SDLC Contracts in Central London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 56 40
Rank change year-on-year -12 -16 +29
Contract jobs citing SDLC 58 86 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.90% 3.52% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 3.89% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 54 112
10th Percentile £423 £433 £423
25th Percentile £453 £506 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +4.21%
75th Percentile £781 £755 £763
90th Percentile £963 £864 £825
London median daily rate £630 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +7.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London -15 56 £638 -1.92% 26
West End of London -2 2 £474 - 4
Camden - 2 £474 -
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London

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
1 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) Apache
3 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.72%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Endur
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.72%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Azure
2 9 (15.52%) AWS
3 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.90%) GCP
5 4 (6.90%) SaaS
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) Serverless
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.72%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) VPN
2 2 (3.45%) DHCP
2 2 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Power BI
2 5 (8.62%) DB2
2 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
2 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.90%) Big Data
3 4 (6.90%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (6.90%) Data Mining
3 4 (6.90%) Hadoop
3 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.17%) MySQL
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.45%) CockroachDB
5 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.45%) KDB
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.45%) Redis
6 1 (1.72%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) JIRA
2 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) Git
4 4 (6.90%) JUnit
5 3 (5.17%) Maven
6 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.45%) ChangeMan
6 2 (3.45%) GitLab
6 2 (3.45%) Mockito
6 2 (3.45%) Postman
6 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.45%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (3.45%) SoapUI
6 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.45%) Subversion
6 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (3.45%) Xcode
6 2 (3.45%) XCTest
7 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 27 (46.55%) Finance
3 21 (36.21%) Banking
4 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (17.24%) Investment Banking
6 5 (8.62%) Front Office
7 4 (6.90%) Back Office
8 3 (5.17%) Billing
8 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
8 3 (5.17%) Retail Banking
9 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.72%) Legal
10 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) Developer
2 10 (17.24%) Java Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) ETRM Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Front Office Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Product Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Risk Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Tester
7 2 (3.45%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) AngularJS
1 7 (12.07%) Kafka
2 6 (10.34%) Spring
3 5 (8.62%) .NET
3 5 (8.62%) HTML
3 5 (8.62%) React
3 5 (8.62%) REST
3 5 (8.62%) Web Services
4 4 (6.90%) HTML5
4 4 (6.90%) RESTful
5 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.17%) CSS
5 3 (5.17%) Smart Contracts
5 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.45%) Hibernate
6 2 (3.45%) Material-UI
6 2 (3.45%) Middleware
6 2 (3.45%) SOAP
6 2 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Equities
2 4 (6.90%) Market Risk
2 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.17%) Blockchain
3 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.17%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Replication
5 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) PKI
5 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Unix
2 10 (17.24%) Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.00%) Agile
2 21 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (27.59%) DevOps
4 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
5 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (15.52%) TDD
7 8 (13.79%) Analytics
7 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (13.79%) Scrum
8 7 (12.07%) Microservices
8 7 (12.07%) Service Delivery
8 7 (12.07%) Software Testing
9 6 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
9 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.62%) Configuration Management
10 5 (8.62%) Release Management
10 5 (8.62%) Software Engineering
10 5 (8.62%) Test Automation
10 5 (8.62%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.93%) Python
1 22 (37.93%) SQL
2 18 (31.03%) Java
3 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 9 (15.52%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.62%) Perl
5 5 (8.62%) PL/SQL
6 4 (6.90%) Groovy
6 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.17%) C#
7 3 (5.17%) DAML
7 3 (5.17%) Scala
8 2 (3.45%) Bash
8 2 (3.45%) C++
8 2 (3.45%) R
8 2 (3.45%) REXX
8 2 (3.45%) VBA
9 1 (1.72%) Ada
9 1 (1.72%) COBOL
9 1 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) Degree
1 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.72%) PhD
2 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) Basel II
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Terraform
4 1 (1.72%) CASB
4 1 (1.72%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.72%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Oracle
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) OpenLink
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco
4 3 (5.17%) Logitech
4 3 (5.17%) Sybase
5 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.45%) Micro Focus
5 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.45%) Splunk
5 2 (3.45%) Workday
6 1 (1.72%) Aderant
6 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow