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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 45 66
Rank change year-on-year -74 +21 +3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,052 5,294 7,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.35% 6.04% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 6.32% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 2,419 3,765
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -6.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,031 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,325 £96,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,850 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.64% +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 73,974 83,734 131,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.66% 95.60% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 54,131 49,663 73,196
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 23 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 23 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 -74 570 £80,000 +4.58% 198
North of England -74 413 £55,000 -4.35% 112
South East -52 383 £57,500 - 76
South West -33 266 £57,500 +3.60% 67
Midlands -97 255 £55,000 - 89
North West -72 254 £60,000 +9.09% 74
East of England -48 145 £50,000 -13.04% 26
West Midlands -97 144 £57,500 - 59
Yorkshire -73 113 £50,000 -13.04% 31
East Midlands -52 110 £50,000 -9.09% 30
North East -5 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 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
1 45 (2.19%) nginx
2 38 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.75%) Camunda
4 31 (1.51%) Apache
5 30 (1.46%) WebLogic
6 28 (1.36%) Confluence
7 24 (1.17%) Apache Spark
8 18 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
9 16 (0.78%) SAS
10 9 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.34%) Apache Pig
12 5 (0.24%) CMS
12 5 (0.24%) OpenEdge
13 4 (0.19%) Drupal
13 4 (0.19%) IIS
14 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
15 2 (0.097%) EPiServer
15 2 (0.097%) GlassFish
15 2 (0.097%) JCAPS
Applications
1 61 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.73%) SPSS
7 6 (0.29%) Simulink
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (2.00%) Endur
2 30 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.24%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.19%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.19%) Relativity
7 3 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.097%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.097%) SAP MII
8 2 (0.097%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.097%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.097%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 1 (0.049%) Data Workbench
9 1 (0.049%) Postilion
9 1 (0.049%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 538 (26.22%) Azure
2 445 (21.69%) AWS
3 142 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (5.95%) SaaS
5 101 (4.92%) GCP
6 70 (3.41%) GitHub
7 63 (3.07%) Power Platform
8 62 (3.02%) Serverless
9 48 (2.34%) IBM Cloud
10 46 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (2.19%) PaaS
12 43 (2.10%) Amazon S3
13 42 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
14 38 (1.85%) OpenShift
14 38 (1.85%) PowerApps
15 35 (1.71%) Amazon Kinesis
16 32 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (1.56%) IaaS
17 31 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (1.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 40 (1.95%) DNS
3 30 (1.46%) SSL
4 28 (1.36%) BGP
5 19 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (0.78%) Firewall
6 16 (0.78%) Network Security
6 16 (0.78%) Wireless
7 15 (0.73%) Internet
8 14 (0.68%) Bluetooth
8 14 (0.68%) VPN
9 9 (0.44%) NGFW
9 9 (0.44%) VoIP
10 8 (0.39%) Broadband
11 7 (0.34%) RS-485
12 6 (0.29%) AMQP
12 6 (0.29%) ZigBee
13 5 (0.24%) Multicast
13 5 (0.24%) RS-232
14 3 (0.15%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (11.01%) SQL Server
2 168 (8.19%) Relational Database
3 107 (5.21%) RDBMS
4 94 (4.58%) MySQL
5 76 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 69 (3.36%) Oracle Database
6 69 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 66 (3.22%) NoSQL
8 60 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 54 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
10 53 (2.58%) Big Data
11 44 (2.14%) Power BI
12 35 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 33 (1.61%) Metadata
14 29 (1.41%) Redis
15 21 (1.02%) Data Lake
16 19 (0.93%) Apache Hive
16 19 (0.93%) Hadoop
17 18 (0.88%) BigQuery
18 15 (0.73%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 186 (9.06%) JIRA
2 178 (8.67%) Git
3 92 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.95%) Postman
4 40 (1.95%) Visual Studio
5 38 (1.85%) GitLab
6 30 (1.46%) JUnit
7 23 (1.12%) Selenium
8 21 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 20 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
10 19 (0.93%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.88%) Maven
12 17 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 17 (0.83%) NUnit
13 14 (0.68%) LabVIEW
13 14 (0.68%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.58%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.58%) Eclipse
14 12 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.54%) Mocha
General
1 554 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 379 (18.47%) Finance
3 258 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 119 (5.80%) Marketing
6 109 (5.31%) Banking
7 98 (4.78%) Retail
8 92 (4.48%) Legal
9 86 (4.19%) Public Sector
10 82 (4.00%) Aerospace
11 69 (3.36%) Law
12 55 (2.68%) Games
13 45 (2.19%) Electronics
14 41 (2.00%) Manufacturing
15 36 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.56%) Investment Banking
16 32 (1.56%) Telecoms
17 28 (1.36%) Retail Banking
18 26 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
19 19 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 537 (26.17%) Developer
2 356 (17.35%) Senior
3 260 (12.67%) Lead
4 252 (12.28%) Software Engineer
5 194 (9.45%) Project Manager
6 175 (8.53%) Analyst
7 152 (7.41%) Architect
8 116 (5.65%) Senior Developer
9 112 (5.46%) .NET Developer
9 112 (5.46%) Business Analyst
10 107 (5.21%) Software Developer
11 93 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 91 (4.43%) Presales Manager
13 86 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
14 83 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
15 75 (3.65%) Technical Leader
16 67 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
17 66 (3.22%) Software Manager
18 65 (3.17%) C# Developer
19 59 (2.88%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (20.03%) .NET
2 213 (10.38%) React
3 178 (8.67%) AngularJS
4 145 (7.07%) Spring Boot
5 134 (6.53%) .NET Framework
6 129 (6.29%) Spring
7 122 (5.95%) .NET Core
8 121 (5.90%) ASP.NET
9 112 (5.46%) REST
10 105 (5.12%) HTML
11 104 (5.07%) Node.js
12 99 (4.82%) JSON
13 98 (4.78%) CSS
14 89 (4.34%) RESTful
15 87 (4.24%) Kafka
16 80 (3.90%) Web Services
17 72 (3.51%) Vue
18 68 (3.31%) Entity Framework
19 65 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
20 62 (3.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 158 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 101 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
3 100 (4.87%) Management Information System
4 82 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 73 (3.56%) Mobile App
6 65 (3.17%) Cloud Native
7 61 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 59 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
9 56 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 55 (2.68%) Blockchain
11 48 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 46 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
13 44 (2.14%) e-Learning
13 44 (2.14%) Virtual Team
14 41 (2.00%) Swaptions
15 32 (1.56%) Social Network
16 30 (1.46%) Client/Server
17 24 (1.17%) IoT
18 22 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
19 21 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 187 (9.11%) Linux
2 74 (3.61%) Windows
3 33 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (1.56%) Android
5 21 (1.02%) Unix
6 19 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.24%) ThreadX
10 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.097%) VMS
11 2 (0.097%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.097%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.049%) Debian
12 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,171 (57.07%) Agile
2 536 (26.12%) DevOps
3 525 (25.58%) Software Engineering
4 465 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
5 410 (19.98%) Project Management
6 343 (16.72%) CI/CD
7 296 (14.42%) Scrum
8 270 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
9 255 (12.43%) Computer Science
10 254 (12.38%) Roadmaps
11 253 (12.33%) Mentoring
12 222 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 212 (10.33%) Microservices
14 198 (9.65%) Project Delivery
15 193 (9.41%) Test Automation
16 174 (8.48%) Actionable Insight
17 170 (8.28%) Kanban
18 160 (7.80%) Collaborative Working
19 151 (7.36%) Data Modelling
20 146 (7.12%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 459 (22.37%) Java
2 385 (18.76%) C#
3 369 (17.98%) SQL
4 356 (17.35%) JavaScript
5 267 (13.01%) Python
6 112 (5.46%) C++
7 95 (4.63%) C
8 89 (4.34%) TypeScript
9 70 (3.41%) PHP
10 61 (2.97%) VB
11 59 (2.88%) Kotlin
12 55 (2.68%) Bash
13 47 (2.29%) Go
14 42 (2.05%) PowerShell
15 38 (1.85%) Scala
16 36 (1.75%) Lua
17 22 (1.07%) RPG
18 21 (1.02%) Perl
18 21 (1.02%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 399 (19.44%) Degree
2 221 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 145 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 98 (4.78%) SC Cleared
5 66 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 49 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 36 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 35 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.22%) ISTQB
12 21 (1.02%) DBS Check
13 20 (0.97%) ISEB
14 18 (0.88%) PMP
15 16 (0.78%) CISSP
16 12 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.58%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.49%) PhD
19 8 (0.39%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (10.33%) QA
2 44 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 31 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.36%) PMO
5 20 (0.97%) NIST
6 12 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 12 (0.58%) SLA
7 10 (0.49%) ISO 9000
8 9 (0.44%) ISO 13485
9 8 (0.39%) IEC 62304
10 7 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.29%) GDPR
11 6 (0.29%) TickIT
12 5 (0.24%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 26262
14 2 (0.097%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 2 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 273 (13.30%) Docker
2 40 (1.95%) Firmware
3 22 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 17 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 17 (0.83%) HDFS
5 13 (0.63%) vSphere
6 12 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.049%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 215 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 153 (7.46%) Terraform
3 87 (4.24%) Ansible
4 15 (0.73%) Grafana
5 12 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.39%) Puppet
8 7 (0.34%) Kibana
9 5 (0.24%) Argo
9 5 (0.24%) Control-M
10 4 (0.19%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.19%) Packer
11 3 (0.15%) Salt
11 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.049%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 249 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 146 (7.12%) Oracle
3 72 (3.51%) Google
4 66 (3.22%) IBM
5 49 (2.39%) Red Hat
6 42 (2.05%) Sybase
7 41 (2.00%) OpenLink
7 41 (2.00%) TIBCO
8 39 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.85%) SAP
10 30 (1.46%) Sparx
11 28 (1.36%) Databricks
12 15 (0.73%) VMware
13 12 (0.58%) Citrix
14 11 (0.54%) BT
14 11 (0.54%) Nintex
15 10 (0.49%) Apple
15 10 (0.49%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.49%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.44%) Atlassian