SDLC Contract Job Trends in Preston

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 3.30% - 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% - 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £800 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £700 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £48.60
25th Percentile - - £49.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £60.61 - £49.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 64 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 78.02% 91.43% 94.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 14
10th Percentile £248 £301 £350
25th Percentile £550 £451 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% +0.95% +30.43%
75th Percentile £793 £569 £636
90th Percentile £881 £639 £734
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.23% +0.09% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 40
10th Percentile £39.53 £24.76 £13.53
25th Percentile £40.74 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +48.47% +79.02% -62.21%
75th Percentile £69.80 £31.07 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £43.39 £48.20
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £40.25
% change year-on-year +58.12% -28.57% -5.29%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Preston

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing SDLC

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Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing SDLC

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Blue Team
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Red Team
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CISM
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2