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

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 38 50
Rank change year-on-year +31 +12 -12
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 2,125 299 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.86% 6.94% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 34.09% 7.35% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 89 184 236
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £40,000
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 £82,000 £79,206 £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 6,233 4,070 5,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.50% 94.41% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,512 2,039 2,866
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
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 5 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 5 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 +44 2,026 £65,000 +13.04% 16
Edinburgh -16 72 £82,788 +19.21% 20
Aberdeen -13 9 £47,500 -21.88% 2
Dundee -10 6 £50,000 -31.03%
Aberdeenshire +6 3 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Fife -8 3 £50,000 -9.09%
Stirling - 3 £50,000 - 1
Falkirk - 3 £50,000 - 1
West Lothian -5 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
1 501 (23.58%) Apache Spark
2 113 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (4.71%) Apache
4 98 (4.61%) FileNet
5 21 (0.99%) GemFire
6 17 (0.80%) Camunda
6 17 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (0.52%) CICS
8 10 (0.47%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.24%) Confluence
10 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.094%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.047%) Tuxedo
13 1 (0.047%) WildFly
Applications
1 29 (1.36%) UserZoom
2 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.047%) Maximo
2 1 (0.047%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (48.94%) AWS
2 133 (6.26%) Azure
3 98 (4.61%) Amazon S3
4 93 (4.38%) GCP
5 91 (4.28%) Datadog
6 72 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
8 52 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 51 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
10 48 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
10 48 (2.26%) Amazon EMR
10 48 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (2.26%) GitHub
10 48 (2.26%) Serverless
11 32 (1.51%) Figma
12 30 (1.41%) BlazeMeter
13 29 (1.36%) SurveyMonkey
14 25 (1.18%) Google Play
15 12 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.86%) Kerberos
2 15 (0.71%) DSL
3 8 (0.38%) BGP
3 8 (0.38%) DNS
3 8 (0.38%) SSL
3 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.28%) HTTP
4 6 (0.28%) MQTT
5 5 (0.24%) Firewall
6 4 (0.19%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.094%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 624 (29.36%) NoSQL
2 411 (19.34%) Big Data
3 175 (8.24%) Hadoop
4 127 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
5 120 (5.65%) Apache Cassandra
5 120 (5.65%) Apache Hive
6 107 (5.04%) Relational Database
7 96 (4.52%) HBase
8 69 (3.25%) MongoDB
9 65 (3.06%) Metadata
10 59 (2.78%) Data Lake
11 48 (2.26%) Electronic Patient Records
12 39 (1.84%) Qlik Sense
13 38 (1.79%) CockroachDB
14 29 (1.36%) MySQL
15 26 (1.22%) DB2
16 21 (0.99%) Hazelcast
16 21 (0.99%) RDBMS
17 18 (0.85%) Looker
18 17 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 273 (12.85%) Jenkins
2 197 (9.27%) JUnit
3 186 (8.75%) Git
4 105 (4.94%) Jasmine
5 83 (3.91%) Bitbucket Server
6 71 (3.34%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.06%) Artifactory
7 65 (3.06%) Bitbucket
8 63 (2.96%) Selenium
9 62 (2.92%) Maven
10 60 (2.82%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (2.82%) Protractor
10 60 (2.82%) WebDriver
11 48 (2.26%) Mockito
12 29 (1.36%) JMeter
13 27 (1.27%) Gradle
14 25 (1.18%) Android Studio
15 21 (0.99%) Jaeger
16 20 (0.94%) JIRA
17 17 (0.80%) Travis CI
General
1 2,017 (94.92%) Finance
2 1,987 (93.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,974 (92.89%) Law
4 1,033 (48.61%) Marketing
5 591 (27.81%) Legal
6 348 (16.38%) Banking
7 291 (13.69%) Investment Banking
8 228 (10.73%) Financial Institution
9 197 (9.27%) Social Skills
10 168 (7.91%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (2.26%) Private Banking
12 35 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
13 34 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.22%) Games
15 22 (1.04%) Prime Brokerage
16 20 (0.94%) Front Office
17 15 (0.71%) Publishing
18 10 (0.47%) Manufacturing
19 9 (0.42%) Aviation
19 9 (0.42%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1,779 (83.72%) Software Engineer
2 669 (31.48%) Java Engineer
2 669 (31.48%) Java Software Engineer
3 630 (29.65%) Lead
4 594 (27.95%) Lead Software Engineer
5 326 (15.34%) Big Data Engineer
5 326 (15.34%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 317 (14.92%) Python Engineer
6 317 (14.92%) Python Software Engineer
7 287 (13.51%) Full Stack Engineer
7 287 (13.51%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 279 (13.13%) AWS Engineer
8 279 (13.13%) AWS Software Engineer
9 234 (11.01%) Lead Java Engineer
10 223 (10.49%) Senior
11 216 (10.16%) Scala Engineer
11 216 (10.16%) Scala Software Engineer
12 194 (9.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 187 (8.80%) Data Engineer
14 159 (7.48%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 527 (24.80%) Spring
2 453 (21.32%) React
3 361 (16.99%) AngularJS
4 291 (13.69%) Kafka
5 255 (12.00%) Spring Boot
6 241 (11.34%) J2EE
7 227 (10.68%) HTML
8 204 (9.60%) JSON
9 196 (9.22%) CSS
10 192 (9.04%) Hibernate
11 188 (8.85%) Node.js
12 174 (8.19%) RESTful
13 170 (8.00%) PySpark
14 169 (7.95%) JMS
15 163 (7.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 138 (6.49%) jQuery
17 136 (6.40%) Web Services
18 123 (5.79%) GraphQL
19 108 (5.08%) XML
20 100 (4.71%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 705 (33.18%) Algorithms
2 651 (30.64%) Cloud Native
3 205 (9.65%) Public Cloud
4 149 (7.01%) Onboarding
5 121 (5.69%) Management Information System
6 118 (5.55%) Reference Data
7 89 (4.19%) Data Structures
8 83 (3.91%) Market Risk
9 65 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
10 64 (3.01%) Distributed Applications
11 43 (2.02%) Product Ownership
12 22 (1.04%) Credit Risk
13 21 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (0.99%) Replication
14 20 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (0.56%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.52%) Mainframe
16 11 (0.52%) VSAM
17 8 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 125 (5.88%) Unix
2 108 (5.08%) Linux
3 25 (1.18%) Android
4 8 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.19%) Windows
6 1 (0.047%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,017 (94.92%) Agile
2 1,986 (93.46%) Software Engineering
3 1,746 (82.16%) CI/CD
4 1,650 (77.65%) Operational Stability
5 1,190 (56.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,173 (55.20%) Machine Learning
7 1,169 (55.01%) Community of Practice
8 740 (34.82%) Visualisation
9 708 (33.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 618 (29.08%) Risk Management
11 440 (20.71%) Microservices
12 429 (20.19%) Decision-Making
13 428 (20.14%) Continuous Delivery
14 358 (16.85%) Architectural Design
14 358 (16.85%) Information Architecture
15 330 (15.53%) Full Stack Development
16 300 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
17 271 (12.75%) Computer Science
18 227 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
19 226 (10.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,366 (64.28%) Java
2 944 (44.42%) SQL
3 782 (36.80%) Python
4 296 (13.93%) Scala
5 288 (13.55%) JavaScript
6 205 (9.65%) TypeScript
7 142 (6.68%) PL/SQL
8 78 (3.67%) Go
9 65 (3.06%) Prolog
9 65 (3.06%) SPARQL
10 53 (2.49%) C#
11 37 (1.74%) Groovy
12 27 (1.27%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.80%) Ruby
15 11 (0.52%) COBOL
15 11 (0.52%) JCL
16 6 (0.28%) C
16 6 (0.28%) Embedded C
16 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (4.09%) Degree
2 45 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (1.60%) Master's Degree
4 12 (0.56%) Azure Certification
5 11 (0.52%) SC Cleared
5 11 (0.52%) Security Cleared
6 8 (0.38%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (0.38%) CISSP
7 6 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (0.28%) CISM
8 5 (0.24%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.24%) PMP
9 4 (0.19%) CCNA
9 4 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.19%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.047%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.047%) CBAP
10 1 (0.047%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (2.49%) SLA
2 45 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 32 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 17 (0.80%) PMO
6 16 (0.75%) QA
7 6 (0.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.094%) SEPA
System Software
1 96 (4.52%) HDFS
2 65 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.60%) Docker
4 11 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
5 8 (0.38%) Firmware
6 2 (0.094%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 317 (14.92%) Kubernetes
2 200 (9.41%) Terraform
3 132 (6.21%) Grafana
4 62 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.99%) HAProxy
5 21 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (0.99%) Kibana
5 21 (0.99%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.33%) Graphite
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.094%) Ansible
9 2 (0.094%) Istio
Vendors
1 342 (16.09%) Oracle
2 216 (10.16%) Databricks
3 136 (6.40%) Splunk
4 128 (6.02%) Dynatrace
5 84 (3.95%) Informatica
6 66 (3.11%) Cloudera
7 56 (2.64%) Google
8 54 (2.54%) Alteryx
9 29 (1.36%) Qualtrics
10 21 (0.99%) Microsoft
11 20 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 17 (0.80%) Pega
13 16 (0.75%) Sybase
14 15 (0.71%) Cognos
15 9 (0.42%) TOWER Software
16 8 (0.38%) Sparx
17 6 (0.28%) NVIDIA
17 6 (0.28%) SAP
18 4 (0.19%) Cisco
18 4 (0.19%) CyberArk