SDLC Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 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 47 39 69
Rank change year-on-year -8 +30 -8
Contract jobs citing SDLC 84 189 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.81% 5.20% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 5.66% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 101 107
10th Percentile £433 £423 £466
25th Percentile £503 £505 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £755 £763 £725
90th Percentile £864 £825 £757
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.25
Median hourly rate - - £51.50
75th Percentile - - £52.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £51.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.14%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (7.14%) IIS
2 4 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.57%) Apache
4 2 (2.38%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.38%) Azure
2 18 (21.43%) AWS
3 11 (13.10%) Serverless
4 9 (10.71%) Azure Functions
5 8 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (7.14%) Azure Storage
7 5 (5.95%) GitHub
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.57%) GCP
10 2 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.38%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) Internet
2 1 (1.19%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.57%) Metadata
6 3 (3.57%) MySQL
6 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.38%) KDB
7 2 (2.38%) Looker
7 2 (2.38%) Power BI
7 2 (2.38%) Tableau
8 1 (1.19%) Big Data
8 1 (1.19%) DB2
8 1 (1.19%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (1.19%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Git
1 12 (14.29%) JIRA
2 5 (5.95%) GitLab
2 5 (5.95%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.57%) JUnit
4 2 (2.38%) Android Studio
4 2 (2.38%) HP UFT
4 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.38%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (2.38%) Mockito
4 2 (2.38%) ScalaTest
4 2 (2.38%) Selenium
4 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.38%) Subversion
4 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.19%) Gradle
5 1 (1.19%) Maven
5 1 (1.19%) Pylint
5 1 (1.19%) Spinnaker
General
1 25 (29.76%) Finance
2 20 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Banking
4 11 (13.10%) Social Skills
5 10 (11.90%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.76%) Retail Banking
8 3 (3.57%) Marketing
9 2 (2.38%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.19%) Back Office
10 1 (1.19%) Front Office
10 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Law
10 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) Developer
2 14 (16.67%) Senior
3 11 (13.10%) Analyst
4 10 (11.90%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Quantitative Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Architect
9 4 (4.76%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.76%) SQL Developer
10 3 (3.57%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.38%) .NET
2 11 (13.10%) ASP.NET
3 10 (11.90%) .NET Framework
3 10 (11.90%) Kafka
4 9 (10.71%) Web Services
5 7 (8.33%) .NET Core
6 6 (7.14%) Blazor
6 6 (7.14%) React
7 5 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.95%) WCF
7 5 (5.95%) WinForms
8 4 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.76%) JSON
9 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.57%) HTML
9 3 (3.57%) Middleware
9 3 (3.57%) RESTful
9 3 (3.57%) Spring
9 3 (3.57%) XML
10 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.38%) BYOD
4 2 (2.38%) CMDB
4 2 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.38%) Derivative
4 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Equities
4 2 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.86%) Windows
2 6 (7.14%) Linux
3 5 (5.95%) Unix
4 2 (2.38%) Android
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.86%) Agile
2 33 (39.29%) DevOps
3 28 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 21 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 18 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (16.67%) Microservices
7 10 (11.90%) Full Stack Development
8 9 (10.71%) Project Management
8 9 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (9.52%) Front End Development
9 8 (9.52%) ITIL
9 8 (9.52%) Migration
10 7 (8.33%) Analytics
10 7 (8.33%) Configuration Management
10 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.33%) Mathematics
10 7 (8.33%) Software Deployment
10 7 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 6 (7.14%) Data Modelling
11 6 (7.14%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.86%) SQL
2 28 (33.33%) C#
3 22 (26.19%) Python
4 12 (14.29%) Java
5 10 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.33%) C++
7 7 (8.33%) T-SQL
8 6 (7.14%) Go
8 6 (7.14%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.95%) Scala
10 2 (2.38%) MATLAB
10 2 (2.38%) R
11 1 (1.19%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.19%) Perl
11 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) Degree
2 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.38%) ISEB
4 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) EMIR
3 2 (2.38%) MiFID
3 2 (2.38%) PMO
4 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.76%) Docker
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) Puppet
3 1 (1.19%) vRealize
3 1 (1.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (25.00%) Oracle
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.57%) OpenLink
5 2 (2.38%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) Google
5 2 (2.38%) IBM
5 2 (2.38%) Micro Focus
5 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) Solace
5 2 (2.38%) Sybase
5 2 (2.38%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.38%) VMware
6 1 (1.19%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.19%) Citrix
6 1 (1.19%) New Relic
6 1 (1.19%) Progress
6 1 (1.19%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow