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 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 7 38 54
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 -17
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,045 295 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.70% 6.85% 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.07% 7.24% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 89 184 235
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £40,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £93,500 £78,750
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
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 6,184 4,076 5,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.82% 94.61% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 2,038 2,896
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
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 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 June 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 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
Glasgow +36 1,945 £65,000 +13.04% 16
Edinburgh -15 72 £82,000 +17.14% 18
Aberdeen -9 9 £47,500 -21.88% 3
Dundee -9 6 £50,000 -31.03%
Fife -9 4 £50,000 -9.09%
Aberdeenshire +7 3 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Stirling - 3 £50,000 - 1
Falkirk - 3 £50,000 - 1
West Lothian -4 2 £52,500 -12.50%
Lanarkshire -10 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
1 475 (23.23%) Apache Spark
2 109 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (4.79%) FileNet
4 94 (4.60%) Apache
5 21 (1.03%) GemFire
6 17 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
7 14 (0.68%) Camunda
8 11 (0.54%) CICS
9 10 (0.49%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.20%) Confluence
13 3 (0.15%) IIS
14 2 (0.098%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.098%) WildFly
15 1 (0.049%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 26 (1.27%) UserZoom
2 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.049%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.049%) Maximo
2 1 (0.049%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 987 (48.26%) AWS
2 124 (6.06%) Azure
3 98 (4.79%) Amazon S3
4 91 (4.45%) Datadog
5 83 (4.06%) GCP
6 66 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 53 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
8 52 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 49 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
10 48 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (2.35%) GitHub
11 45 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
11 45 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (2.20%) Serverless
12 29 (1.42%) Figma
13 27 (1.32%) BlazeMeter
14 26 (1.27%) SurveyMonkey
15 25 (1.22%) Google Play
16 12 (0.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.01%) Kerberos
2 13 (0.64%) DSL
3 8 (0.39%) BGP
3 8 (0.39%) DNS
3 8 (0.39%) SSL
3 8 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.29%) HTTP
4 6 (0.29%) MQTT
5 5 (0.24%) Firewall
6 4 (0.20%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.098%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (29.24%) NoSQL
2 389 (19.02%) Big Data
3 164 (8.02%) Hadoop
4 125 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
5 120 (5.87%) Apache Cassandra
6 113 (5.53%) Apache Hive
7 98 (4.79%) Relational Database
8 91 (4.45%) HBase
9 65 (3.18%) Metadata
10 62 (3.03%) MongoDB
11 57 (2.79%) Data Lake
12 45 (2.20%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (1.91%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.86%) CockroachDB
15 29 (1.42%) MySQL
16 24 (1.17%) DB2
17 21 (1.03%) Hazelcast
17 21 (1.03%) RDBMS
18 17 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
19 16 (0.78%) Looker
Development Applications
1 263 (12.86%) Jenkins
2 194 (9.49%) JUnit
3 184 (9.00%) Git
4 105 (5.13%) Jasmine
5 81 (3.96%) Bitbucket Server
6 71 (3.47%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.18%) Artifactory
7 65 (3.18%) Bitbucket
8 63 (3.08%) Selenium
9 60 (2.93%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (2.93%) Protractor
9 60 (2.93%) WebDriver
10 59 (2.89%) Maven
11 48 (2.35%) Mockito
12 29 (1.42%) JMeter
13 25 (1.22%) Android Studio
14 24 (1.17%) Gradle
15 21 (1.03%) Jaeger
16 19 (0.93%) JIRA
17 14 (0.68%) CircleCI
General
1 1,935 (94.62%) Finance
2 1,906 (93.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,893 (92.57%) Law
4 985 (48.17%) Marketing
5 571 (27.92%) Legal
6 329 (16.09%) Banking
7 281 (13.74%) Investment Banking
8 213 (10.42%) Financial Institution
9 191 (9.34%) Social Skills
10 157 (7.68%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (1.96%) Private Banking
12 33 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
13 31 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.27%) Games
15 22 (1.08%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (0.98%) Front Office
17 15 (0.73%) Publishing
18 10 (0.49%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.49%) Public Sector
19 9 (0.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,710 (83.62%) Software Engineer
2 639 (31.25%) Java Engineer
2 639 (31.25%) Java Software Engineer
3 603 (29.49%) Lead
4 567 (27.73%) Lead Software Engineer
5 312 (15.26%) Big Data Engineer
5 312 (15.26%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 309 (15.11%) Python Engineer
6 309 (15.11%) Python Software Engineer
7 273 (13.35%) Full Stack Engineer
7 273 (13.35%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 262 (12.81%) AWS Engineer
8 262 (12.81%) AWS Software Engineer
9 227 (11.10%) Lead Java Engineer
10 215 (10.51%) Senior
11 204 (9.98%) Scala Engineer
11 204 (9.98%) Scala Software Engineer
12 186 (9.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 183 (8.95%) Data Engineer
14 151 (7.38%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (24.74%) Spring
2 439 (21.47%) React
3 349 (17.07%) AngularJS
4 286 (13.99%) Kafka
5 241 (11.78%) Spring Boot
6 236 (11.54%) J2EE
7 222 (10.86%) HTML
8 204 (9.98%) JSON
9 192 (9.39%) Hibernate
10 191 (9.34%) CSS
11 187 (9.14%) Node.js
12 170 (8.31%) RESTful
13 166 (8.12%) JMS
13 166 (8.12%) PySpark
14 163 (7.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 138 (6.75%) jQuery
16 132 (6.45%) Web Services
17 123 (6.01%) GraphQL
18 105 (5.13%) XML
19 100 (4.89%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 684 (33.45%) Algorithms
2 634 (31.00%) Cloud Native
3 185 (9.05%) Public Cloud
4 141 (6.89%) Onboarding
5 117 (5.72%) Management Information System
6 115 (5.62%) Reference Data
7 87 (4.25%) Data Structures
8 80 (3.91%) Market Risk
9 65 (3.18%) Enterprise Cloud
10 64 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
11 39 (1.91%) Product Ownership
12 22 (1.08%) Credit Risk
13 21 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.03%) Replication
14 20 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.54%) Mainframe
15 11 (0.54%) VSAM
16 9 (0.44%) Private Cloud
17 8 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 121 (5.92%) Unix
2 105 (5.13%) Linux
3 25 (1.22%) Android
4 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.20%) Windows
6 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,935 (94.62%) Agile
2 1,908 (93.30%) Software Engineering
3 1,682 (82.25%) CI/CD
4 1,581 (77.31%) Operational Stability
5 1,145 (55.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,130 (55.26%) Community of Practice
7 1,128 (55.16%) Machine Learning
8 713 (34.87%) Visualisation
9 687 (33.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 596 (29.14%) Risk Management
11 421 (20.59%) Microservices
12 408 (19.95%) Continuous Delivery
13 407 (19.90%) Decision-Making
14 344 (16.82%) Architectural Design
14 344 (16.82%) Information Architecture
15 317 (15.50%) Full Stack Development
16 285 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
17 263 (12.86%) Computer Science
18 216 (10.56%) Test Automation
19 214 (10.46%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,300 (63.57%) Java
2 897 (43.86%) SQL
3 744 (36.38%) Python
4 283 (13.84%) JavaScript
5 280 (13.69%) Scala
6 199 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 137 (6.70%) PL/SQL
8 75 (3.67%) Go
9 65 (3.18%) Prolog
9 65 (3.18%) SPARQL
10 52 (2.54%) C#
11 37 (1.81%) Groovy
12 27 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.68%) Ruby
15 11 (0.54%) COBOL
15 11 (0.54%) JCL
16 6 (0.29%) C
16 6 (0.29%) Embedded C
16 6 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (4.01%) Degree
2 45 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (1.66%) Master's Degree
4 12 (0.59%) Azure Certification
4 12 (0.59%) SC Cleared
4 12 (0.59%) Security Cleared
5 8 (0.39%) AWS Certification
5 8 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (0.39%) CISSP
6 6 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (0.29%) CISM
7 5 (0.24%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.24%) PMP
8 4 (0.20%) CCNA
8 4 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.20%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.049%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.049%) CBAP
9 1 (0.049%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (2.35%) SLA
2 40 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 16 (0.78%) QA
6 15 (0.73%) PMO
7 6 (0.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.098%) SEPA
System Software
1 91 (4.45%) HDFS
2 65 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.71%) Docker
4 11 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
5 8 (0.39%) Firmware
6 2 (0.098%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 310 (15.16%) Kubernetes
2 189 (9.24%) Terraform
3 127 (6.21%) Grafana
4 62 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.03%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.03%) Kibana
5 21 (1.03%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.34%) Graphite
7 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.098%) Ansible
9 2 (0.098%) Istio
Vendors
1 331 (16.19%) Oracle
2 207 (10.12%) Databricks
3 131 (6.41%) Splunk
4 123 (6.01%) Dynatrace
5 82 (4.01%) Informatica
6 61 (2.98%) Cloudera
7 56 (2.74%) Google
8 52 (2.54%) Alteryx
9 26 (1.27%) Qualtrics
10 21 (1.03%) Microsoft
11 18 (0.88%) Atlassian
12 15 (0.73%) Sybase
13 14 (0.68%) Pega
14 13 (0.64%) Cognos
15 9 (0.44%) TOWER Software
16 8 (0.39%) Sparx
17 6 (0.29%) NVIDIA
17 6 (0.29%) SAP
18 4 (0.20%) Cisco
18 4 (0.20%) CyberArk