SDLC Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 11.59% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £524 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £595 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Essex median daily rate £565 £400 £388
% change year-on-year +41.25% +3.23% -26.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

SDLC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 28 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 92.75% 100.00% 83.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 14 4
10th Percentile £350 £366 £219
25th Percentile £380 £401 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £458 £300
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% +52.50% -40.83%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £338
90th Percentile - £511 £405
Essex median daily rate £460 £413 £350
% change year-on-year +11.52% +17.86% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 24
10th Percentile £18.09 £41.90 £29.17
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £54.75
Median hourly rate £73.00 £71.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -8.39% +89.78%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.20 - -
Essex median hourly rate £19.22 £18.87 £75.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -74.84% +30.43%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Basildon

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) IntelliJ
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JMeter
General
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Architect
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Developer
2 2 (25.00%) IAM Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Software Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) OpenID
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Application Security
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) Conflict Management
3 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Checkmarx
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Ingenico
3 1 (12.50%) Fiserv
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) SAP