SDLC Contracts in Oxfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 20 25 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +13
Contract jobs citing SDLC 2 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.89% 0.88% 6.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.09% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £483 - £439
25th Percentile £494 £481 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -7.14% -10.64%
75th Percentile £531 £494 £625
90th Percentile £543 - £705
South East median daily rate £538 £595 £514
% change year-on-year -9.66% +15.82% -6.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 92 184 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.79% 81.06% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 117 146
10th Percentile £250 £150 £263
25th Percentile £355 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £506 £561
90th Percentile £695 £600 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 13
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £20.85 £13.12 £25.95
Median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +38.96%
75th Percentile £46.30 £29.38 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.54 £58.00 £52.90
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Oxfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Oxford +2 2 £513 - 22
SDLC
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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