SDLC Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 71 51
Rank change year-on-year -5 -20 -5
Contract jobs citing SDLC 54 50 84
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.30% 2.97% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 3.18% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 32 54
10th Percentile £497 £426 £416
25th Percentile £525 £534 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £650 £644
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +0.97% -0.96%
75th Percentile £681 £809 £769
90th Percentile £875 £838 £875
Central London median daily rate £595 £638 £631
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.99% -2.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,001 1,574 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.37% 93.63% 90.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 992 1,364
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.04% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 12
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +6.38% -23.93%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.46
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -20.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SDLC

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SDLC

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 6 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) CMS
3 1 (1.85%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 2 (3.70%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) AWS
1 9 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) GitHub
3 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Stack
4 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.70%) GCP
4 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.70%) OCI
4 2 (3.70%) Power Automate
4 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Run
5 1 (1.85%) Google Gemini
5 1 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Stackdriver
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DHCP
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Internet
1 1 (1.85%) Intranet
1 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.56%) Power BI
1 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.70%) Metadata
2 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.85%) MySQL
3 1 (1.85%) SQLPlus
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) GitLab
3 2 (3.70%) REST Assured
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
3 2 (3.70%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.85%) Postman
4 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (51.85%) Finance
2 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (18.52%) Banking
5 7 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.41%) Front Office
6 4 (7.41%) Legal
7 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Back Office
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Architect
2 7 (12.96%) Developer
2 7 (12.96%) Security Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Senior
3 6 (11.11%) Analyst
3 6 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Lead
4 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.26%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Applications Tester
6 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Tester
7 2 (3.70%) Product Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Risk Business Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) Middleware
2 6 (11.11%) .NET
2 6 (11.11%) React
2 6 (11.11%) REST
2 6 (11.11%) XML
3 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.70%) Node.js
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.70%) SOAP
4 1 (1.85%) ADO.NET
4 1 (1.85%) Ajax
4 1 (1.85%) CSS
4 1 (1.85%) HTML
4 1 (1.85%) Spring
4 1 (1.85%) STL
4 1 (1.85%) Web Services
4 1 (1.85%) XML Schema
4 1 (1.85%) XSL
4 1 (1.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.41%) Market Risk
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.70%) Derivative
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) CMDB
6 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.85%) Equities
6 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.85%) PKI
6 1 (1.85%) PMI
6 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
1 4 (7.41%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Android
2 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (46.30%) Agile
2 18 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 16 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 9 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 9 (16.67%) TOGAF
8 8 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (14.81%) Regulatory Compliance
8 8 (14.81%) Scrum
8 8 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
8 8 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (12.96%) Decision-Making
9 7 (12.96%) DevOps
9 7 (12.96%) Incident Response
9 7 (12.96%) Programme Management
9 7 (12.96%) Project Management
9 7 (12.96%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) SQL
2 9 (16.67%) Python
3 6 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (5.56%) C#
5 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) Korn
5 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.85%) C
6 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.85%) ProC
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.70%) PMP
6 1 (1.85%) CBAP
6 1 (1.85%) CFA
6 1 (1.85%) CISM
6 1 (1.85%) CISSP
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) IIBA
6 1 (1.85%) ISEB
6 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) QA
2 7 (12.96%) GDPR
3 6 (11.11%) SLA
4 2 (3.70%) Basel III
4 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.70%) GAAP
5 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.85%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.85%) GRC
5 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Argo
2 1 (1.85%) Istio
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.81%) Databricks
3 7 (12.96%) Oracle
4 6 (11.11%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.41%) SAP
6 2 (3.70%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.70%) Workday
7 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) Google
7 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.85%) Murex
7 1 (1.85%) Planon
7 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) VMware