SDLC Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 80 76
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +18
Contract jobs citing SDLC 26 21 33
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.41% 1.75% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.91% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 23
10th Percentile £424 £410 £419
25th Percentile £523 £423 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £773 £651
South East median daily rate £545 £521 £600
% change year-on-year +4.61% -13.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £104.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £63.51
% change year-on-year +40.00% -21.27% +15.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,515 1,099 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 81.98% 91.66% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 674 780
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -6.59% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £675 £698
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 41 74
10th Percentile £21.49 £14.75 £18.92
25th Percentile £57.50 £17.30 £44.13
Median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +158.97% -47.97% +2.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £72.18
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.25 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
% change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Berkshire

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in Berkshire

SDLC
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
Reading -15 18 £563 +8.80% 13
Wokingham -6 6 £560 - 2
SDLC
South East

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) AWS
3 6 (23.08%) GitHub
3 6 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) DHCP
2 2 (7.69%) DNS
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) VLAN
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
2 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) GitLab
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) JMeter
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
2 1 (3.85%) tSQLt
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (50.00%) Aerospace
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Consultant
2 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Security Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.69%) LDAP
3 2 (7.69%) OAuth
3 2 (7.69%) OpenID
3 2 (7.69%) SAML
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) PKI
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) IoT
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (42.31%) Vulnerability Management
3 10 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 10 (38.46%) Security Architecture
3 10 (38.46%) Threat Modelling
4 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 8 (30.77%) SIEM
4 8 (30.77%) Zero Trust
5 7 (26.92%) DevSecOps
5 7 (26.92%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (26.92%) SABSA
6 6 (23.08%) Agile
6 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
7 5 (19.23%) Cloud Security
7 5 (19.23%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Bash
2 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) Bicep
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 18 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 12 (46.15%) CISSP
4 8 (30.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (26.92%) CISM
6 4 (15.38%) CEH
6 4 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (15.38%) Degree
6 4 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 4 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 3 (11.54%) GIAC
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
8 1 (3.85%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (53.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (53.85%) NIST
2 6 (23.08%) NIST 800
3 5 (19.23%) NCSC
4 4 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (15.38%) Def Stans
5 1 (3.85%) GDPR
5 1 (3.85%) GRC
5 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.85%) QA
5 1 (3.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) ForgeRock
2 1 (3.85%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Okta
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Ping Identity
2 1 (3.85%) Sparx
2 1 (3.85%) Splunk