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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing SDLC 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 0.69% - 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West London median daily rate £488 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +21.88% -27.27% -11.65%

All Process & 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 138 74 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 95.17% 81.32% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 31 67
10th Percentile £375 £158 £311
25th Percentile £450 £309 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £738 £444 £592
90th Percentile £900 £475 £650
West London median daily rate £523 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +22.94% -12.82% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 6
10th Percentile - £25.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.12 £19.73
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -16.61% +9.67%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £42.42
90th Percentile - - £52.00
West London median hourly rate £28.55 £25.15 £34.78
% change year-on-year +13.52% -27.68% -46.50%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

SDLC job vacancy trend 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 18 July 2026. 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
Uxbridge - 1 £488 - 1
SDLC
West London

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Auditing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS