SDLC Contracts in Berkshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 85 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -18
Contract jobs citing SDLC 33 27 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.67% 1.49% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.63% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 42
10th Percentile £445 £473 £394
25th Percentile £563 £509 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% +7.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £588
90th Percentile £688 £676 £611
South East median daily rate £590 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +18.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £67.02 £52.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.05% +5.50% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,756 1,652 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.91% 91.07% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,062 1,384
10th Percentile £213 £350 £268
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +10 29 £650 +17.38% 8
Wokingham -2 2 £575 -11.54%
SDLC
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.03%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) Azure
2 14 (42.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 14 (42.42%) Azure Data Factory
2 14 (42.42%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (39.39%) Entra ID
4 10 (30.30%) Serverless
5 9 (27.27%) Azure Functions
6 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS
7 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.03%) JMeter
3 1 (3.03%) JUnit
3 1 (3.03%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) Mockito
3 1 (3.03%) Selenium
3 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Developer
1 15 (45.45%) Full Stack Developer
2 14 (42.42%) Azure Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Product Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) Python Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Defect Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Incident Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.03%) Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Network Security Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) React
2 2 (6.06%) HTML
2 2 (6.06%) Web Services
3 1 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.03%) jQuery
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.15%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Life Science
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
1 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
1 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) DevOps
1 19 (57.58%) Product Backlog
2 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 15 (45.45%) Agile
3 15 (45.45%) Full Stack Development
3 15 (45.45%) Microservices
4 12 (36.36%) Change Management
5 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (27.27%) Unit Testing
6 6 (18.18%) Backlog Refinement
6 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 5 (15.15%) CRM
7 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
7 5 (15.15%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (12.12%) Release Management
8 4 (12.12%) Scrum
9 3 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) C
3 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) HL7
1 1 (3.03%) QA
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.06%) SCOM
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Adobe
2 1 (3.03%) Checkmarx
2 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.03%) Ericsson
2 1 (3.03%) Mavenir
2 1 (3.03%) Nokia
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.03%) Sparx
2 1 (3.03%) Splunk