SDLC Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 51 38
Rank change year-on-year -19 -13 +31
Contract jobs citing SDLC 54 84 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.08% 3.83% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 4.23% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 54 104
10th Percentile £425 £416 £423
25th Percentile £498 £472 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £819 £755 £763
90th Percentile £963 £864 £825
Central London median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and 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 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the City of London

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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 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.41%) Apache Spark
1 4 (7.41%) Confluence
2 3 (5.56%) Apache
3 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.85%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.85%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Endur
2 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.85%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.07%) Azure
2 9 (16.67%) AWS
3 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) GCP
5 4 (7.41%) SaaS
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.56%) GitHub
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) VPN
2 2 (3.70%) DHCP
2 2 (3.70%) DNS
2 2 (3.70%) HTTP
2 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.85%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Power BI
2 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
2 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.41%) Big Data
3 4 (7.41%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (7.41%) Data Mining
3 4 (7.41%) DB2
3 4 (7.41%) Hadoop
3 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.56%) MySQL
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.70%) CockroachDB
5 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.70%) KDB
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.85%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.56%) Git
4 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
4 2 (3.70%) JUnit
4 2 (3.70%) ScriptRunner
4 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.85%) ChangeMan
5 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.85%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (1.85%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.85%) Maven
5 1 (1.85%) Selenium
5 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.85%) WebStorm
5 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 24 (44.44%) Finance
3 17 (31.48%) Banking
4 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (18.52%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Back Office
6 4 (7.41%) Front Office
7 3 (5.56%) Billing
7 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.85%) Legal
9 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Senior
4 5 (9.26%) Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) ETRM Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Product Manager
6 3 (5.56%) Risk Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Tester
7 2 (3.70%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) AngularJS
1 5 (9.26%) Kafka
1 5 (9.26%) React
2 4 (7.41%) .NET
2 4 (7.41%) RESTful
2 4 (7.41%) Spring
3 3 (5.56%) HTML
3 3 (5.56%) REST
3 3 (5.56%) Smart Contracts
3 3 (5.56%) Web Services
4 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.70%) ADO
4 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.70%) HTML5
4 2 (3.70%) JSON
4 2 (3.70%) Middleware
4 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (1.85%) CSS
5 1 (1.85%) Django
5 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Equities
2 4 (7.41%) Market Risk
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.56%) Blockchain
3 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Replication
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Unix
2 10 (18.52%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Agile
2 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (29.63%) DevOps
4 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
5 8 (14.81%) Analytics
5 8 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (14.81%) Scrum
6 7 (12.96%) Service Delivery
6 7 (12.96%) TDD
7 6 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (9.26%) Data Science
8 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (9.26%) Microservices
8 5 (9.26%) Release Management
8 5 (9.26%) Software Engineering
8 5 (9.26%) Software Testing
8 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.89%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) SQL
3 16 (29.63%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.96%) Shell Script
6 5 (9.26%) Perl
6 5 (9.26%) PL/SQL
7 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.56%) DAML
8 3 (5.56%) Scala
9 2 (3.70%) Bash
9 2 (3.70%) C#
9 2 (3.70%) C++
9 2 (3.70%) Groovy
9 2 (3.70%) R
10 1 (1.85%) ABAP
10 1 (1.85%) Ada
10 1 (1.85%) Go
10 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) Degree
1 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.85%) PhD
2 1 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) Basel II
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.26%) Ansible
3 4 (7.41%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) CASB
4 1 (1.85%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.85%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Oracle
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) OpenLink
4 3 (5.56%) Cisco
4 3 (5.56%) Logitech
4 3 (5.56%) Sybase
5 2 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.70%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.70%) Workday
6 1 (1.85%) Aderant
6 1 (1.85%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.85%) SAP
6 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow