Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 45 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 +3
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 4,491 6,129 8,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 6.07% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 6.35% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,538 2,930 4,224
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,124
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -2.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDLC.

Salary trend for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the UK

SDLC
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
UK excluding London +1 3,821 £55,000 -4.35% 434
Scotland +22 2,225 £65,000 -2.99% 41
England -73 2,060 £61,500 +0.99% 580
Work from Home -9 1,153 £60,000 -4.00% 314
London -75 573 £80,000 +3.23% 205
North of England -77 415 £57,500 - 102
South East -52 380 £57,500 - 89
South West -24 294 £60,000 +9.09% 62
North West -69 255 £60,000 +9.09% 59
Midlands -102 236 £57,500 +4.55% 81
East of England -44 145 £50,000 -13.04% 36
West Midlands -100 142 £57,500 - 49
Yorkshire -69 114 £50,000 -13.04% 33
East Midlands -69 94 £50,000 -9.09% 32
Wales +20 89 £50,000 +11.11% 15
North East 0 46 £61,250 +6.52% 10
Northern Ireland +30 37 £55,000 -4.35% 16
Isle of Man - 3 - -

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 560 (12.47%) Apache Spark
2 140 (3.12%) Apache
3 135 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.18%) FileNet
5 56 (1.25%) Camunda
6 54 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 49 (1.09%) WebLogic
8 45 (1.00%) nginx
9 39 (0.87%) SharePoint
10 35 (0.78%) Confluence
11 22 (0.49%) GemFire
12 17 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 16 (0.36%) SAS
14 11 (0.24%) CICS
15 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 8 (0.18%) Apache Pig
16 8 (0.18%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.16%) CMS
18 5 (0.11%) IIS
18 5 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 69 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.71%) UserZoom
4 31 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.33%) SPSS
8 6 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 43 (0.96%) Endur
3 14 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.16%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.089%) Relativity
8 3 (0.067%) CA PPM
8 3 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.067%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.045%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.045%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.045%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.045%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.045%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 1 (0.022%) Data Workbench
10 1 (0.022%) Postilion
10 1 (0.022%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 1,604 (35.72%) AWS
2 732 (16.30%) Azure
3 211 (4.70%) GCP
4 162 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
5 156 (3.47%) SaaS
6 141 (3.14%) Amazon S3
7 134 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
8 131 (2.92%) GitHub
9 115 (2.56%) Serverless
10 101 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
11 94 (2.09%) Datadog
12 82 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
12 82 (1.83%) Power Platform
13 77 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
15 68 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 65 (1.45%) PaaS
17 60 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
18 55 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
19 54 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 88 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 87 (1.94%) DNS
3 82 (1.83%) Kerberos
4 48 (1.07%) SSL
5 46 (1.02%) BGP
6 38 (0.85%) HTTP
7 29 (0.65%) DHCP
8 21 (0.47%) Firewall
9 19 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (0.40%) DSL
10 18 (0.40%) Network Security
11 17 (0.38%) Internet
11 17 (0.38%) VPN
12 16 (0.36%) Wireless
13 14 (0.31%) Bluetooth
14 12 (0.27%) NGFW
15 10 (0.22%) VoIP
16 9 (0.20%) MQTT
17 8 (0.18%) Broadband
17 8 (0.18%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 722 (16.08%) NoSQL
2 504 (11.22%) Big Data
3 304 (6.77%) Relational Database
4 255 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 210 (4.68%) Hadoop
6 151 (3.36%) Apache Hive
7 145 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 143 (3.18%) RDBMS
9 141 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
10 127 (2.83%) MySQL
11 121 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 102 (2.27%) HBase
13 96 (2.14%) Metadata
14 93 (2.07%) Oracle Database
15 86 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
16 85 (1.89%) Data Lake
17 76 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
19 59 (1.31%) Power BI
20 51 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 388 (8.64%) Git
2 387 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 230 (5.12%) JUnit
4 214 (4.77%) JIRA
5 106 (2.36%) Jasmine
6 89 (1.98%) Selenium
7 88 (1.96%) Cypress.io
8 87 (1.94%) Maven
9 86 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
10 82 (1.83%) Bitbucket
11 67 (1.49%) Artifactory
12 63 (1.40%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.34%) Karma Test Runner
13 60 (1.34%) Protractor
14 51 (1.14%) Postman
15 50 (1.11%) Mockito
16 45 (1.00%) Visual Studio
17 44 (0.98%) GitLab
18 39 (0.87%) JMeter
19 36 (0.80%) Gradle
General
1 2,565 (57.11%) Finance
2 2,279 (50.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,160 (48.10%) Law
4 1,225 (27.28%) Marketing
5 851 (18.95%) Social Skills
6 689 (15.34%) Legal
7 489 (10.89%) Banking
8 338 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
9 336 (7.48%) Investment Banking
10 250 (5.57%) Financial Institution
11 197 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
12 103 (2.29%) Public Sector
13 93 (2.07%) Retail
14 86 (1.91%) Aerospace
15 84 (1.87%) Games
16 75 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
17 63 (1.40%) Electronics
18 58 (1.29%) Private Banking
19 57 (1.27%) Manufacturing
20 38 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,133 (47.49%) Software Engineer
2 939 (20.91%) Lead
3 727 (16.19%) Java Engineer
4 711 (15.83%) Java Software Engineer
5 693 (15.43%) Developer
6 649 (14.45%) Senior
7 640 (14.25%) Lead Software Engineer
8 367 (8.17%) Full Stack Engineer
9 349 (7.77%) Python Engineer
10 347 (7.73%) Big Data Engineer
10 347 (7.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 335 (7.46%) Python Software Engineer
12 314 (6.99%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 305 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
14 299 (6.66%) AWS Software Engineer
15 290 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
16 279 (6.21%) Project Manager
17 248 (5.52%) Lead Java Engineer
18 228 (5.08%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (5.08%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 686 (15.27%) Spring
2 684 (15.23%) React
3 556 (12.38%) AngularJS
4 457 (10.18%) .NET
5 440 (9.80%) Spring Boot
6 394 (8.77%) Kafka
7 380 (8.46%) HTML
8 309 (6.88%) CSS
8 309 (6.88%) JSON
9 301 (6.70%) Node.js
10 272 (6.06%) RESTful
11 261 (5.81%) J2EE
12 235 (5.23%) Web Services
13 231 (5.14%) REST
14 227 (5.05%) Hibernate
15 205 (4.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 184 (4.10%) PySpark
17 173 (3.85%) JMS
17 173 (3.85%) XML
18 162 (3.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 790 (17.59%) Algorithms
2 782 (17.41%) Cloud Native
3 306 (6.81%) Public Cloud
4 225 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 222 (4.94%) Product Ownership
6 183 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 125 (2.78%) Reference Data
8 114 (2.54%) Data Structures
9 112 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
10 109 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
11 87 (1.94%) Market Risk
12 81 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
13 73 (1.63%) Mobile App
14 71 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
15 65 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
15 65 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
16 60 (1.34%) Blockchain
17 50 (1.11%) Virtual Team
18 48 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
19 45 (1.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 316 (7.04%) Linux
2 154 (3.43%) Unix
3 81 (1.80%) Windows
4 62 (1.38%) Android
5 50 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
9 7 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.11%) ThreadX
11 4 (0.089%) VxWorks
12 3 (0.067%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.067%) VMS
12 3 (0.067%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.045%) Solaris
13 2 (0.045%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.045%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.022%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,458 (77.00%) Agile
2 2,649 (58.98%) Software Engineering
3 2,186 (48.68%) CI/CD
4 1,767 (39.35%) Operational Stability
5 1,359 (30.26%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,306 (29.08%) Machine Learning
7 1,237 (27.54%) Community of Practice
8 972 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 834 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
10 815 (18.15%) Visualisation
11 698 (15.54%) Risk Management
12 687 (15.30%) Microservices
13 651 (14.50%) DevOps
14 640 (14.25%) Full Stack Development
15 553 (12.31%) Computer Science
16 552 (12.29%) Decision-Making
17 523 (11.65%) Project Management
18 511 (11.38%) Continuous Delivery
19 480 (10.69%) Test Automation
20 452 (10.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,932 (43.02%) Java
2 1,419 (31.60%) SQL
3 1,108 (24.67%) Python
4 674 (15.01%) JavaScript
5 488 (10.87%) C#
6 357 (7.95%) Scala
7 302 (6.72%) TypeScript
8 161 (3.58%) PL/SQL
9 136 (3.03%) C++
10 135 (3.01%) Go
11 128 (2.85%) C
12 86 (1.91%) Kotlin
13 76 (1.69%) PHP
14 66 (1.47%) VB
15 65 (1.45%) Prolog
15 65 (1.45%) SPARQL
16 61 (1.36%) Bash
17 51 (1.14%) PowerShell
18 49 (1.09%) T-SQL
19 38 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 496 (11.04%) Degree
2 271 (6.03%) Security Cleared
3 199 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 118 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 94 (2.09%) AWS Certification
6 89 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 78 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 74 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 71 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 45 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 30 (0.67%) CISSP
12 27 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 24 (0.53%) CISM
14 23 (0.51%) PMP
15 22 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.47%) DBS Check
17 18 (0.40%) ISEB
18 12 (0.27%) HNC
18 12 (0.27%) HND
18 12 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (4.94%) QA
2 79 (1.76%) Data Quality
3 73 (1.63%) SLA
4 61 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.09%) PMO
6 37 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.73%) NIST
8 32 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.38%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.31%) ISO 9000
11 12 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 8 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.18%) IEC 62304
13 7 (0.16%) COBIT
13 7 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.13%) TickIT
14 6 (0.13%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.11%) GDPR
15 5 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 328 (7.30%) Docker
2 120 (2.67%) HDFS
3 87 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 56 (1.25%) Firmware
5 22 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
6 17 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
10 6 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.045%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.022%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 563 (12.54%) Kubernetes
2 397 (8.84%) Terraform
3 160 (3.56%) Grafana
4 89 (1.98%) Ansible
5 74 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 34 (0.76%) Kibana
7 21 (0.47%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.47%) Zipkin
8 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.22%) Puppet
10 7 (0.16%) Graphite
11 6 (0.13%) Argo
11 6 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.11%) Control-M
12 5 (0.11%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.089%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.089%) Packer
14 3 (0.067%) Salt
14 3 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 531 (11.82%) Oracle
2 289 (6.44%) Microsoft
3 260 (5.79%) Databricks
4 152 (3.38%) Splunk
5 134 (2.98%) Dynatrace
5 134 (2.98%) Google
6 91 (2.03%) Informatica
7 82 (1.83%) Cloudera
8 73 (1.63%) IBM
9 62 (1.38%) Sybase
10 57 (1.27%) Alteryx
11 49 (1.09%) Red Hat
12 48 (1.07%) Sparx
13 44 (0.98%) SAP
14 43 (0.96%) OpenLink
14 43 (0.96%) Salesforce
14 43 (0.96%) TIBCO
15 33 (0.73%) Atlassian
16 32 (0.71%) Qualtrics
17 20 (0.45%) Pega