SDLC Contracts in Central London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 44 78
Rank change year-on-year -8 +34 -18
Contract jobs citing SDLC 88 188 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.62% 4.99% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 5.46% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 106 110
10th Percentile £418 £424 £463
25th Percentile £481 £495 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £766 £763 £708
90th Percentile £860 £825 £750
London median daily rate £600 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,202 3,443 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.62% 91.33% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 2,335 3,145
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £823 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -10 85 £650 - 14
West End of London +2 2 - -
SDLC
London

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (6.82%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (6.82%) IIS
2 5 (5.68%) Apache
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.27%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.27%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Endur
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.27%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) AWS
3 10 (11.36%) Serverless
4 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (6.82%) Azure Storage
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.55%) GitHub
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.41%) GCP
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.14%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.41%) Metadata
7 3 (3.41%) MySQL
7 3 (3.41%) Parquet
7 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.27%) KDB
9 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.14%) OLAP
9 1 (1.14%) OLTP
9 1 (1.14%) Power BI
9 1 (1.14%) Power Query
9 1 (1.14%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (13.64%) JIRA
2 11 (12.50%) Git
3 5 (5.68%) GitLab
3 5 (5.68%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.41%) JUnit
5 2 (2.27%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.27%) Deequ
5 2 (2.27%) HP UFT
5 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.27%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (2.27%) Mockito
5 2 (2.27%) ScalaTest
5 2 (2.27%) Selenium
5 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.27%) Subversion
5 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.14%) Gradle
6 1 (1.14%) Maven
6 1 (1.14%) Pylint
6 1 (1.14%) Spinnaker
General
1 27 (30.68%) Finance
2 20 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Banking
4 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Retail Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 2 (2.27%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.14%) Back Office
10 1 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Front Office
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Law
10 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (32.95%) Developer
2 14 (15.91%) Senior
3 11 (12.50%) Analyst
4 10 (11.36%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Quantitative Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead
9 4 (4.55%) SQL Developer
10 3 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Endur Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.27%) .NET
2 11 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 11 (12.50%) Kafka
3 10 (11.36%) .NET Framework
4 9 (10.23%) Web Services
5 7 (7.95%) .NET Core
6 6 (6.82%) Blazor
6 6 (6.82%) React
7 5 (5.68%) JSON
7 5 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.68%) WCF
7 5 (5.68%) WinForms
8 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.55%) HTML
8 4 (4.55%) Middleware
9 3 (3.41%) Apache Avro
9 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.41%) JSON Schema
9 3 (3.41%) PySpark
9 3 (3.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.41%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.27%) CMDB
4 2 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.27%) Derivative
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Equities
4 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.27%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.14%) BYOD
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.14%) IoT
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.18%) Windows
2 7 (7.95%) Linux
3 5 (5.68%) Unix
4 3 (3.41%) Android
5 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.59%) Agile
2 35 (39.77%) DevOps
3 29 (32.95%) Software Engineering
4 24 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 20 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.77%) Microservices
7 11 (12.50%) Project Management
8 10 (11.36%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (11.36%) Migration
9 8 (9.09%) Analytics
9 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (9.09%) Front End Development
9 8 (9.09%) ITIL
9 8 (9.09%) Scrum
9 8 (9.09%) Software Deployment
9 8 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (7.95%) Configuration Management
10 7 (7.95%) Data Engineering
10 7 (7.95%) Data Modelling
11 6 (6.82%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.64%) SQL
2 27 (30.68%) C#
3 23 (26.14%) Python
4 12 (13.64%) Java
5 10 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.23%) T-SQL
7 7 (7.95%) C++
8 6 (6.82%) Go
8 6 (6.82%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.68%) Scala
10 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.14%) Perl
10 1 (1.14%) R
10 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.09%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.27%) ISEB
4 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) EMIR
2 3 (3.41%) PMO
3 2 (2.27%) MiFID
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) Docker
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) Puppet
3 1 (1.14%) vRealize
3 1 (1.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Oracle
2 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.82%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.55%) Databricks
5 3 (3.41%) OpenLink
6 2 (2.27%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.27%) IBM
6 2 (2.27%) Micro Focus
6 2 (2.27%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) Solace
6 2 (2.27%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.27%) VMware
7 1 (1.14%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.14%) Citrix
7 1 (1.14%) Google
7 1 (1.14%) New Relic
7 1 (1.14%) Progress
7 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) Sybase