SDLC Jobs in the UK excluding London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 43 64
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 -4
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 3,822 3,755 3,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.22% 6.43% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 6.73% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 1,585 2,129
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,529 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -2.72% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,593 55,780 68,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.77% 95.57% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 41,777 28,809 41,151
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Scotland +27 2,230 £65,000 -1.52% 48
North of England -75 413 £55,000 -4.35% 119
South East -54 389 £57,500 - 164
South West -34 266 £57,500 +2.68% 69
Midlands -94 256 £55,000 - 96
North West -70 254 £60,000 +9.09% 79
East of England -39 145 £50,000 -13.04% 34
West Midlands -102 144 £57,500 - 61
Yorkshire -72 113 £50,000 -13.04% 28
East Midlands -59 111 £50,000 -9.09% 34
Wales +31 89 £50,000 +11.11% 14
North East -6 46 £61,250 +6.52% 13
Northern Ireland +21 33 £56,250 -2.17% 19
Isle of Man - 3 - -
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 540 (14.13%) Apache Spark
2 117 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 114 (2.98%) Apache
4 98 (2.56%) FileNet
5 54 (1.41%) Camunda
6 42 (1.10%) WebLogic
7 36 (0.94%) nginx
8 28 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 24 (0.63%) Confluence
10 21 (0.55%) GemFire
11 17 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
12 11 (0.29%) CICS
13 7 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
13 7 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.13%) OpenEdge
16 4 (0.10%) CMS
16 4 (0.10%) IIS
17 2 (0.052%) IBM Domino
17 2 (0.052%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.84%) UserZoom
4 28 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.16%) Simulink
8 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.10%) CA PPM
3 4 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.078%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.052%) SAP MII
5 2 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.026%) Maximo
6 1 (0.026%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.026%) Postilion
6 1 (0.026%) Primavera
6 1 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.026%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.026%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,385 (36.24%) AWS
2 536 (14.02%) Azure
3 147 (3.85%) GCP
4 133 (3.48%) Amazon S3
5 119 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
6 116 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (2.75%) SaaS
8 92 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
8 92 (2.41%) GitHub
9 91 (2.38%) Datadog
10 78 (2.04%) Serverless
11 77 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
12 71 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
14 63 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
15 54 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
16 53 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 50 (1.31%) Power Platform
18 47 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
19 38 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.15%) Kerberos
2 49 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 40 (1.05%) BGP
3 40 (1.05%) DNS
3 40 (1.05%) SSL
4 19 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (0.47%) DSL
6 16 (0.42%) Wireless
7 14 (0.37%) Bluetooth
8 13 (0.34%) Firewall
8 13 (0.34%) Network Security
9 9 (0.24%) HTTP
9 9 (0.24%) MQTT
9 9 (0.24%) NGFW
9 9 (0.24%) VPN
10 8 (0.21%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.21%) Profibus
11 7 (0.18%) Broadband
11 7 (0.18%) Internet
11 7 (0.18%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 679 (17.77%) NoSQL
2 451 (11.80%) Big Data
3 219 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 192 (5.02%) Hadoop
5 172 (4.50%) SQL Server
6 137 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
7 134 (3.51%) Apache Hive
8 123 (3.22%) MongoDB
9 120 (3.14%) Apache Cassandra
10 102 (2.67%) HBase
11 97 (2.54%) MySQL
12 88 (2.30%) RDBMS
13 85 (2.22%) Oracle Database
14 83 (2.17%) Metadata
15 72 (1.88%) Data Lake
16 65 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
17 53 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
18 51 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
19 49 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
20 39 (1.02%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 341 (8.92%) Jenkins
2 331 (8.66%) Git
3 217 (5.68%) JUnit
4 173 (4.53%) JIRA
5 105 (2.75%) Jasmine
6 86 (2.25%) Bitbucket Server
7 80 (2.09%) Selenium
8 79 (2.07%) Bitbucket
8 79 (2.07%) Cypress.io
8 79 (2.07%) Maven
9 67 (1.75%) Artifactory
10 60 (1.57%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (1.57%) Protractor
10 60 (1.57%) WebDriver
11 50 (1.31%) Mockito
12 44 (1.15%) Visual Studio
13 38 (0.99%) Postman
14 36 (0.94%) JMeter
15 33 (0.86%) Gradle
16 28 (0.73%) GitLab
General
1 2,342 (61.28%) Finance
2 2,206 (57.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,118 (55.42%) Law
4 1,151 (30.12%) Marketing
5 672 (17.58%) Legal
6 625 (16.35%) Social Skills
7 421 (11.02%) Banking
8 319 (8.35%) Investment Banking
9 251 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
10 247 (6.46%) Financial Institution
11 190 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
12 92 (2.41%) Retail
13 83 (2.17%) Public Sector
14 81 (2.12%) Aerospace
15 62 (1.62%) Electronics
16 58 (1.52%) Private Banking
17 57 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
18 51 (1.33%) Manufacturing
19 37 (0.97%) Telecoms
20 34 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,091 (54.71%) Software Engineer
2 827 (21.64%) Lead
3 717 (18.76%) Java Engineer
4 706 (18.47%) Java Software Engineer
5 628 (16.43%) Lead Software Engineer
6 510 (13.34%) Developer
7 480 (12.56%) Senior
8 361 (9.45%) Full Stack Engineer
9 347 (9.08%) Big Data Engineer
9 347 (9.08%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 337 (8.82%) Python Engineer
11 331 (8.66%) Python Software Engineer
12 312 (8.16%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 302 (7.90%) AWS Engineer
14 299 (7.82%) AWS Software Engineer
15 278 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
16 247 (6.46%) Lead Java Engineer
17 228 (5.97%) Project Manager
17 228 (5.97%) Scala Engineer
17 228 (5.97%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (16.59%) Spring
2 620 (16.22%) React
3 514 (13.45%) AngularJS
4 374 (9.79%) .NET
5 358 (9.37%) Spring Boot
6 323 (8.45%) Kafka
7 320 (8.37%) HTML
8 284 (7.43%) JSON
9 283 (7.40%) CSS
10 266 (6.96%) Node.js
11 252 (6.59%) RESTful
12 249 (6.51%) J2EE
13 215 (5.63%) Hibernate
14 198 (5.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 196 (5.13%) Web Services
16 186 (4.87%) REST
17 174 (4.55%) PySpark
18 171 (4.47%) JMS
19 161 (4.21%) jQuery
20 150 (3.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 786 (20.57%) Algorithms
2 715 (18.71%) Cloud Native
3 289 (7.56%) Public Cloud
4 195 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 179 (4.68%) Product Ownership
6 160 (4.19%) Onboarding
7 124 (3.24%) Reference Data
8 102 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 90 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 89 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
11 86 (2.25%) Market Risk
12 69 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
13 65 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
14 63 (1.65%) Mobile App
15 47 (1.23%) Blockchain
16 44 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 43 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
18 42 (1.10%) e-Learning
19 35 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
20 33 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 293 (7.67%) Linux
2 147 (3.85%) Unix
3 62 (1.62%) Windows
4 46 (1.20%) Android
5 43 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.13%) ThreadX
10 4 (0.10%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.078%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.078%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.052%) Solaris
12 2 (0.052%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.052%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.026%) Debian
13 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.026%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,049 (79.77%) Agile
2 2,506 (65.57%) Software Engineering
3 2,067 (54.08%) CI/CD
4 1,756 (45.94%) Operational Stability
5 1,331 (34.82%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,273 (33.31%) Machine Learning
7 1,230 (32.18%) Community of Practice
8 906 (23.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 799 (20.91%) Visualisation
10 678 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
11 670 (17.53%) Risk Management
12 570 (14.91%) Microservices
13 557 (14.57%) Full Stack Development
14 522 (13.66%) Decision-Making
15 480 (12.56%) Continuous Delivery
16 475 (12.43%) DevOps
17 474 (12.40%) Computer Science
18 401 (10.49%) Test Automation
19 399 (10.44%) Architectural Design
20 397 (10.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,707 (44.66%) Java
2 1,272 (33.28%) SQL
3 997 (26.09%) Python
4 586 (15.33%) JavaScript
5 395 (10.33%) C#
6 335 (8.77%) Scala
7 262 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 160 (4.19%) PL/SQL
9 132 (3.45%) C
10 112 (2.93%) C++
11 100 (2.62%) Go
12 65 (1.70%) Prolog
12 65 (1.70%) SPARQL
13 57 (1.49%) Kotlin
14 55 (1.44%) PHP
15 54 (1.41%) Bash
16 40 (1.05%) T-SQL
17 37 (0.97%) Groovy
18 34 (0.89%) Lua
19 32 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 403 (10.54%) Degree
2 212 (5.55%) Security Cleared
3 159 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 94 (2.46%) SC Cleared
5 62 (1.62%) Master's Degree
6 56 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 54 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 40 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 35 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.52%) PMP
13 18 (0.47%) CISSP
13 18 (0.47%) ISEB
14 17 (0.44%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.31%) CISM
16 12 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.31%) PhD
17 7 (0.18%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (4.63%) QA
2 73 (1.91%) SLA
3 66 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.23%) PMO
6 32 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 21 (0.55%) NIST
8 17 (0.44%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.26%) ISO 9000
11 8 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (0.21%) IEC 62304
12 7 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.16%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.16%) TickIT
14 5 (0.13%) MISRA
15 4 (0.10%) GDPR
15 4 (0.10%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.078%) ISO 26262
16 3 (0.078%) SEPA
System Software
1 233 (6.10%) Docker
2 104 (2.72%) HDFS
3 78 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 57 (1.49%) Firmware
5 22 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
7 10 (0.26%) vSphere
8 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 457 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 315 (8.24%) Terraform
3 143 (3.74%) Grafana
4 72 (1.88%) Ansible
5 65 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.76%) Kibana
7 21 (0.55%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.55%) Zipkin
8 11 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.18%) Graphite
10 4 (0.10%) Argo
10 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.10%) Puppet
11 3 (0.078%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.078%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.052%) Istio
Vendors
1 454 (11.88%) Oracle
2 239 (6.25%) Databricks
3 220 (5.76%) Microsoft
4 146 (3.82%) Splunk
5 134 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 107 (2.80%) Google
7 91 (2.38%) Informatica
8 74 (1.94%) Cloudera
9 67 (1.75%) IBM
10 57 (1.49%) Alteryx
11 44 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 40 (1.05%) Sparx
13 39 (1.02%) SAP
14 32 (0.84%) Qualtrics
15 31 (0.81%) Atlassian
16 24 (0.63%) Salesforce
17 20 (0.52%) Pega
18 18 (0.47%) Cognos
18 18 (0.47%) Sybase
19 11 (0.29%) Citrix