SDLC Jobs with Work from Home Options

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 80 59
Rank change year-on-year -7 -21 +19
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 1,175 1,589 4,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.44% 3.97% 5.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 4.13% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 656 1,200 2,228
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,975 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £47,217
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,688 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,217 £96,250 £97,290
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,945 38,441 70,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.67% 96.05% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 23,414 26,713 41,519
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

SDLC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SDLC trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDLC
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDLC.

SDLC salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDLC
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SDLC over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

SDLC salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 46 (3.91%) WebLogic
2 41 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.77%) Apache
4 9 (0.77%) Confluence
5 8 (0.68%) nginx
6 7 (0.60%) SAS
7 6 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.085%) Appian
10 1 (0.085%) CMS
10 1 (0.085%) GemFire
10 1 (0.085%) IIS
10 1 (0.085%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.085%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 19 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.51%) SPSS
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (4.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 38 (3.23%) Endur
3 7 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.43%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 3 (0.26%) Relativity
7 2 (0.17%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.085%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.085%) Ringtail
8 1 (0.085%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 393 (33.45%) Azure
2 264 (22.47%) AWS
3 108 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
4 83 (7.06%) SaaS
5 52 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
6 51 (4.34%) GCP
7 46 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
8 41 (3.49%) PaaS
9 32 (2.72%) Power Platform
10 31 (2.64%) GitHub
10 31 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (2.13%) Serverless
12 24 (2.04%) IaaS
13 21 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (1.11%) Entra ID
14 13 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (0.85%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.68%) TCP/IP
2 51 (4.34%) DNS
3 46 (3.91%) BGP
3 46 (3.91%) SSL
4 9 (0.77%) NGFW
4 9 (0.77%) VPN
5 8 (0.68%) Internet
5 8 (0.68%) VoIP
6 7 (0.60%) HTTP
6 7 (0.60%) MQTT
6 7 (0.60%) Network Security
7 6 (0.51%) AMQP
8 5 (0.43%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.43%) RS-232
8 5 (0.43%) RS-485
8 5 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.43%) Wireless
8 5 (0.43%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.34%) Profibus
9 4 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (14.21%) SQL Server
2 136 (11.57%) Relational Database
3 88 (7.49%) RDBMS
4 56 (4.77%) MySQL
5 48 (4.09%) Oracle Database
6 47 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (1.70%) Power BI
8 18 (1.53%) Redis
9 17 (1.45%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.94%) Big Data
11 11 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.77%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.68%) Couchbase
13 8 (0.68%) MS Access
13 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.51%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 103 (8.77%) JIRA
2 60 (5.11%) Git
3 36 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.96%) Maven
5 19 (1.62%) JUnit
6 17 (1.45%) Postman
7 14 (1.19%) GitLab
8 12 (1.02%) Selenium
8 12 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.85%) Eclipse
10 9 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.77%) NUnit
10 9 (0.77%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.77%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.60%) JMeter
12 6 (0.51%) Mocha
12 6 (0.51%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.43%) LabVIEW
13 5 (0.43%) MSTest
General
1 271 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 187 (15.91%) Finance
3 102 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.47%) Marketing
5 64 (5.45%) Aerospace
6 59 (5.02%) Retail
7 57 (4.85%) Legal
8 55 (4.68%) Banking
9 52 (4.43%) Games
10 36 (3.06%) Law
11 31 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (2.47%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.30%) Electronics
14 23 (1.96%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.70%) Publishing
16 19 (1.62%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (1.11%) Aviation
19 13 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 291 (24.77%) Developer
2 213 (18.13%) Project Manager
3 199 (16.94%) Senior
4 159 (13.53%) Presales Manager
4 159 (13.53%) Software Engineer
5 157 (13.36%) Lead
6 98 (8.34%) Architect
7 90 (7.66%) Analyst
8 87 (7.40%) Senior Developer
9 86 (7.32%) .NET Developer
10 67 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 65 (5.53%) Software Developer
12 63 (5.36%) Business Analyst
13 60 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
14 48 (4.09%) Lead Architect
15 47 (4.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 43 (3.66%) Java Developer
17 42 (3.57%) C# Developer
17 42 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
18 38 (3.23%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (22.98%) .NET
2 134 (11.40%) AngularJS
3 129 (10.98%) React
4 103 (8.77%) ASP.NET
5 92 (7.83%) .NET Framework
6 89 (7.57%) Spring Boot
7 86 (7.32%) .NET Core
8 78 (6.64%) Spring
9 63 (5.36%) RESTful
10 62 (5.28%) ASP.NET Web API
11 61 (5.19%) HTML
12 56 (4.77%) CSS
12 56 (4.77%) REST
13 53 (4.51%) Entity Framework
14 52 (4.43%) ASP.NET MVC
14 52 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (3.40%) JSON
15 40 (3.40%) Web Services
16 37 (3.15%) SOAP
16 37 (3.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 69 (5.87%) Enterprise Software
2 68 (5.79%) Public Cloud
3 63 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.23%) Swaptions
5 37 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
6 35 (2.98%) Social Network
7 31 (2.64%) Cloud Native
8 28 (2.38%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (2.21%) Virtual Team
10 24 (2.04%) Client/Server
11 21 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
12 19 (1.62%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.45%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (1.19%) Private Cloud
17 12 (1.02%) IoT
17 12 (1.02%) Onboarding
18 11 (0.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 137 (11.66%) Linux
2 50 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 42 (3.57%) Windows
4 13 (1.11%) Unix
5 9 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
6 7 (0.60%) Android
7 6 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.43%) ThreadX
9 4 (0.34%) VxWorks
10 3 (0.26%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.085%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (63.66%) Agile
2 318 (27.06%) Project Management
3 296 (25.19%) DevOps
4 291 (24.77%) Software Engineering
5 259 (22.04%) Actionable Insight
6 221 (18.81%) Project Delivery
7 215 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
8 194 (16.51%) Scrum
9 181 (15.40%) CI/CD
10 180 (15.32%) Presales
10 180 (15.32%) Software Delivery
11 179 (15.23%) Agile Project Management
12 162 (13.79%) Full Stack Development
13 140 (11.91%) Collaborative Working
14 138 (11.74%) Kanban
15 105 (8.94%) Microservices
16 98 (8.34%) Mentoring
17 93 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 92 (7.83%) Computer Science
19 88 (7.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 253 (21.53%) C#
2 224 (19.06%) SQL
3 220 (18.72%) JavaScript
4 179 (15.23%) Java
5 111 (9.45%) Python
6 63 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 54 (4.60%) C
8 49 (4.17%) VB
9 38 (3.23%) C++
10 33 (2.81%) T-SQL
11 25 (2.13%) PowerShell
12 18 (1.53%) PHP
13 17 (1.45%) Groovy
14 11 (0.94%) Bash
14 11 (0.94%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.94%) RPG
15 9 (0.77%) Go
16 5 (0.43%) Bicep
16 5 (0.43%) VBA
17 4 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 180 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 155 (13.19%) Degree
3 83 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 58 (4.94%) Azure Certification
6 50 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 48 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 43 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.87%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.87%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 16 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.94%) ISEB
13 11 (0.94%) PMP
14 10 (0.85%) CISSP
14 10 (0.85%) GIAC
15 6 (0.51%) CISM
15 6 (0.51%) SANS
16 5 (0.43%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (10.81%) QA
2 14 (1.19%) PMO
3 12 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (0.85%) NIST
5 6 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.51%) COBIT
5 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.51%) ISO 9000
5 6 (0.51%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.43%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.34%) ISO 13485
7 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.17%) SEPA
9 1 (0.085%) AQAP
9 1 (0.085%) GDPR
9 1 (0.085%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.085%) TickIT
System Software
1 144 (12.26%) Docker
2 32 (2.72%) Firmware
3 17 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.02%) vSphere
5 9 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.60%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.085%) GridGain
9 1 (0.085%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 131 (11.15%) Kubernetes
2 99 (8.43%) Terraform
3 64 (5.45%) Ansible
4 17 (1.45%) Grafana
5 9 (0.77%) Kibana
6 8 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.26%) Argo
8 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.26%) Puppet
9 2 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.085%) Packer
Vendors
1 152 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.51%) Oracle
3 48 (4.09%) Sparx
4 38 (3.23%) OpenLink
4 38 (3.23%) Sybase
4 38 (3.23%) TIBCO
5 29 (2.47%) Google
6 23 (1.96%) SAP
7 17 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.11%) VMware
9 9 (0.77%) BT
9 9 (0.77%) Citrix
9 9 (0.77%) NVIDIA
10 8 (0.68%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.43%) Databricks
12 5 (0.43%) IBM
13 4 (0.34%) Facebook
13 4 (0.34%) QNX
13 4 (0.34%) Splunk