SDLC Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 73 47
Rank change year-on-year +10 -26 +6
Contract jobs citing SDLC 11 12 53
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.08% 1.01% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.26% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 33
10th Percentile £385 £381 £500
25th Percentile £414 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £618 £660 £600
90th Percentile £679 - £638
South East median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.75
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £59.25
90th Percentile - - £61.20
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £63.51 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.27% +20.97% -19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 880 953 1,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.44% 79.88% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 622 661
10th Percentile £315 £360 £283
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £636
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 65 102
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £53.00 £78.75 £73.75
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £53.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +8.97% +50.87%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Hampshire

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Hampshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Hampshire

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Portsmouth - 5 - -
Southampton 0 1 £713 +7.95% 4
Farnborough - 1 £380 - 3
Fleet - 1 £440 - 6
SDLC
South East

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Anypoint
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) JIRA
2 6 (54.55%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) Cucumber
3 4 (36.36%) Postman
3 4 (36.36%) Selenium
3 4 (36.36%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Software Test Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Test Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Product Owner
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 1 (9.09%) MUnit
2 1 (9.09%) RAML
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Scrum
3 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Code Quality
4 5 (45.45%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (36.36%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
5 4 (36.36%) User Stories
6 3 (27.27%) Backlog Management
6 3 (27.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Product Backlog
7 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (9.09%) SysML
8 1 (9.09%) TDD
8 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CSPO
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) OCP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce