SDLC Contracts in Glasgow

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 36 28
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing SDLC 101 50 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.66% 5.70% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.52% 6.20% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 23
10th Percentile £365 - £444
25th Percentile £413 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £638
90th Percentile £580 £626 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 7 (6.93%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) JBoss
2 1 (0.99%) SAS
2 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.99%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.99%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.87%) AWS
1 13 (12.87%) Azure
2 11 (10.89%) SaaS
3 5 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.96%) GitHub
5 3 (2.97%) BlazeMeter
5 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.97%) PaaS
6 2 (1.98%) OCI
6 2 (1.98%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.98%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.99%) IaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (0.99%) Firewall
1 1 (0.99%) iSCSI
1 1 (0.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.71%) DB2
2 27 (26.73%) MongoDB
2 27 (26.73%) Relational Database
3 15 (14.85%) KDB
3 15 (14.85%) Kdb+
4 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.95%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.98%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.99%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (26.73%) JUnit
2 9 (8.91%) JIRA
3 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.97%) Git
6 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.99%) GoCD
6 1 (0.99%) Gradle
6 1 (0.99%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.99%) Maven
6 1 (0.99%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.99%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.99%) Selenium
6 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.99%) Subversion
6 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (49.50%) Finance
2 49 (48.51%) Social Skills
3 31 (30.69%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (30.69%) Banking
4 29 (28.71%) Investment Banking
5 16 (15.84%) Front Office
6 5 (4.95%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.99%) Electronics
9 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (78.22%) Developer
2 39 (38.61%) Python Developer
3 35 (34.65%) Java Developer
4 14 (13.86%) C++ Developer
4 14 (13.86%) Senior
5 12 (11.88%) Linux Developer
6 11 (10.89%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 11 (10.89%) Senior C++ Developer
6 11 (10.89%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.89%) Senior Python Developer
7 8 (7.92%) SQL Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Sybase Developer
9 4 (3.96%) Analyst
9 4 (3.96%) Lead
9 4 (3.96%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.97%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.97%) Database Developer
11 2 (1.98%) Database Engineer
11 2 (1.98%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.70%) Spring
2 26 (25.74%) Kafka
3 17 (16.83%) JMS
4 7 (6.93%) REST
4 7 (6.93%) SOAP
4 7 (6.93%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.94%) Middleware
6 3 (2.97%) CSS
6 3 (2.97%) J2EE
6 3 (2.97%) React
7 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.98%) MSMQ
7 2 (1.98%) PySpark
7 2 (1.98%) Web Services
8 1 (0.99%) DOM
8 1 (0.99%) EJB
8 1 (0.99%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.99%) Flash
8 1 (0.99%) JDBC
8 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.73%) Data Structures
2 20 (19.80%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (16.83%) Equities
4 12 (11.88%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (10.89%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.95%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.95%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.97%) Derivative
7 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.98%) Clustering
8 2 (1.98%) Replication
9 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.99%) NVMe
9 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (61.39%) Linux
2 31 (30.69%) Windows
3 6 (5.94%) Unix
4 3 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.98%) AIX
5 2 (1.98%) Solaris
6 1 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (54.46%) Agile
2 37 (36.63%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (20.79%) Containerisation
3 21 (20.79%) Multithreading
3 21 (20.79%) Performance Tuning
4 20 (19.80%) Database Tuning
5 19 (18.81%) Open Source
6 18 (17.82%) Data Science
7 17 (16.83%) Software Engineering
8 14 (13.86%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (13.86%) DevOps
9 13 (12.87%) Data Protection
10 11 (10.89%) CI/CD
11 10 (9.90%) Test Automation
12 9 (8.91%) Microservices
13 8 (7.92%) Waterfall
14 7 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (5.94%) Continuous Integration
15 6 (5.94%) Visualisation
16 5 (4.95%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (66.34%) Python
2 41 (40.59%) Java
3 38 (37.62%) SQL
4 21 (20.79%) Shell Script
5 16 (15.84%) C++
6 9 (8.91%) Perl
6 9 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.93%) PL/SQL
7 7 (6.93%) R
8 6 (5.94%) C#
9 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.99%) Go
10 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (2.97%) Degree
2 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
2 1 (0.99%) PMP
2 1 (0.99%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.99%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (5.94%) QA
3 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (25.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.99%) GPFS
3 1 (0.99%) NFS
Systems Management
1 31 (30.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.93%) Terraform
3 4 (3.96%) Ansible
4 3 (2.97%) Grafana
5 2 (1.98%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.98%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (0.99%) Podman
6 1 (0.99%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.99%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 25 (24.75%) Sybase
2 9 (8.91%) Oracle
3 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.95%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.95%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.95%) Splunk
5 3 (2.97%) DocuSign
5 3 (2.97%) IBM
6 2 (1.98%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.98%) Dell
6 2 (1.98%) Netskope
6 2 (1.98%) Proofpoint
6 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.98%) Symantec
7 1 (0.99%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.99%) EMC
7 1 (0.99%) NetApp
7 1 (0.99%) Pega
7 1 (0.99%) Spotify
7 1 (0.99%) Veritas