SDLC Contracts in Bristol

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 65 74
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -19
Contract jobs citing SDLC 6 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.04% 0.85% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.03% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £523 £282 £463
25th Percentile £566 £367 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £509 £613
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% -16.98% +20.10%
75th Percentile £639 £651 £713
90th Percentile £644 £736 £764
South West median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £48.00 £51.22
25th Percentile - £49.13 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -21.67%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - £51.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year - -7.42% -25.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 535 876 1,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.56% 82.72% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 487 711
10th Percentile £232 £254 £300
25th Percentile £363 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £564 £599 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £720
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 195 205
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £29.69 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £63.50 £67.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +9.35% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £80.15
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +23.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Bristol over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (16.67%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Appian Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Angular 2
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Go
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google