SDLC Contract Job Trends in the Channel Islands

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > Channel Islands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Channel Islands requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Channel Islands 12.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £590
% change year-on-year -7.41% -8.47% -1.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Channel Islands

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 the Channel Islands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 87.50% 91.67% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £284 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -26.09% +53.33%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £588
90th Percentile £495 £445 -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Channel Islands

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in the Channel Islands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Channel Islands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Channel Islands citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Channel Islands citing SDLC

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Contract Job Locations in the Channel Islands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
Guernsey - 1 £450 -
Jersey - 1 £450 -
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Channel Islands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB