SDLC Contracts in Buckinghamshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 36 46 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing SDLC 2 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.85% 1.68% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 2.04% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 10
10th Percentile - £496 -
25th Percentile - £550 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £570 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.98% +26.67% -21.74%
75th Percentile - £617 £475
90th Percentile - £647 £485
South East median daily rate £538 £595 £514
% change year-on-year -9.66% +15.82% -6.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
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 Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +10 2 £325 -44.92% 19
SDLC
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) QARun
1 2 (100.00%) WinRunner
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Case Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Logistics
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft