SDLC Contracts in Portsmouth

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 26 42 30
Rank change year-on-year +16 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 2 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 1.63% 1.34% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.50% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £134 -
25th Percentile - £234 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% -28.26%
75th Percentile - - £419
90th Percentile - - £461
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £50.50 - £52.15
25th Percentile £51.25 - £52.38
Median hourly rate £52.50 £67.02 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +25.27% -15.42%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £56.25
90th Percentile £54.50 - £57.45
Hampshire median hourly rate £52.50 £67.02 £52.75
% change year-on-year -21.67% +27.05% +8.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 266 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 81.30% 88.96% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 112 138
10th Percentile £363 £400 £201
25th Percentile £438 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +14.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £574
90th Percentile £660 £848 £672
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 100 22
10th Percentile £40.88 £51.06 £45.06
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.40 £51.44
Median hourly rate £58.88 £59.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +3.37% +27.78%
75th Percentile £63.44 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £66.88 £76.86 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SysML
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java