SDLC Contracts in Reading

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 74 70
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 -17
Contract jobs citing SDLC 29 13 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.44% 1.25% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.38% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 27
10th Percentile £445 £467 £405
25th Percentile £563 £507 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% +0.68% +22.22%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £588
90th Percentile £688 £676 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £638 £590 £550
% change year-on-year +8.05% +7.27% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 939 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.64% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 623 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £234
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -3.24% +5.53% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Reading over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 14 (48.28%) Azure Data Factory
2 14 (48.28%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (44.83%) Entra ID
4 10 (34.48%) Serverless
5 9 (31.03%) Azure Functions
6 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) JMeter
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Mockito
2 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
1 15 (51.72%) Full Stack Developer
2 14 (48.28%) Azure Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Product Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Defect Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Incident Manager
6 2 (6.90%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.45%) Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) React
2 2 (6.90%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.45%) jQuery
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
3 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) DevOps
1 18 (62.07%) Product Backlog
2 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 15 (51.72%) Full Stack Development
2 15 (51.72%) Microservices
3 13 (44.83%) Agile
4 11 (37.93%) Change Management
5 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (31.03%) Unit Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
7 5 (17.24%) Backlog Refinement
7 5 (17.24%) CRM
7 5 (17.24%) Customer Service
7 5 (17.24%) Incident Management
7 5 (17.24%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Release Management
9 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
10 2 (6.90%) Project Management
10 2 (6.90%) Scrum
10 2 (6.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) C
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) QA
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kibana
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe
1 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
1 1 (3.45%) Ericsson
1 1 (3.45%) Mavenir
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.45%) Nokia
1 1 (3.45%) Sparx
1 1 (3.45%) Splunk