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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing SDLC 6 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.55% 1.08% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.27% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £471 £291
25th Percentile - £484 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £520 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +1.59%
75th Percentile - £559 £531
90th Percentile - £573 £595
East of England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -16.00%

All Process and 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 335 314 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.79% 84.64% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 113 153
10th Percentile £303 £278 £214
25th Percentile £391 £340 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% -4.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £624 £550 £563
90th Percentile £687 £600 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 85 191
10th Percentile £13.80 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.61 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £44.05 £30.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.95% -6.67%

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 22 November 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
Cambridge -6 3 - - 19
Peterborough - 3 - - 2
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 3 (50.00%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) ITSM
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Design
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) SOLID
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 3 (50.00%) Siemens
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow