SDLC Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 37 70
Rank change year-on-year -11 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing SDLC 85 189 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.90% 5.32% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 5.81% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 101 102
10th Percentile £416 £425 £469
25th Percentile £472 £508 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £770 £763 £722
90th Percentile £864 £825 £752
Central London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,971 3,251 3,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.45% 91.55% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 2,187 2,928
10th Percentile £351 £354 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £677
90th Percentile £823 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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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 8 May 2024.

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 6 (7.06%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (7.06%) IIS
2 3 (3.53%) Apache
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.35%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.35%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.88%) Azure
2 18 (21.18%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) Serverless
4 8 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.41%) Azure Functions
5 6 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Storage
6 4 (4.71%) GitHub
7 3 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.53%) GCP
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.35%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) Internet
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (27.06%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.59%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.06%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.53%) Metadata
6 3 (3.53%) MySQL
6 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.35%) KDB
7 2 (2.35%) Looker
7 2 (2.35%) Power BI
7 2 (2.35%) Tableau
8 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.18%) OLAP
8 1 (1.18%) OLTP
8 1 (1.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (14.12%) JIRA
2 11 (12.94%) Git
3 5 (5.88%) GitLab
3 5 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.53%) JUnit
5 2 (2.35%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.35%) HP UFT
5 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.35%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (2.35%) Mockito
5 2 (2.35%) ScalaTest
5 2 (2.35%) Selenium
5 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.35%) Subversion
5 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.18%) Gradle
6 1 (1.18%) Pylint
6 1 (1.18%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.18%) TestNG
6 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 26 (30.59%) Finance
2 19 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.29%) Banking
4 11 (12.94%) Investment Banking
4 11 (12.94%) Social Skills
5 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Marketing
7 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.35%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.18%) Back Office
9 1 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Front Office
9 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (32.94%) Developer
2 14 (16.47%) Senior
3 11 (12.94%) Analyst
4 10 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Quantitative Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Architect
7 6 (7.06%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.71%) SQL Developer
10 3 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.06%) .NET
2 11 (12.94%) ASP.NET
3 10 (11.76%) .NET Framework
3 10 (11.76%) Kafka
4 9 (10.59%) Web Services
5 7 (8.24%) .NET Core
6 6 (7.06%) Blazor
6 6 (7.06%) React
7 5 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.88%) WCF
7 5 (5.88%) WinForms
8 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.53%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.53%) HTML
9 3 (3.53%) JSON
9 3 (3.53%) Middleware
9 3 (3.53%) RESTful
9 3 (3.53%) Spring
10 2 (2.35%) Pandas
10 2 (2.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.24%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.35%) CMDB
4 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.35%) Derivative
4 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Equities
4 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.18%) BYOD
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.18%) DTCC
5 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.65%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Linux
3 5 (5.88%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) Android
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (44.71%) Agile
2 35 (41.18%) DevOps
3 27 (31.76%) Software Engineering
4 22 (25.88%) CI/CD
5 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.29%) Microservices
7 10 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
7 10 (11.76%) Project Management
8 8 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.41%) Front End Development
8 8 (9.41%) ITIL
8 8 (9.41%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (8.24%) Analytics
9 7 (8.24%) Configuration Management
9 7 (8.24%) Mathematics
9 7 (8.24%) Migration
9 7 (8.24%) Software Deployment
10 6 (7.06%) Data Modelling
10 6 (7.06%) Multithreading
10 6 (7.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (38.82%) SQL
2 27 (31.76%) C#
3 22 (25.88%) Python
4 11 (12.94%) Java
5 10 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.24%) C++
7 7 (8.24%) T-SQL
8 6 (7.06%) Go
8 6 (7.06%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.71%) Scala
10 2 (2.35%) MATLAB
10 2 (2.35%) R
11 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.18%) Perl
11 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.35%) ISEB
4 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) EMIR
2 3 (3.53%) PMO
3 2 (2.35%) MiFID
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.71%) Docker
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.18%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) Puppet
3 1 (1.18%) vRealize
3 1 (1.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Oracle
2 8 (9.41%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.06%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.53%) OpenLink
5 2 (2.35%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.35%) Databricks
5 2 (2.35%) Google
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) Micro Focus
5 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.35%) Solace
5 2 (2.35%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.35%) VMware
6 1 (1.18%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.18%) Citrix
6 1 (1.18%) New Relic
6 1 (1.18%) Progress
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Sybase