SDLC Contracts in Cambridgeshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 52 43
Rank change year-on-year +17 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing SDLC 5 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.60% 1.18% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.42% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £411 £525 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +12.82% -8.88%
75th Percentile £511 £579 £506
90th Percentile £538 £581 £533
East of England median daily rate £538 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +34.38% -23.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +3.70%

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 276 423 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.18% 82.94% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 143 251
10th Percentile £250 £209 £225
25th Percentile £369 £319 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £545 £536
90th Percentile £684 £635 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +16.96% -14.41% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 179 169
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.88 £25.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £54.50 £23.05
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% +90.48% +7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Cambridgeshire

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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 6 July 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
Peterborough +14 4 £375 -
Cambridge -1 1 £538 -2.27% 20
SDLC
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (40.00%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Release Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Epics
2 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Rockwell
1 2 (40.00%) Siemens
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow