SDLC Jobs in the West Midlands

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 22 73
Rank change year-on-year -92 +51 -42
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 142 620 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.92% 9.67% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 9.99% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 121 195 188
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +14.13%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £72,875
England median annual salary £61,500 £60,899 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.99% -6.31% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,111 6,208 6,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.83% 96.80% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,560 3,220 4,705
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,550 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +5.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham -51 75 £62,500 +8.70% 17
Warwickshire -10 18 £57,500 +8.49% 6
Staffordshire -24 18 £90,000 +125.00% 5
Solihull -6 15 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £45,000 -
Coventry -22 4 £47,500 -10.80% 11
Shropshire -9 2 £55,000 -
Worcestershire -28 2 £57,500 +35.29% 2
Walsall -11 1 £50,000 +4.17%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (0.70%) Confluence
1 1 (0.70%) NServiceBus
1 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.69%) Azure
2 28 (19.72%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (12.68%) AWS
4 15 (10.56%) PaaS
5 11 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.04%) IaaS
7 9 (6.34%) SaaS
8 6 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.52%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.52%) GCP
10 4 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (2.82%) GitHub
11 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.41%) Serverless
13 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.70%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.04%) NGFW
1 10 (7.04%) VPN
2 2 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.93%) MySQL
2 6 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.11%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (2.11%) Power BI
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.41%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.70%) Event Store
7 1 (0.70%) OLAP
7 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.70%) RavenDB
7 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) Git
2 9 (6.34%) Postman
3 5 (3.52%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.82%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.11%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.11%) JIRA
6 2 (1.41%) Toad
7 1 (0.70%) GitLab
7 1 (0.70%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.70%) Moq
7 1 (0.70%) NUnit
7 1 (0.70%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 47 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.01%) Finance
3 26 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (16.20%) Retail
5 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.52%) Digital Healthcare
6 5 (3.52%) Legal
7 4 (2.82%) Marketing
7 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Publishing
8 3 (2.11%) Automotive
8 3 (2.11%) Banking
8 3 (2.11%) Electronics
9 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (26.06%) Developer
2 25 (17.61%) Senior
3 19 (13.38%) Architect
4 16 (11.27%) Senior Developer
5 13 (9.15%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.45%) Project Manager
7 11 (7.75%) Citrix Architect
7 11 (7.75%) RPG Developer
8 10 (7.04%) Analyst
8 10 (7.04%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (7.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 10 (7.04%) DevOps Architect
9 8 (5.63%) .NET Developer
9 8 (5.63%) Lead
10 6 (4.23%) AS400 Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.23%) Head of Software Development
10 6 (4.23%) IT Manager
10 6 (4.23%) Technical Manager
10 6 (4.23%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.06%) .NET
2 22 (15.49%) JSON
3 17 (11.97%) .NET Core
4 14 (9.86%) .NET Framework
4 14 (9.86%) RESTful
5 13 (9.15%) SOAP
6 11 (7.75%) AngularJS
6 11 (7.75%) Vue
6 11 (7.75%) Web Services
7 10 (7.04%) ARM Templates
7 10 (7.04%) YAML
8 9 (6.34%) ASP.NET
8 9 (6.34%) React
8 9 (6.34%) XML
9 8 (5.63%) WCF
10 4 (2.82%) jQuery
10 4 (2.82%) REST
10 4 (2.82%) Spring
10 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.82%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.20%) Product Ownership
2 20 (14.08%) Mobile App
3 15 (10.56%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (9.86%) Public Cloud
5 11 (7.75%) AS400
5 11 (7.75%) iSeries
6 10 (7.04%) Private Cloud
6 10 (7.04%) Virtual Team
7 9 (6.34%) Cloud Native
8 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
9 5 (3.52%) Data Structures
9 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.82%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.41%) IoT
12 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.23%) Linux
2 5 (3.52%) Windows
3 3 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.11%) Unix
3 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (61.27%) Agile
2 48 (33.80%) DevOps
3 47 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (25.35%) Computer Science
5 33 (23.24%) Software Engineering
6 31 (21.83%) Mentoring
6 31 (21.83%) Test Automation
7 26 (18.31%) Software Testing
8 23 (16.20%) Project Management
8 23 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (14.79%) Roadmaps
10 20 (14.08%) Regression Testing
11 19 (13.38%) CI/CD
11 19 (13.38%) Test Strategy
12 18 (12.68%) Project Delivery
12 18 (12.68%) Resource Allocation
13 17 (11.97%) Functional Testing
14 16 (11.27%) Performance Metrics
15 15 (10.56%) Test Management
15 15 (10.56%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.06%) SQL
2 26 (18.31%) C#
3 21 (14.79%) JavaScript
4 11 (7.75%) RPG
4 11 (7.75%) RPG IV
4 11 (7.75%) RPG/400
5 10 (7.04%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.34%) Java
6 9 (6.34%) Python
7 5 (3.52%) C
7 5 (3.52%) PHP
7 5 (3.52%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.82%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.41%) C++
9 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.70%) VB
10 1 (0.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 44 (30.99%) Degree
2 19 (13.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.45%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.75%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.52%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.82%) HNC
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.20%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) ITGC
2 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (7.04%) Virtual Desktop
1 10 (7.04%) VMware ESXi
1 10 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (7.04%) vSphere
2 6 (4.23%) Docker
3 5 (3.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (10.56%) Terraform
2 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Grafana
3 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (9.86%) IBM
2 11 (7.75%) Citrix
3 10 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.04%) VMware
4 5 (3.52%) Google
4 5 (3.52%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.11%) InterSystems
6 2 (1.41%) Informatica
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle
6 2 (1.41%) SAP
7 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.70%) Splunk
7 1 (0.70%) Xamarin