SDLC Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 15 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 28.30% - 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 35.71% - 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +69.70%
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £506 £475 £595
% change year-on-year +6.58% -20.17% +33.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 33 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 79.25% 97.06% 76.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 46
10th Percentile £206 £241 £193
25th Percentile £270 £344 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -7.32% -1.44%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £550
90th Percentile £519 £591 £763
Surrey median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £23.00 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £12.43
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +125.35% -
75th Percentile £69.69 - £15.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £30.30 £18.75
Surrey median hourly rate £66.99 £27.75 £18.35
% change year-on-year +141.41% +51.23% -59.22%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Guildford

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Histogram in Guildford

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in Guildford over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in Guildford

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) SonarQube
2 4 (26.67%) Postman
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
1 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Test Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) AngularJS
1 11 (73.33%) Quarkus
2 4 (26.67%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
1 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) Scrum
2 14 (93.33%) Sprint Planning
2 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
3 11 (73.33%) DevSecOps
3 11 (73.33%) Front End Development
3 11 (73.33%) Unit Testing
4 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 10 (66.67%) Sprint Review
5 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
5 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 4 (26.67%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Test Management
5 4 (26.67%) User Stories
6 1 (6.67%) Clean Code
6 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
6 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Argo
1 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Red Hat