SDLC Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing SDLC 3 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.59% 3.23% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 3.53% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 11
10th Percentile £398 - £463
25th Percentile £417 - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £380 £620
Median % change year-on-year +20.39% -38.71% +24.00%
75th Percentile £502 - £630
90th Percentile £523 - -
South London median daily rate £500 £380 £620
% change year-on-year +31.58% -38.71% +18.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 85 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.36% 91.40% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 62 83
10th Percentile £456 £427 £363
25th Percentile £494 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £644 £673 £630
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile - - £17.13
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +272.06% -32.60% +0.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Croydon

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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SDLC

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Croydon over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Croydon

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800