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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 61 101
Rank change year-on-year -38 +40 -17
Contract jobs citing SDLC 22 29 30
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.19% 2.51% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 2.68% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 22
10th Percentile £409 £450 £445
25th Percentile £419 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -4.62% +10.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £628 £653 £688
South East median daily rate £563 £558 £575
% change year-on-year +0.90% -3.04% +11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £63.73 - £67.02
% change year-on-year - - +7.23%

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 1,594 1,081 1,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.49% 93.67% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 632 989
10th Percentile £300 £307 £213
25th Percentile £402 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £596 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 30 97
10th Percentile £19.55 £26.09 £18.95
25th Percentile £55.81 £42.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +4.23% -4.40%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.81
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.17 £86.19
South East median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% -16.67%

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 19 March 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
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 19 March 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 -27 11 £425 -31.45% 5
Bracknell 0 5 £600 -
Wokingham -30 5 £500 +11.11% 2
Slough - 1 £650 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Appian
1 1 (4.55%) IIS
1 1 (4.55%) JBoss
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.55%) Smallworld
1 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) OCI
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
1 3 (13.64%) Wireless
2 2 (9.09%) Internet
2 2 (9.09%) Intranet
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) LAN
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VLAN
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
3 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.55%) GIS
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Burp Suite
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Appium
3 1 (4.55%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Test Manager
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Penetration Tester
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Strategy Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) JWT
1 5 (22.73%) OAuth
1 5 (22.73%) REST
2 4 (18.18%) SAML
3 3 (13.64%) SOAP
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.55%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.55%) Pandas
5 1 (4.55%) pytest
5 1 (4.55%) Web Services
5 1 (4.55%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (4.55%) WSDL
5 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Kali Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
3 7 (31.82%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (31.82%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 6 (27.27%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) OWASP
5 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
5 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
5 5 (22.73%) Conflict Management
5 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
5 5 (22.73%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Security Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Test Management
5 5 (22.73%) Test Strategy
5 5 (22.73%) Waterfall
6 4 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Bash
1 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) PHP
6 1 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (4.55%) Magik
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.09%) SANS
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CCSP
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Nessus
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle