SDLC Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing SDLC 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.84% 0.96% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.09% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £468 £281
25th Percentile - £477 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £506 £335
Median % change year-on-year - +51.12% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £539 £386
90th Percentile - £549 £410
East of England median daily rate £475 £600 £469
% change year-on-year -20.83% +28.00% -18.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.50
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
75th Percentile - - £36.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £30.78 £36.00
% change year-on-year +127.42% -14.50% -45.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 274 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.07% 87.26% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 127 144
10th Percentile £211 £313 £225
25th Percentile £335 £409 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.63% +0.63%
75th Percentile £591 £558 £575
90th Percentile £675 £643 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 56 169
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £16.09
90th Percentile £34.09 £28.93 £30.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 26 January 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
Cambridge -4 3 - - 7
SDLC
East of England

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow