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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 52 66
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -10
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 3,716 3,042 3,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.70% 5.47% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% 5.72% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 1,542 2,140
10th Percentile £38,918 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,041 £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 £67,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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
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 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £80,250
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 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 9 June 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 9 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
Scotland +31 2,045 £65,000 - 40
North of England -57 431 £55,000 -4.35% 87
South East -56 393 £57,500 - 63
Midlands -77 298 £55,000 -0.90% 83
South West -27 274 £58,750 +1.95% 61
North West -48 266 £60,000 +9.09% 61
West Midlands -93 159 £57,500 - 52
East of England -49 146 £50,000 -13.04% 24
East Midlands -50 138 £50,000 -9.09% 31
Yorkshire -52 119 £50,000 -13.04% 20
Wales +32 92 £50,000 +11.11% 11
North East -16 46 £61,250 +6.52% 8
Northern Ireland +19 36 £53,750 -6.52% 17
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
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
1 480 (12.92%) Apache Spark
2 109 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (2.80%) Apache
4 98 (2.64%) FileNet
5 48 (1.29%) Camunda
6 42 (1.13%) WebLogic
7 36 (0.97%) nginx
8 28 (0.75%) SharePoint
9 22 (0.59%) Confluence
10 21 (0.57%) GemFire
11 17 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
12 11 (0.30%) CICS
13 7 (0.19%) CMS
13 7 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
15 5 (0.13%) OpenEdge
15 5 (0.13%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.11%) IIS
17 2 (0.054%) IBM Domino
17 2 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.70%) UserZoom
5 20 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.16%) Simulink
8 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.11%) CA PPM
3 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.081%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.054%) SAP MII
5 2 (0.054%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.027%) Maximo
6 1 (0.027%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.027%) Postilion
6 1 (0.027%) Primavera
6 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.027%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.027%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,268 (34.12%) AWS
2 524 (14.10%) Azure
3 132 (3.55%) Amazon S3
4 127 (3.42%) GCP
5 119 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (2.96%) SaaS
7 106 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
8 91 (2.45%) Datadog
9 88 (2.37%) GitHub
10 86 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
11 71 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
12 70 (1.88%) Serverless
13 64 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
14 60 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
15 56 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 53 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 50 (1.35%) Power Platform
18 47 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
19 45 (1.21%) IBM Cloud
20 36 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.21%) Kerberos
2 49 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 40 (1.08%) BGP
3 40 (1.08%) DNS
3 40 (1.08%) SSL
4 19 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (0.43%) Wireless
6 14 (0.38%) Bluetooth
7 13 (0.35%) DSL
7 13 (0.35%) Firewall
7 13 (0.35%) Network Security
8 8 (0.22%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.22%) HTTP
8 8 (0.22%) MQTT
8 8 (0.22%) Profibus
9 7 (0.19%) Broadband
9 7 (0.19%) Internet
9 7 (0.19%) NGFW
9 7 (0.19%) RS-485
9 7 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 622 (16.74%) NoSQL
2 393 (10.58%) Big Data
3 198 (5.33%) Relational Database
4 175 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 166 (4.47%) Hadoop
6 130 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
7 120 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 115 (3.09%) Apache Hive
9 108 (2.91%) MongoDB
10 98 (2.64%) MySQL
11 91 (2.45%) HBase
12 86 (2.31%) RDBMS
13 85 (2.29%) Oracle Database
14 82 (2.21%) Metadata
15 69 (1.86%) Data Lake
16 65 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
17 53 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
18 50 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
19 45 (1.21%) Electronic Patient Records
20 39 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 329 (8.85%) Git
2 314 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 213 (5.73%) JUnit
4 174 (4.68%) JIRA
5 105 (2.83%) Jasmine
6 81 (2.18%) Bitbucket Server
7 80 (2.15%) Bitbucket
8 77 (2.07%) Cypress.io
9 75 (2.02%) Selenium
10 70 (1.88%) Maven
11 67 (1.80%) Artifactory
12 60 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (1.61%) Protractor
12 60 (1.61%) WebDriver
13 50 (1.35%) Mockito
14 46 (1.24%) Visual Studio
15 38 (1.02%) Postman
16 36 (0.97%) JMeter
17 27 (0.73%) GitLab
17 27 (0.73%) Gradle
General
1 2,154 (57.97%) Finance
2 2,018 (54.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,930 (51.94%) Law
4 1,033 (27.80%) Marketing
5 656 (17.65%) Legal
6 632 (17.01%) Social Skills
7 375 (10.09%) Banking
8 297 (7.99%) Investment Banking
9 254 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
10 214 (5.76%) Financial Institution
11 166 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
12 122 (3.28%) Retail
13 85 (2.29%) Aerospace
14 83 (2.23%) Public Sector
15 62 (1.67%) Electronics
16 53 (1.43%) Manufacturing
16 53 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
17 40 (1.08%) Private Banking
18 37 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 35 (0.94%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,956 (52.64%) Software Engineer
2 785 (21.12%) Lead
3 653 (17.57%) Java Engineer
4 642 (17.28%) Java Software Engineer
5 570 (15.34%) Lead Software Engineer
6 526 (14.16%) Developer
7 484 (13.02%) Senior
8 325 (8.75%) Full Stack Engineer
9 314 (8.45%) Python Engineer
10 312 (8.40%) Big Data Engineer
10 312 (8.40%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 309 (8.32%) Python Software Engineer
12 277 (7.45%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 270 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
14 267 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
15 264 (7.10%) AWS Software Engineer
16 229 (6.16%) Lead Java Engineer
17 220 (5.92%) Project Manager
18 204 (5.49%) Scala Engineer
18 204 (5.49%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 593 (15.96%) React
2 587 (15.80%) Spring
3 494 (13.29%) AngularJS
4 393 (10.58%) .NET
5 324 (8.72%) Spring Boot
6 315 (8.48%) HTML
7 307 (8.26%) Kafka
8 279 (7.51%) JSON
9 277 (7.45%) CSS
10 266 (7.16%) Node.js
11 241 (6.49%) J2EE
11 241 (6.49%) RESTful
12 215 (5.79%) Hibernate
13 198 (5.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 187 (5.03%) Web Services
15 166 (4.47%) JMS
15 166 (4.47%) PySpark
16 164 (4.41%) jQuery
17 163 (4.39%) REST
18 144 (3.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 748 (20.13%) Algorithms
2 668 (17.98%) Cloud Native
3 240 (6.46%) Public Cloud
4 186 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 169 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 145 (3.90%) Onboarding
7 115 (3.09%) Reference Data
8 97 (2.61%) Data Structures
9 92 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 91 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
11 80 (2.15%) Market Risk
12 69 (1.86%) Distributed Applications
13 65 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
14 64 (1.72%) Mobile App
15 46 (1.24%) Blockchain
16 44 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
17 43 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
18 42 (1.13%) e-Learning
19 32 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
19 32 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 294 (7.91%) Linux
2 145 (3.90%) Unix
3 60 (1.61%) Windows
4 48 (1.29%) Android
5 43 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
7 9 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.13%) ThreadX
10 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.11%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.081%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 2 (0.054%) Solaris
13 1 (0.027%) Debian
13 1 (0.027%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,871 (77.26%) Agile
2 2,357 (63.43%) Software Engineering
3 1,930 (51.94%) CI/CD
4 1,595 (42.92%) Operational Stability
5 1,233 (33.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,174 (31.59%) Machine Learning
7 1,141 (30.71%) Community of Practice
8 862 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 738 (19.86%) Visualisation
10 658 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
11 624 (16.79%) Risk Management
12 534 (14.37%) Full Stack Development
13 530 (14.26%) Microservices
14 468 (12.59%) DevOps
15 465 (12.51%) Computer Science
15 465 (12.51%) Decision-Making
16 440 (11.84%) Continuous Delivery
17 393 (10.58%) Project Management
18 378 (10.17%) Test Automation
19 364 (9.80%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,568 (42.20%) Java
2 1,181 (31.78%) SQL
3 930 (25.03%) Python
4 586 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 411 (11.06%) C#
6 298 (8.02%) Scala
7 249 (6.70%) TypeScript
8 150 (4.04%) C
9 148 (3.98%) PL/SQL
10 134 (3.61%) C++
11 94 (2.53%) Go
12 66 (1.78%) Bash
13 65 (1.75%) Prolog
13 65 (1.75%) SPARQL
14 57 (1.53%) PHP
15 55 (1.48%) Kotlin
16 40 (1.08%) T-SQL
17 37 (1.00%) Groovy
18 34 (0.91%) Lua
19 30 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 428 (11.52%) Degree
2 233 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 159 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 102 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 70 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 58 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.35%) AWS Certification
9 40 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 37 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.65%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.54%) PMP
13 19 (0.51%) PhD
14 18 (0.48%) CISSP
14 18 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 18 (0.48%) ISEB
15 13 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.32%) CISM
16 12 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (5.68%) QA
2 59 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 58 (1.56%) SLA
4 44 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.13%) PMO
6 26 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 21 (0.57%) NIST
8 18 (0.48%) ISO 13485
9 14 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.27%) ISO 9000
11 9 (0.24%) IEC 62304
12 8 (0.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 8 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 7 (0.19%) TickIT
14 5 (0.13%) GDPR
14 5 (0.13%) MISRA
15 4 (0.11%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.081%) IEC 61508
16 3 (0.081%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 233 (6.27%) Docker
2 93 (2.50%) HDFS
3 76 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 58 (1.56%) Firmware
5 22 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
7 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.19%) vSphere
8 5 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 437 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 288 (7.75%) Terraform
3 134 (3.61%) Grafana
4 73 (1.96%) Ansible
5 65 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 29 (0.78%) Kibana
7 21 (0.57%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
8 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.19%) Graphite
10 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.081%) Argo
11 3 (0.081%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.081%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.081%) Puppet
12 2 (0.054%) Istio
Vendors
1 426 (11.46%) Oracle
2 228 (6.14%) Microsoft
3 216 (5.81%) Databricks
4 137 (3.69%) Splunk
5 125 (3.36%) Dynatrace
6 105 (2.83%) Google
7 86 (2.31%) Informatica
8 65 (1.75%) IBM
9 63 (1.70%) Cloudera
10 52 (1.40%) Alteryx
11 44 (1.18%) Red Hat
12 40 (1.08%) Sparx
13 38 (1.02%) SAP
14 29 (0.78%) Atlassian
15 26 (0.70%) Qualtrics
16 24 (0.65%) Salesforce
17 16 (0.43%) BT
18 15 (0.40%) Sybase
19 14 (0.38%) Pega
20 13 (0.35%) Cognos