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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 58 66
Rank change year-on-year -58 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,141 4,307 7,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.27% 5.21% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 5.46% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 2,310 3,786
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,475 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,800 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -6.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,325 £95,436 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -2.72% +8.70%

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 78,129 78,899 137,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.94% 95.45% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,773 48,272 73,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,309 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
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 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 9 June 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 9 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
London -77 578 £80,000 +6.67% 196
North of England -57 431 £55,000 -4.35% 88
South East -56 393 £57,500 - 62
Midlands -77 298 £55,000 -0.90% 82
South West -27 274 £58,750 +1.95% 62
North West -48 266 £60,000 +9.09% 61
West Midlands -93 159 £57,500 - 51
East of England -49 146 £50,000 -13.04% 24
East Midlands -50 138 £50,000 -9.09% 31
Yorkshire -52 119 £50,000 -13.04% 21
North East -16 46 £61,250 +6.52% 8
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 (2.10%) nginx
2 42 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 36 (1.68%) Camunda
5 30 (1.40%) Apache
5 30 (1.40%) WebLogic
6 26 (1.21%) Confluence
7 20 (0.93%) Apache Spark
8 17 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
9 16 (0.75%) SAS
10 8 (0.37%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.23%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.23%) CMS
11 5 (0.23%) OpenEdge
12 4 (0.19%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) IIS
13 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 2 (0.093%) EPiServer
14 2 (0.093%) GlassFish
14 2 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 60 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.70%) SPSS
7 6 (0.28%) Simulink
8 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.093%) Trello
10 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 38 (1.77%) Endur
2 30 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.23%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.19%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.19%) Relativity
6 3 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.093%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.093%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.093%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.093%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.093%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 1 (0.047%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.047%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.047%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 544 (25.41%) Azure
2 456 (21.30%) AWS
3 147 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (6.12%) SaaS
5 103 (4.81%) GCP
6 67 (3.13%) GitHub
7 63 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 58 (2.71%) Serverless
9 48 (2.24%) IBM Cloud
10 45 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (2.01%) PaaS
12 42 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 40 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
14 39 (1.82%) PowerApps
15 38 (1.77%) OpenShift
16 35 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
17 32 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
18 31 (1.45%) Power Automate
19 30 (1.40%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.91%) TCP/IP
2 40 (1.87%) DNS
3 30 (1.40%) SSL
4 28 (1.31%) BGP
5 19 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (0.79%) Network Security
7 16 (0.75%) Firewall
7 16 (0.75%) Internet
7 16 (0.75%) Wireless
8 14 (0.65%) Bluetooth
9 12 (0.56%) VPN
10 8 (0.37%) Broadband
10 8 (0.37%) VoIP
11 7 (0.33%) NGFW
11 7 (0.33%) RS-485
12 6 (0.28%) AMQP
12 6 (0.28%) ZigBee
13 5 (0.23%) Multicast
13 5 (0.23%) RS-232
14 3 (0.14%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (10.51%) SQL Server
2 166 (7.75%) Relational Database
3 105 (4.90%) RDBMS
4 93 (4.34%) MySQL
5 73 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
6 69 (3.22%) Oracle Database
7 66 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
8 65 (3.04%) NoSQL
9 60 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 55 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
11 51 (2.38%) Big Data
12 44 (2.06%) Power BI
13 35 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.49%) Metadata
15 27 (1.26%) Redis
16 22 (1.03%) Data Lake
17 20 (0.93%) BigQuery
18 17 (0.79%) DynamoDB
19 15 (0.70%) EDRMS
20 13 (0.61%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 189 (8.83%) JIRA
2 180 (8.41%) Git
3 92 (4.30%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 39 (1.82%) Postman
6 37 (1.73%) GitLab
7 30 (1.40%) JUnit
8 21 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
9 20 (0.93%) Selenium
10 19 (0.89%) NUnit
11 18 (0.84%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 17 (0.79%) Maven
13 16 (0.75%) LabVIEW
14 14 (0.65%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.61%) Mocha
16 12 (0.56%) Eclipse
16 12 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
17 11 (0.51%) SpecFlow
General
1 572 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 386 (18.03%) Finance
3 262 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (5.98%) Retail
6 123 (5.74%) Legal
7 118 (5.51%) Marketing
8 107 (5.00%) Banking
9 86 (4.02%) Public Sector
10 85 (3.97%) Aerospace
11 73 (3.41%) Law
12 52 (2.43%) Games
13 47 (2.20%) Electronics
14 45 (2.10%) Manufacturing
15 38 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (1.63%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.49%) Investment Banking
18 31 (1.45%) Retail Banking
19 26 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
20 20 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 562 (26.25%) Developer
2 383 (17.89%) Senior
3 288 (13.45%) Software Engineer
4 276 (12.89%) Lead
5 193 (9.01%) Analyst
6 185 (8.64%) Project Manager
7 154 (7.19%) Architect
8 130 (6.07%) Business Analyst
9 122 (5.70%) Senior Developer
10 118 (5.51%) .NET Developer
11 109 (5.09%) Software Developer
12 103 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
13 101 (4.72%) Java Developer
14 85 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
15 84 (3.92%) Presales Manager
16 74 (3.46%) Full Stack Developer
17 71 (3.32%) Technical Leader
18 68 (3.18%) C# Developer
19 65 (3.04%) Software Manager
20 58 (2.71%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (20.04%) .NET
2 221 (10.32%) React
3 187 (8.73%) AngularJS
4 148 (6.91%) Spring Boot
5 137 (6.40%) .NET Framework
6 129 (6.03%) Spring
7 128 (5.98%) ASP.NET
8 123 (5.74%) .NET Core
9 108 (5.04%) HTML
10 107 (5.00%) REST
11 105 (4.90%) Node.js
12 104 (4.86%) CSS
13 94 (4.39%) JSON
14 93 (4.34%) RESTful
15 86 (4.02%) Kafka
16 79 (3.69%) Web Services
17 78 (3.64%) Vue
18 69 (3.22%) Entity Framework
19 65 (3.04%) ASP.NET Web API
20 60 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 158 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 102 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 102 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 83 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
4 74 (3.46%) Mobile App
5 73 (3.41%) Algorithms
6 63 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 59 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
8 58 (2.71%) Public Cloud
9 55 (2.57%) Blockchain
10 48 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 44 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
11 44 (2.06%) e-Learning
12 42 (1.96%) Virtual Team
13 38 (1.77%) Swaptions
14 32 (1.49%) Social Network
15 29 (1.35%) Client/Server
16 26 (1.21%) IoT
17 25 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
18 21 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 199 (9.29%) Linux
2 72 (3.36%) Windows
3 35 (1.63%) Android
4 33 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.49%) Unix
6 21 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.23%) ThreadX
10 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.093%) VMS
13 1 (0.047%) Debian
13 1 (0.047%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,195 (55.82%) Agile
2 572 (26.72%) Software Engineering
3 550 (25.69%) DevOps
4 478 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
5 409 (19.10%) Project Management
6 356 (16.63%) CI/CD
7 309 (14.43%) Scrum
8 279 (13.03%) Full Stack Development
9 268 (12.52%) Computer Science
10 267 (12.47%) Roadmaps
11 260 (12.14%) Mentoring
12 230 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 223 (10.42%) Microservices
14 199 (9.29%) Project Delivery
15 194 (9.06%) Software Testing
16 191 (8.92%) Test Automation
17 173 (8.08%) Coaching
17 173 (8.08%) Kanban
18 166 (7.75%) Actionable Insight
19 161 (7.52%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 466 (21.77%) Java
2 398 (18.59%) C#
3 385 (17.98%) SQL
4 373 (17.42%) JavaScript
5 293 (13.69%) Python
6 140 (6.54%) C++
7 119 (5.56%) C
8 86 (4.02%) TypeScript
9 74 (3.46%) PHP
10 71 (3.32%) Bash
11 58 (2.71%) Kotlin
12 57 (2.66%) VB
13 53 (2.48%) Go
14 41 (1.91%) PowerShell
15 40 (1.87%) Scala
16 36 (1.68%) Lua
17 26 (1.21%) Fortran
17 26 (1.21%) Perl
18 23 (1.07%) RPG
19 22 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 439 (20.50%) Degree
2 246 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 143 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 104 (4.86%) SC Cleared
5 69 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 49 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 47 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 38 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.26%) ISTQB
11 22 (1.03%) DBS Check
11 22 (1.03%) ISEB
12 21 (0.98%) PhD
13 18 (0.84%) PMP
14 16 (0.75%) CISSP
15 12 (0.56%) CISM
16 11 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (11.44%) QA
2 40 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 30 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.31%) PMO
5 20 (0.93%) NIST
6 14 (0.65%) ISO 9001
7 10 (0.47%) ISO 13485
7 10 (0.47%) ISO 9000
7 10 (0.47%) SLA
8 9 (0.42%) IEC 62304
9 8 (0.37%) GDPR
10 7 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.33%) TickIT
11 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.23%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.14%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.14%) ISO 26262
13 3 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 285 (13.31%) Docker
2 42 (1.96%) Firmware
3 22 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
4 15 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 13 (0.61%) HDFS
6 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.47%) vSphere
7 7 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 227 (10.60%) Kubernetes
2 153 (7.15%) Terraform
3 88 (4.11%) Ansible
4 15 (0.70%) Grafana
5 11 (0.51%) Progress Chef
5 11 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.33%) Kibana
6 7 (0.33%) Puppet
7 5 (0.23%) Control-M
8 4 (0.19%) Argo
8 4 (0.19%) Packer
9 3 (0.14%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.14%) Salt
9 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 267 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 143 (6.68%) Oracle
3 74 (3.46%) Google
4 66 (3.08%) IBM
5 48 (2.24%) Red Hat
6 39 (1.82%) SAP
6 39 (1.82%) Sybase
7 38 (1.77%) OpenLink
7 38 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 38 (1.77%) TIBCO
8 30 (1.40%) Sparx
9 28 (1.31%) Databricks
10 17 (0.79%) BT
11 12 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.56%) VMware
12 11 (0.51%) Apple
12 11 (0.51%) Nintex
12 11 (0.51%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.42%) IFS
13 9 (0.42%) MuleSoft