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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 49 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +38
Contract jobs citing SDLC 60 86 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.34% 4.03% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 4.42% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 56 83
10th Percentile £425 £456 £445
25th Percentile £524 £556 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £781 £756 £775
90th Percentile £838 £875 £825
Central London median daily rate £631 £650 £640
% change year-on-year -2.88% +1.56% +2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

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 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

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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 July 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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Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
SDLC
Central 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 8 (13.33%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.00%) Apache
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.67%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.67%) IIS
4 1 (1.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (3.33%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.67%) Endur
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.67%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 12 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (16.67%) AWS
3 10 (16.67%) SaaS
4 6 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.00%) PaaS
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.33%) GitHub
6 2 (3.33%) Serverless
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.67%) IaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) VPN
2 2 (3.33%) DHCP
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) SAN
3 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) Power BI
2 8 (13.33%) Data Mining
2 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (10.00%) Big Data
3 6 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.67%) DB2
4 4 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.00%) MySQL
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.33%) CockroachDB
6 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.33%) KDB
6 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.67%) MemSQL
7 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.00%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) JUnit
3 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (3.33%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.67%) Gradle
4 1 (1.67%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (1.67%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
General
1 30 (50.00%) Finance
2 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 23 (38.33%) Banking
4 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (21.67%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.67%) Front Office
6 3 (5.00%) Billing
6 3 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Legal
7 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) International Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Senior
3 10 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.33%) Consultant
5 7 (11.67%) Architect
5 7 (11.67%) Risk Consultant
5 7 (11.67%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (8.33%) Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) JIRA Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Tester
9 2 (3.33%) Data Business Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) GCP Architect
9 2 (3.33%) GCP Data Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Lead
9 2 (3.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) SDLC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) RESTful
2 6 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.00%) Spring
3 5 (8.33%) .NET
3 5 (8.33%) Web Services
4 4 (6.67%) Middleware
4 4 (6.67%) React
4 4 (6.67%) REST
5 3 (5.00%) HTML
5 3 (5.00%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (3.33%) ADO
6 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.33%) HTML5
6 2 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (3.33%) Node.js
6 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.33%) XML
7 1 (1.67%) MUnit
7 1 (1.67%) RAML
7 1 (1.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Market Risk
2 5 (8.33%) Equities
2 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.00%) Blockchain
3 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.00%) Derivative
3 3 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.33%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Unix
2 11 (18.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Agile
2 24 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (31.67%) DevOps
4 16 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (25.00%) Scrum
6 12 (20.00%) Analytics
7 11 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 10 (16.67%) Service Delivery
9 9 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
10 8 (13.33%) Stress Testing
11 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
12 6 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (10.00%) Microservices
12 6 (10.00%) Service Management
12 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 6 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) Python
2 23 (38.33%) SQL
3 16 (26.67%) Java
4 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.67%) Shell Script
6 5 (8.33%) Perl
7 3 (5.00%) C#
7 3 (5.00%) DAML
7 3 (5.00%) Groovy
7 3 (5.00%) Scala
7 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.33%) Bash
8 2 (3.33%) R
9 1 (1.67%) ABAP
9 1 (1.67%) Ada
9 1 (1.67%) C++
9 1 (1.67%) COBOL
9 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.67%) RPG
9 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) CCNA
4 1 (1.67%) CFA
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) PhD
4 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) QA
2 8 (13.33%) Basel II
3 3 (5.00%) GDPR
4 2 (3.33%) COBIT
5 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.67%) GAAP
5 1 (1.67%) IFRS
5 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.67%) PMO
5 1 (1.67%) SEPA
5 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Ansible
2 4 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.67%) CASB
4 1 (1.67%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) WMI
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Oracle
3 4 (6.67%) Workday
4 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco
4 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.00%) Sybase
5 2 (3.33%) Databricks
5 2 (3.33%) Logitech
5 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) Aderant
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix
6 1 (1.67%) Duck Creek
6 1 (1.67%) FNZ
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) IFS
6 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.67%) Spotify