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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 71 84
Rank change year-on-year -34 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing SDLC 19 20 34
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.03% 1.71% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.82% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 25
10th Percentile £413 £450 £445
25th Percentile £425 £559 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £610 - £688
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £595
% change year-on-year +2.33% -9.66% +15.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £63.73 £52.50 £67.02
% change year-on-year +21.39% -21.67% +25.27%

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 1,572 1,096 1,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 85.30% 93.44% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,038 639 912
10th Percentile £303 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -2.71%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.05% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 27 102
10th Percentile £28.45 £22.76 £20.17
25th Percentile £73.40 £32.05 £41.75
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% -0.17% +6.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £76.35 £72.18
90th Percentile £101.50 £88.05 £87.41
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -32 9 £425 -29.17% 2
Wokingham -27 6 £465 +3.33% 2
Bracknell +2 4 £600 -
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 (5.26%) Appian
1 1 (5.26%) IIS
1 1 (5.26%) JBoss
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.26%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.53%) AWS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.26%) PaaS
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) DHCP
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) LAN
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) VLAN
2 2 (10.53%) WAN
2 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.26%) Automotive
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Architect
1 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (21.05%) Test Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Strategy Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Appian Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) JWT
1 4 (21.05%) OAuth
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) SAML
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
3 2 (10.53%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.26%) Pandas
4 1 (5.26%) pytest
4 1 (5.26%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) WSDL
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Kali Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
3 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Code Quality
4 4 (21.05%) Conflict Management
4 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
4 4 (21.05%) Matrix Organization
4 4 (21.05%) OWASP
4 4 (21.05%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Security Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Test Management
4 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
5 3 (15.79%) AI
5 3 (15.79%) Secure Coding
5 3 (15.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Bash
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
1 2 (10.53%) NIST 800
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Nessus
3 1 (5.26%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Checkmarx