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 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 59 45 79
Rank change year-on-year -14 +34 -24
Contract jobs citing SDLC 83 168 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.45% 4.58% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 5.02% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 101 92
10th Percentile £415 £419 £463
25th Percentile £525 £495 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £750
90th Percentile £875 £813 £825
London median daily rate £600 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -5.96% +6.33% +6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £80.25
Median hourly rate - - £81.50
75th Percentile - - £82.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £61.25 £51.49 £42.00
% change year-on-year +18.97% +22.58% -16.00%

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 2,181 3,349 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.65% 91.28% 92.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 2,253 3,118
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +7.55%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £791 £820 £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 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%

SDLC
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 June 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -5 79 £650 - 15
West End of London 0 3 £425 -14.14%
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 (7.23%) IIS
2 5 (6.02%) Apache
2 5 (6.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.61%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.41%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.20%) Confluence
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.20%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Endur
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.51%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) AWS
3 8 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.43%) Serverless
5 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
5 4 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (4.82%) GitHub
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Storage
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.41%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.41%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Internet
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.20%) SSH
2 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.25%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (8.43%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.61%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.61%) MySQL
5 3 (3.61%) Parquet
5 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.41%) KDB
6 2 (2.41%) Metadata
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.20%) Power Query
7 1 (1.20%) Scylla
7 1 (1.20%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) JIRA
2 10 (12.05%) Git
3 6 (7.23%) TeamCity
4 5 (6.02%) GitLab
5 4 (4.82%) JUnit
6 2 (2.41%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.41%) Deequ
6 2 (2.41%) HP UFT
6 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.41%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (2.41%) Mockito
6 2 (2.41%) ScalaTest
6 2 (2.41%) Selenium
6 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.41%) Subversion
6 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.20%) Postman
7 1 (1.20%) Pylint
7 1 (1.20%) Spinnaker
General
1 28 (33.73%) Finance
2 21 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (18.07%) Banking
4 11 (13.25%) Investment Banking
4 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.82%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.41%) Public Speaking
8 1 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (33.73%) Developer
2 15 (18.07%) Senior
3 10 (12.05%) Analyst
3 10 (12.05%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Quantitative Developer
5 7 (8.43%) Architect
6 6 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (6.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.82%) DevSecOps Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Lead
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Developer
9 3 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.92%) .NET
2 13 (15.66%) Kafka
3 11 (13.25%) ASP.NET
4 10 (12.05%) .NET Framework
4 10 (12.05%) Web Services
5 7 (8.43%) React
6 6 (7.23%) .NET Core
7 5 (6.02%) HTML
7 5 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (6.02%) WCF
7 5 (6.02%) WinForms
8 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.82%) JSON
8 4 (4.82%) Middleware
8 4 (4.82%) Spring
9 3 (3.61%) Apache Avro
9 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.61%) HTML5
9 3 (3.61%) RESTful
9 3 (3.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.61%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.41%) Derivative
4 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.41%) Equities
4 2 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.20%) PKI
5 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Windows
2 7 (8.43%) Linux
3 5 (6.02%) Unix
4 3 (3.61%) Android
5 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (53.01%) Agile
2 36 (43.37%) DevOps
3 24 (28.92%) Software Engineering
4 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
5 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.25%) Migration
6 11 (13.25%) Scrum
7 10 (12.05%) Microservices
8 9 (10.84%) Project Management
9 8 (9.64%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (9.64%) Software Deployment
9 8 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (8.43%) Configuration Management
10 7 (8.43%) ITIL
11 6 (7.23%) Analytics
11 6 (7.23%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (7.23%) Data Analysis
11 6 (7.23%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (7.23%) Software Testing
11 6 (7.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (36.14%) SQL
2 29 (34.94%) C#
3 20 (24.10%) Python
4 13 (15.66%) Java
5 11 (13.25%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.43%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.23%) T-SQL
8 5 (6.02%) Scala
9 4 (4.82%) C++
10 3 (3.61%) Go
10 3 (3.61%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.20%) Perl
12 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) Degree
2 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.20%) ISEB
4 1 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) PMO
4 2 (2.41%) EMIR
5 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
1 6 (7.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.02%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Puppet
4 1 (1.20%) Podman
4 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.20%) Rancher
4 1 (1.20%) vRealize
4 1 (1.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Oracle
2 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.82%) Databricks
4 3 (3.61%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.61%) OpenLink
5 2 (2.41%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.41%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) Micro Focus
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.41%) Solace
5 2 (2.41%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.41%) VMware
6 1 (1.20%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.20%) Citrix
6 1 (1.20%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.20%) New Relic
6 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.20%) Sybase