%) Algorithms
2 679 (30.49%) Cloud Native
3 231 (10.37%) Public Cloud
4 155 (6.96%) Onboarding
5 127 (5.70%) Management Information System
6 124 (5.57%) Reference Data
7 92 (4.13%) Data Structures
8 86 (3.86%) Market Risk
9 65 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
10 64 (2.87%) Distributed Applications
11 52 (2.33%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.03%) Credit Risk
13 21 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (0.94%) Replication
14 20 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (0.67%) Private Cloud
16 13 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (0.49%) Mainframe
17 11 (0.49%) VSAM
18 9 (0.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 130 (5.84%) Unix
2 112 (5.03%) Linux
3 25 (1.12%) Android
4 8 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.18%) Windows
6 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,132 (95.73%) Agile
2 2,089 (93.80%) Software Engineering
3 1,828 (82.08%) CI/CD
4 1,742 (78.22%) Operational Stability
5 1,248 (56.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,231 (55.28%) Machine Learning
7 1,218 (54.69%) Community of Practice
8 775 (34.80%) Visualisation
9 737 (33.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 643 (28.87%) Risk Management
11 464 (20.84%) Microservices
12 462 (20.75%) Decision-Making
13 454 (20.39%) Continuous Delivery
14 378 (16.97%) Architectural Design
14 378 (16.97%) Information Architecture
15 352 (15.81%) Full Stack Development
16 316 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
17 278 (12.48%) Computer Science
18 242 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
19 239 (10.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,453 (65.24%) Java
2 1,003 (45.04%) SQL
3 834 (37.45%) Python
4 319 (14.32%) Scala
5 298 (13.38%) JavaScript
6 211 (9.47%) TypeScript
7 151 (6.78%) PL/SQL
8 81 (3.64%) Go
9 65 (2.92%) Prolog
9 65 (2.92%) SPARQL
10 51 (2.29%) C#
11 37 (1.66%) Groovy
12 27 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.90%) Ruby
15 11 (0.49%) COBOL
15 11 (0.49%) JCL
16 8 (0.36%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.27%) C
17 6 (0.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 94 (4.22%) Degree
2 43 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (1.48%) Master's Degree
4 12 (0.54%) Azure Certification
5 8 (0.36%) AWS Certification
5 8 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (0.36%) CISSP
5 8 (0.36%) SC Cleared
5 8 (0.36%) Security Cleared
6 6 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (0.27%) CISM
7 5 (0.22%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.22%) PMP
8 4 (0.18%) CCNA
8 4 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.18%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.045%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.045%) CBAP
9 1 (0.045%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (2.74%) SLA
2 51 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 32 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 20 (0.90%) PMO
6 16 (0.72%) QA
7 6 (0.27%) NIST
8 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 102 (4.58%) HDFS
2 65 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.89%) Docker
4 11 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
5 9 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.090%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 336 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 213 (9.56%) Terraform
3 136 (6.11%) Grafana
4 62 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.94%) HAProxy
5 21 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (0.94%) Kibana
5 21 (0.94%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.31%) Graphite
7 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.090%) Ansible
8 2 (0.090%) Istio
8 2 (0.090%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 358 (16.08%) Oracle
2 231 (10.37%) Databricks
3 140 (6.29%) Splunk
4 132 (5.93%) Dynatrace
5 87 (3.91%) Informatica
6 72 (3.23%) Cloudera
7 59 (2.65%) Google
8 57 (2.56%) Alteryx
9 32 (1.44%) Qualtrics
10 23 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 22 (0.99%) Microsoft
12 20 (0.90%) Pega
13 18 (0.81%) Cognos
13 18 (0.81%) Sybase
14 9 (0.40%) TOWER Software
15 8 (0.36%) Sparx
16 7 (0.31%) NVIDIA
16 7 (0.31%) SAP
17 6 (0.27%) IBM
18 4 (0.18%) Cisco