SDLC Contracts in Oxford

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing SDLC 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 4.17% 0.96% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 1.15% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £483 - £427
25th Percentile £494 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £454
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.38%
75th Percentile £531 - £473
90th Percentile £543 - £474
Oxfordshire median daily rate £513 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +5.13% -7.14% -10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 87 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 93.75% 83.65% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 58 85
10th Percentile £206 £250 £300
25th Percentile £360 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £525 £550
90th Percentile £700 £575 £678
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 2
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.75 £22.05
25th Percentile £16.96 £13.00 £22.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £21.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -14.29% +30.95%
75th Percentile £46.30 £39.13 £27.13
90th Percentile £46.78 £65.00 £27.35
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +38.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Oxford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Oxford.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Oxford

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Oxford.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Oxford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Campaign
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) B2C
1 1 (50.00%) Campaign Management
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Email Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe