SDLC Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing SDLC 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.63% - 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% - 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile £508 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 - £590
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.57%
75th Percentile £553 - £631
90th Percentile £557 - £653
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £533 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +22.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 498 187 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.06% 93.50% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 143 278
10th Percentile £313 £249 £269
25th Percentile £412 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £708
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £505 £495
% change year-on-year +3.96% +2.02% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 27
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.98 £15.85
25th Percentile - £14.44 £17.82
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -27.37% +137.50%
75th Percentile £18.32 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% -31.00% +150.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SDLC

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SDLC

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Go
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft