SDLC Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring SDLC skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 13 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 1.20% 2.74% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 3.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 -
West London median daily rate £400 £481 £623
% change year-on-year -16.88% -22.69% +8.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 65 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 80.72% 89.04% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 50 209
10th Percentile £166 £268 £481
25th Percentile £288 £353 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -20.83% +26.32%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £650
90th Percentile £454 £650 £700
West London median daily rate £420 £475 £563
% change year-on-year -11.58% -15.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 0
10th Percentile £25.03 £57.25 -
25th Percentile - £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.55% - -
75th Percentile - £89.38 -
90th Percentile £27.31 £95.75 -
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.75 £72.00
% change year-on-year -45.03% -36.46% +278.95%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Hillingdon

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing SDLC

SDLC
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
West Drayton - 1 - - 1
SDLC
West London

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation