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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 31 30
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing SDLC 97 54 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.71% 6.51% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.59% 7.06% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 37 23
10th Percentile £350 £369 £444
25th Percentile £413 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -18.18% +14.46%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £638
90th Percentile £580 £619 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £469 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% -14.77% +15.79%

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 714 765 825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.58% 92.28% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 501 583
10th Percentile £300 £275 £350
25th Percentile £385 £385 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 37 33
10th Percentile £15.59 £12.03 -
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.71 £31.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.43% +121.05% -64.38%
75th Percentile £23.86 £53.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £72.17 £67.50 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year +2.05% +21.95% -57.28%

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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 22 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 4 (4.12%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.03%) Apache
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) JBoss
2 1 (1.03%) SAS
2 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.03%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.49%) AWS
2 13 (13.40%) Azure
2 13 (13.40%) SaaS
3 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.15%) BlazeMeter
4 5 (5.15%) GitHub
4 5 (5.15%) PaaS
5 4 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.09%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.06%) OCI
7 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.03%) IaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.03%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.90%) MongoDB
2 27 (27.84%) DB2
3 26 (26.80%) Relational Database
4 17 (17.53%) KDB
4 17 (17.53%) Kdb+
5 5 (5.15%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.09%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.06%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.03%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 30 (30.93%) JUnit
2 10 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.19%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.15%) Git
4 5 (5.15%) JIRA
5 3 (3.09%) IntelliJ
5 3 (3.09%) PyCharm
5 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.06%) Gradle
6 2 (2.06%) Maven
7 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.03%) GitLab
7 1 (1.03%) GoCD
7 1 (1.03%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.03%) Selenium
7 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.03%) Subversion
General
1 49 (50.52%) Finance
1 49 (50.52%) Social Skills
2 32 (32.99%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (31.96%) Banking
4 30 (30.93%) Investment Banking
5 17 (17.53%) Front Office
6 6 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.03%) Electronics
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Marketing
9 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (79.38%) Developer
2 38 (39.18%) Python Developer
3 34 (35.05%) Java Developer
4 16 (16.49%) C++ Developer
4 16 (16.49%) Senior
5 14 (14.43%) Linux Developer
6 13 (13.40%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 13 (13.40%) Senior C++ Developer
6 13 (13.40%) Senior Developer
6 13 (13.40%) Senior Python Developer
7 9 (9.28%) SQL Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Sybase Developer
9 5 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Analyst
10 4 (4.12%) Python Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Business Analyst
11 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (3.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (34.02%) Spring
2 22 (22.68%) Kafka
3 18 (18.56%) JMS
4 6 (6.19%) React
5 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.15%) CSS
6 3 (3.09%) REST
6 3 (3.09%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.06%) MSMQ
7 2 (2.06%) PySpark
7 2 (2.06%) RESTful
7 2 (2.06%) SOAP
7 2 (2.06%) Web Services
8 1 (1.03%) DOM
8 1 (1.03%) Java EE
8 1 (1.03%) JAX-RS
8 1 (1.03%) JPA
8 1 (1.03%) JSON
8 1 (1.03%) Node.js
8 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.77%) Data Structures
2 21 (21.65%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (19.59%) Equities
4 14 (14.43%) Public Cloud
5 10 (10.31%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (6.19%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (5.15%) Algorithms
8 4 (4.12%) Derivative
8 4 (4.12%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.06%) Clustering
9 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.06%) Replication
10 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
10 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
10 1 (1.03%) NVMe
10 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 58 (59.79%) Linux
2 31 (31.96%) Windows
3 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.09%) Unix
4 2 (2.06%) AIX
4 2 (2.06%) Solaris
5 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) Agile
2 35 (36.08%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (22.68%) Database Tuning
3 22 (22.68%) Multithreading
3 22 (22.68%) Performance Tuning
4 20 (20.62%) Containerisation
4 20 (20.62%) Open Source
5 18 (18.56%) CI/CD
6 17 (17.53%) Data Science
6 17 (17.53%) Software Engineering
7 15 (15.46%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (14.43%) DevOps
9 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
10 11 (11.34%) Data Protection
11 9 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.25%) Microservices
12 8 (8.25%) Operational Stability
13 6 (6.19%) Continuous Delivery
13 6 (6.19%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (6.19%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (69.07%) Python
2 42 (43.30%) Java
3 36 (37.11%) SQL
4 20 (20.62%) Shell Script
5 17 (17.53%) C++
6 11 (11.34%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.25%) Perl
8 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
9 6 (6.19%) C#
10 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
10 4 (4.12%) R
11 3 (3.09%) Go
12 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (4.12%) Degree
2 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.03%) PMP
2 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.09%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (27.84%) Docker
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.03%) GPFS
3 1 (1.03%) NFS
Systems Management
1 32 (32.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.31%) Terraform
3 6 (6.19%) Grafana
4 5 (5.15%) Ansible
5 2 (2.06%) Data Guard
5 2 (2.06%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (1.03%) Podman
6 1 (1.03%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.03%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 26 (26.80%) Sybase
2 9 (9.28%) Oracle
3 7 (7.22%) Dynatrace
3 7 (7.22%) Splunk
4 6 (6.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.09%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.09%) IBM
6 2 (2.06%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.06%) Dell
6 2 (2.06%) Netskope
6 2 (2.06%) Proofpoint
6 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.06%) Symantec
7 1 (1.03%) Brocade
7 1 (1.03%) EMC
7 1 (1.03%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) NetApp
7 1 (1.03%) Pega
7 1 (1.03%) Veritas