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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 90 88
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing SDLC 20 34 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.71% 1.71% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.93% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 20
10th Percentile £450 £445 £473
25th Percentile £559 £563 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% +7.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile - £688 £676
South East median daily rate £538 £595 £514
% change year-on-year -9.66% +15.82% -6.59%

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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +16 15 £600 -5.88% 44
Wokingham -8 4 £450 -21.74% 2
Bracknell - 1 - - 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 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Serverless
3 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Functions
5 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.00%) AWS
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (5.00%) dbt
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
8 1 (5.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Selenium
3 2 (10.00%) JMeter
3 2 (10.00%) JUnit
3 2 (10.00%) Mockito
4 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (20.00%) React Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Automation Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) HTML
2 7 (35.00%) .NET
3 6 (30.00%) CSS
3 6 (30.00%) React
4 4 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (10.00%) ADO
5 2 (10.00%) Apache Camel
5 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.00%) jQuery
5 2 (10.00%) JSON
5 2 (10.00%) REST
5 2 (10.00%) Spring
5 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (10.00%) WireMock
5 2 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (5.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Unit Testing
4 8 (40.00%) Microservices
5 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (30.00%) Product Backlog
6 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (25.00%) Integration Testing
6 5 (25.00%) LLM
6 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 5 (25.00%) System Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Channel Management
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (15.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) TDD
9 2 (10.00%) Change Management
9 2 (10.00%) Process Management
9 2 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) CCSK
2 1 (5.00%) CEH
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) GIAC
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kibana
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft