SDLC Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing SDLC 4 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.55% - 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% - 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile £508 - £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £553 - £610
90th Percentile £557 - £641
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%

All Process & 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 571 259 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.54% 93.50% 84.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 191 312
10th Percentile £305 £210 £228
25th Percentile £406 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +2.02% +4.21%
75th Percentile £595 £590 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £686
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 37
10th Percentile £15.21 - £15.94
25th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £19.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -31.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £19.34 £46.44 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £60.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% -5.56%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SDLC

SDLC
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 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
Milton Keynes - 4 £533 - 3
SDLC
South East

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Go
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft