SDLC Jobs in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 100 30
Rank change year-on-year +49 -70 +47
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 325 318 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.87% 2.24% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 2.83% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 102 173 260
10th Percentile £38,300 £38,817 £37,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £61,313
90th Percentile £78,625 £82,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.32% -6.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

SDLC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,033 11,225 8,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 90.34% 78.89% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,640 7,641 4,363
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SDLC in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. 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
West Midlands +80 194 £57,875 +5.23% 63
East Midlands +18 131 £60,000 +20.00% 39
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 50 (15.38%) Confluence
2 4 (1.23%) Appian
3 3 (0.92%) Apache
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) EngageOne
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.62%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.46%) Magento
1 8 (2.46%) Shopify
2 5 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (26.77%) Azure
2 74 (22.77%) AWS
3 49 (15.08%) GCP
4 19 (5.85%) SaaS
5 8 (2.46%) BigCommerce
6 6 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.92%) Figma
9 2 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.62%) IaaS
9 2 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.31%) PaaS
10 1 (0.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) 3GPP
1 2 (0.62%) 5G
2 1 (0.31%) Modbus
2 1 (0.31%) Wireless
2 1 (0.31%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (22.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.23%) Power BI
3 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.62%) MySQL
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.62%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.31%) Big Data
5 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.31%) DB2
5 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.31%) PowerCenter
5 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 75 (23.08%) JIRA
2 67 (20.62%) GitLab
2 67 (20.62%) Selenium
3 63 (19.38%) Bitbucket
3 63 (19.38%) Cucumber
3 63 (19.38%) Maven
3 63 (19.38%) SonarQube
3 63 (19.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.92%) Postman
6 2 (0.62%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.62%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (0.62%) Git
6 2 (0.62%) JMeter
6 2 (0.62%) JUnit
6 2 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (0.62%) Mockito
7 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.31%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 92 (28.31%) Finance
2 76 (23.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (19.38%) Banking
4 38 (11.69%) Social Skills
5 25 (7.69%) Retail
6 20 (6.15%) Law
7 16 (4.92%) Corporate Banking
7 16 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.54%) Police
10 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.92%) Automotive
11 3 (0.92%) Marketing
12 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.62%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.62%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (21.23%) Instrumentation Engineer
2 68 (20.92%) Software Engineer
3 64 (19.69%) Principal Engineer
4 42 (12.92%) Developer
5 26 (8.00%) Senior
6 19 (5.85%) Lead
7 16 (4.92%) Software Developer
8 14 (4.31%) Analyst
9 12 (3.69%) C# Developer
10 11 (3.38%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.08%) Architect
12 9 (2.77%) IT Manager
12 9 (2.77%) Lead Developer
12 9 (2.77%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.46%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.46%) Lead Software Developer
13 8 (2.46%) SaaS Developer
14 7 (2.15%) C# Software Developer
15 6 (1.85%) Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (23.38%) HTML
2 68 (20.92%) CSS
2 68 (20.92%) JPA
3 65 (20.00%) React
3 65 (20.00%) Spring
4 63 (19.38%) Kafka
4 63 (19.38%) Redux
4 63 (19.38%) Spring Boot
5 47 (14.46%) Hibernate
6 24 (7.38%) REST
7 17 (5.23%) Jest
7 17 (5.23%) RESTful
8 16 (4.92%) .NET
8 16 (4.92%) CSS3
8 16 (4.92%) HTML5
8 16 (4.92%) Sass
9 7 (2.15%) ASP.NET
9 7 (2.15%) Middleware
10 6 (1.85%) Laravel
11 5 (1.54%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 71 (21.85%) Product Ownership
2 66 (20.31%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.77%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.46%) EPoS
5 5 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.62%) NHS
9 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.31%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.31%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.31%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.31%) SCADA
9 1 (0.31%) Smart Energy
9 1 (0.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.69%) Linux
2 5 (1.54%) Android
2 5 (1.54%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.54%) Rocky
3 2 (0.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (78.77%) Agile
2 216 (66.46%) Software Engineering
3 148 (45.54%) Software Testing
3 148 (45.54%) Waterfall
4 84 (25.85%) CI/CD
5 83 (25.54%) DevOps
6 78 (24.00%) Front End Development
7 74 (22.77%) Test Automation
8 70 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 70 (21.54%) Microservices
9 68 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 63 (19.38%) Performance Optimisation
12 52 (16.00%) Clean Code
12 52 (16.00%) TDD
13 34 (10.46%) Mentoring
14 29 (8.92%) Strategic Thinking
15 25 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (7.38%) User Experience
17 22 (6.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 92 (28.31%) SQL
2 90 (27.69%) JavaScript
3 79 (24.31%) Java
4 30 (9.23%) C#
5 17 (5.23%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.08%) Python
7 8 (2.46%) Delphi
8 7 (2.15%) PHP
9 4 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.62%) Ada
10 2 (0.62%) Bash
10 2 (0.62%) Groovy
10 2 (0.62%) Rust
10 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.31%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.31%) C
11 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 158 (48.62%) Degree
2 135 (41.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.62%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) CBAP
7 1 (0.31%) ISEB
7 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.31%) PMP
7 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (24.31%) QA
2 16 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.85%) GDPR
3 6 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.23%) COBIT
5 3 (0.92%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.62%) NCSC
6 2 (0.62%) PMO
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 64 (19.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (19.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 132 (40.62%) Siemens
2 63 (19.38%) Solace
3 24 (7.38%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.46%) Oracle
5 6 (1.85%) SAP
6 5 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.54%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.92%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.62%) Databricks
9 1 (0.31%) Informatica
9 1 (0.31%) Pega
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) Snow
9 1 (0.31%) Splunk
9 1 (0.31%) Sybase
9 1 (0.31%) VMware
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