SDLC Contracts in Berkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 84 90
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing SDLC 16 33 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.34% 1.67% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.93% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 19
10th Percentile £450 £445 £449
25th Percentile £466 £563 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -16.64% +6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £538 £651 £644
90th Percentile £569 £686 £675
South East median daily rate £496 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.74% +6.48% -1.82%

All Process and 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 1,116 1,713 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.16% 86.78% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 852 1,049
10th Percentile £325 £270 £336
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £716
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 112 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £51.00 £60.53 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +1.94% +182.74%
75th Percentile £76.35 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.60 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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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 6 July 2025. 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 +6 7 £521 -16.64% 34
Wokingham -7 4 £450 -21.74% 1
Bracknell - 3 £600 - 2
Maidenhead - 1 - - 10
Windsor - 1 £525 - 1
SDLC
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) JMeter
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) Mockito
4 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Release Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (6.25%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Release Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Web Services
2 3 (18.75%) Google JAX
2 3 (18.75%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) JAX
2 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
2 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
2 3 (18.75%) TensorFlow
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (12.50%) ADO
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Camel
3 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 2 (12.50%) jQuery
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) WireMock
3 2 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
1 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
4 5 (31.25%) Workflow
5 4 (25.00%) ITIL
5 4 (25.00%) Process Management
5 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Data Science
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
6 3 (18.75%) LLM
6 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
6 3 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
6 3 (18.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C
2 3 (18.75%) C++
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) R
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) PMP
3 1 (6.25%) CCSK
3 1 (6.25%) CEH
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) GIAC
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SANS
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (18.75%) EU AI Act
2 3 (18.75%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) CASB
3 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
3 1 (6.25%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) Forcepoint
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) SAP