SDLC Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 60 73
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 540 1,114 1,381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.05% 4.12% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 4.52% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 774 972
10th Percentile £407 £425 £438
25th Percentile £500 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £650 £611
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +6.34% +11.14%
75th Percentile £775 £765 £732
90th Percentile £875 £862 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 9
10th Percentile - £45.00 £33.87
25th Percentile £46.25 £47.50 £41.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.97 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +26.12% -12.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £74.38 £57.00
90th Percentile - £78.75 £68.95
England median hourly rate £48.00 £58.50 £54.89
% change year-on-year -17.95% +6.58% -0.20%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in London

SDLC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in London

SDLC
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in London

SDLC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in London

SDLC
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London -16 87 £625 -3.85% 18
South London +21 19 £620 +18.10%
East London +2 16 £585 +9.55% 12
West London +18 8 £506 -19.00% 3
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 23 (4.26%) Confluence
2 14 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.22%) IIS
4 10 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.67%) Apache
5 9 (1.67%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.56%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.56%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.37%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.19%) GemFire
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.41%) Endur
2 6 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.93%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.37%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.37%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.37%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.37%) SAP R/3
4 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Actimize
5 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 119 (22.04%) Azure
2 95 (17.59%) AWS
3 38 (7.04%) Serverless
4 30 (5.56%) GCP
5 28 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (4.81%) SaaS
7 24 (4.44%) PaaS
8 22 (4.07%) GitHub
9 18 (3.33%) Power Platform
10 15 (2.78%) Azure Functions
11 14 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (2.59%) IaaS
12 13 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.41%) Slack
13 12 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.22%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.48%) Firewall
1 8 (1.48%) Internet
2 5 (0.93%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.93%) SNA
2 5 (0.93%) SSH
2 5 (0.93%) VSAN
2 5 (0.93%) WAN
3 3 (0.56%) ATM
4 2 (0.37%) DNS
4 2 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) HTTP
5 1 (0.19%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.22%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.30%) Relational Database
3 27 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 21 (3.89%) Big Data
4 21 (3.89%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.33%) Oracle Database
6 17 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (2.96%) Power BI
8 15 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (2.41%) KDB
10 10 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.67%) MySQL
12 7 (1.30%) Sybase ASE
13 6 (1.11%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.11%) Tableau
14 5 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
15 4 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.74%) Looker
15 4 (0.74%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 63 (11.67%) JIRA
2 61 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 49 (9.07%) Git
4 29 (5.37%) GitLab
5 23 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 22 (4.07%) JUnit
7 19 (3.52%) Selenium
8 16 (2.96%) Mockito
9 14 (2.59%) TeamCity
10 12 (2.22%) git-flow
10 12 (2.22%) Maven
11 11 (2.04%) JMeter
12 10 (1.85%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (1.11%) TestRail
14 5 (0.93%) MLflow
14 5 (0.93%) Pylint
15 4 (0.74%) Appium
15 4 (0.74%) Gradle
15 4 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 185 (34.26%) Finance
2 151 (27.96%) Social Skills
3 101 (18.70%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (16.30%) Banking
5 34 (6.30%) Marketing
6 33 (6.11%) Front Office
6 33 (6.11%) Investment Banking
7 28 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.22%) Retail
11 11 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.48%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.11%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.74%) Electronics
16 3 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 182 (33.70%) Developer
2 110 (20.37%) Senior
3 58 (10.74%) Analyst
4 52 (9.63%) Java Developer
5 49 (9.07%) Senior Developer
6 44 (8.15%) Architect
7 39 (7.22%) Lead
8 34 (6.30%) Business Analyst
9 32 (5.93%) Project Manager
10 28 (5.19%) Software Engineer
11 23 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
12 22 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (3.89%) Senior Java Developer
14 20 (3.70%) Consultant
15 19 (3.52%) Data Engineer
16 18 (3.33%) SQL Developer
17 17 (3.15%) Security Architect
18 15 (2.78%) Python Developer
18 15 (2.78%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (12.04%) .NET
2 52 (9.63%) React
3 36 (6.67%) HTML
4 35 (6.48%) CSS
5 29 (5.37%) REST
5 29 (5.37%) Spring Boot
6 28 (5.19%) Web Services
7 27 (5.00%) .NET Framework
8 25 (4.63%) Kafka
8 25 (4.63%) XML
9 23 (4.26%) JSON
9 23 (4.26%) Spring
10 20 (3.70%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.15%) Hibernate
11 17 (3.15%) JPA
11 17 (3.15%) WebSockets
12 16 (2.96%) .NET Core
13 15 (2.78%) ASP.NET
14 14 (2.59%) Blazor
14 14 (2.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (4.81%) Mobile App
3 23 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (3.89%) Algorithms
4 21 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (2.96%) Derivative
6 16 (2.96%) Fixed Income
6 16 (2.96%) IoT
6 16 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.22%) Credit Derivative
8 12 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
10 9 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
10 9 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (1.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.52%) Linux
2 37 (6.85%) Windows
3 21 (3.89%) Unix
4 10 (1.85%) Android
5 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (46.85%) Agile
2 140 (25.93%) DevOps
3 129 (23.89%) CI/CD
4 106 (19.63%) Software Engineering
5 99 (18.33%) Scrum
6 94 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (10.19%) Analytics
8 52 (9.63%) Microservices
9 51 (9.44%) Project Management
9 51 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 50 (9.26%) Test Automation
10 50 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
11 49 (9.07%) Design Patterns
12 45 (8.33%) ITIL
13 43 (7.96%) Continuous Integration
14 39 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (7.22%) Migration
15 38 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (6.85%) User Experience
17 36 (6.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 139 (25.74%) SQL
2 136 (25.19%) Java
3 99 (18.33%) Python
4 91 (16.85%) C#
5 79 (14.63%) JavaScript
6 53 (9.81%) PowerShell
7 37 (6.85%) TypeScript
8 21 (3.89%) PL/SQL
9 20 (3.70%) T-SQL
10 19 (3.52%) Go
11 17 (3.15%) C++
12 16 (2.96%) Shell Script
13 13 (2.41%) Perl
13 13 (2.41%) Scala
14 8 (1.48%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.30%) VB.NET
16 6 (1.11%) Bicep
17 5 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.74%) ABAP
19 3 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (13.52%) Degree
2 60 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 54 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.41%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.22%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.22%) PMP
9 7 (1.30%) CISM
9 7 (1.30%) CISSP
10 3 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.37%) IIBA
11 2 (0.37%) ISEB
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.96%) QA
2 18 (3.33%) NIST
3 10 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.85%) PCI DSS
3 10 (1.85%) PMO
4 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.30%) EMIR
6 6 (1.11%) MiFID
7 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (0.93%) SEPA
8 2 (0.37%) COBIT
8 2 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.37%) GAAP
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) Basel III
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (7.04%) Docker
2 15 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) GridGain
7 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 66 (12.22%) Kubernetes
2 51 (9.44%) Terraform
3 33 (6.11%) Ansible
4 24 (4.44%) Puppet
5 6 (1.11%) vRealize
6 5 (0.93%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.74%) Grafana
7 4 (0.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (0.56%) Netcool
8 3 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.37%) Argo
9 2 (0.37%) Kibana
10 1 (0.19%) Control-M
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) logstash
10 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 64 (11.85%) Oracle
3 21 (3.89%) SAP
4 20 (3.70%) Databricks
5 13 (2.41%) MuleSoft
6 12 (2.22%) IBM
6 12 (2.22%) VMware
7 11 (2.04%) Bloomberg
7 11 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.67%) Refinitiv
9 8 (1.48%) OpenLink
9 8 (1.48%) Solace
9 8 (1.48%) Sybase
10 7 (1.30%) Google
10 7 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.93%) Apple
11 5 (0.93%) Citrix
11 5 (0.93%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.74%) Conga