SDLC Contracts in East London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 18 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing SDLC 3 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 2.88% 6.90% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 7.37% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 7
10th Percentile £522 £418 £460
25th Percentile £563 £423 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £585 £534
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +9.55% -28.80%
75th Percentile - £659 £667
90th Percentile - £775 £800
London median daily rate £634 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +5.63% -7.69% +6.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 217 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 94.23% 93.53% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 188 129
10th Percentile £285 £361 £198
25th Percentile £415 £433 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £528
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.23% -8.93%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £755
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £14.66 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 £11.95 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +3.71% +14.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £36.48 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 -
London median hourly rate £33.00 £28.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.45% +6.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in East London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in East London.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in East London

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Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in East London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in East London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in East London.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in East London

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Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Tower Hamlets +5 3 £630 +7.69%
SDLC
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) BCP
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GRC
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow