SDLC Contracts in Central London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 45 77
Rank change year-on-year -5 +32 -19
Contract jobs citing SDLC 88 187 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.66% 4.91% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 5.38% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 107 110
10th Percentile £419 £424 £468
25th Percentile £491 £498 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £761 £763 £722
90th Percentile £856 £825 £755
London median daily rate £600 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,177 3,473 4,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.63% 91.23% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 2,356 3,213
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £64.45
London median hourly rate £27.92 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.41% +5.41% +12.63%

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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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 -6 85 £650 - 15
West End of London +3 2 - -
SDLC
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 6 (6.82%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (6.82%) IIS
2 5 (5.68%) Apache
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.27%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.27%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Endur
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.41%) Azure
2 20 (22.73%) AWS
3 10 (11.36%) Serverless
4 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Storage
7 5 (5.68%) GitHub
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.27%) GCP
11 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.14%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.41%) Metadata
7 3 (3.41%) MySQL
7 3 (3.41%) Parquet
7 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.27%) KDB
9 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.14%) OLAP
9 1 (1.14%) OLTP
9 1 (1.14%) Power Query
9 1 (1.14%) Scylla
9 1 (1.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (13.64%) JIRA
2 11 (12.50%) Git
3 6 (6.82%) TeamCity
4 5 (5.68%) GitLab
5 3 (3.41%) JUnit
6 2 (2.27%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.27%) Deequ
6 2 (2.27%) HP UFT
6 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.27%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (2.27%) Mockito
6 2 (2.27%) ScalaTest
6 2 (2.27%) Selenium
6 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.27%) Subversion
6 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.14%) Gradle
7 1 (1.14%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.14%) TestNG
7 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 28 (31.82%) Finance
2 20 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Banking
3 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.27%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.14%) Back Office
9 1 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Front Office
9 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Law
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (32.95%) Developer
2 14 (15.91%) Senior
3 11 (12.50%) Analyst
4 10 (11.36%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Quantitative Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead
9 4 (4.55%) SQL Developer
10 3 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Endur Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.27%) .NET
2 11 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 11 (12.50%) Kafka
3 10 (11.36%) .NET Framework
4 9 (10.23%) Web Services
5 7 (7.95%) .NET Core
6 6 (6.82%) Blazor
6 6 (6.82%) React
7 5 (5.68%) JSON
7 5 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.68%) WCF
7 5 (5.68%) WinForms
8 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.55%) HTML
8 4 (4.55%) Middleware
9 3 (3.41%) Apache Avro
9 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.41%) JSON Schema
9 3 (3.41%) PySpark
9 3 (3.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.41%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.27%) CMDB
4 2 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.27%) Derivative
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Equities
4 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.27%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.14%) DTCC
5 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.14%) PKI
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.32%) Windows
2 7 (7.95%) Linux
3 5 (5.68%) Unix
4 3 (3.41%) Android
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.73%) Agile
2 36 (40.91%) DevOps
3 28 (31.82%) Software Engineering
4 25 (28.41%) CI/CD
5 20 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.77%) Microservices
7 11 (12.50%) Project Management
8 10 (11.36%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (11.36%) Migration
9 9 (10.23%) Scrum
10 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.09%) Front End Development
10 8 (9.09%) ITIL
10 8 (9.09%) Software Deployment
10 8 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (7.95%) Analytics
11 7 (7.95%) Configuration Management
11 7 (7.95%) Data Engineering
11 7 (7.95%) Test Automation
12 6 (6.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.50%) SQL
2 27 (30.68%) C#
3 22 (25.00%) Python
4 12 (13.64%) Java
5 11 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.23%) T-SQL
7 7 (7.95%) C++
8 6 (6.82%) Go
8 6 (6.82%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.68%) Scala
10 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.14%) Perl
10 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.09%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.27%) ISEB
4 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) EMIR
2 3 (3.41%) PMO
3 2 (2.27%) MiFID
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.68%) Docker
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
3 2 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.14%) Rancher
4 1 (1.14%) vRealize
4 1 (1.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Oracle
2 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.82%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.55%) Databricks
5 3 (3.41%) OpenLink
5 3 (3.41%) VMware
6 2 (2.27%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.27%) IBM
6 2 (2.27%) Micro Focus
6 2 (2.27%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) Solace
6 2 (2.27%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.14%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.14%) Citrix
7 1 (1.14%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.14%) New Relic
7 1 (1.14%) Progress
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) Sybase