SDLC Contracts in Edinburgh

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 61 80
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SDLC 25 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.91% 1.60% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 1.89% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 7
10th Percentile £410 £428 £379
25th Percentile £434 £450 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +31.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £531 £588 £531
90th Percentile £558 £638 £558
Scotland median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 600 689 1,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.75% 84.96% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 371 658
10th Percentile £313 £206 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £646 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 5
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -65.71% +196.28%
75th Percentile £39.40 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.38 £55.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £19.17 £19.18
% change year-on-year +4.25% -0.05% -1.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SDLC

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Edinburgh

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SDLC

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (16.00%) Confluence
1 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (12.00%) Alation
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) Asana
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.00%) npm
6 1 (4.00%) OCI
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
1 1 (4.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) Snyk
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) JUnit
3 1 (4.00%) MSTest
3 1 (4.00%) NUnit
3 1 (4.00%) Postman
3 1 (4.00%) Ranorex
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 18 (72.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (40.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Data Governance Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Data Governance Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Data Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Governance Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Project Governance Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) Jest
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) Playwright
2 1 (4.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) Web Services
2 1 (4.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (4.00%) XML
2 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Derivative
2 2 (8.00%) Equities
2 2 (8.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) AIX
2 1 (4.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) Data Management
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) Data Governance
6 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (20.00%) Project Management
7 4 (16.00%) Business Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) User Stories
7 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) Data Governance Strategy
8 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) Groovy
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Data Guard
3 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) IBM
2 3 (12.00%) Informatica
3 2 (8.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (8.00%) ForgeRock
3 2 (8.00%) Reuters
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce