SDLC Contracts in Reading

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 45 61 74
Rank change year-on-year +16 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing SDLC 15 30 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.51% 2.52% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.79% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 10
10th Percentile £583 £445 £467
25th Percentile - £563 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £554
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +15.12% +0.68%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £640 £688 £676
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% +7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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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 1 May 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Serverless
3 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (40.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (13.33%) AWS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (6.67%) dbt
7 1 (6.67%) GCP
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
3 2 (13.33%) JMeter
3 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 2 (13.33%) Mockito
4 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Azure Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Python Developer
4 4 (26.67%) React Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Automation Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) HTML
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) CSS
2 6 (40.00%) React
3 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (13.33%) ADO
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
3 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (13.33%) jQuery
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) WireMock
3 2 (13.33%) XML
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (6.67%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.67%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
3 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 9 (60.00%) Unit Testing
5 8 (53.33%) Microservices
6 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (40.00%) Product Backlog
7 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (33.33%) Integration Testing
7 5 (33.33%) LLM
7 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
7 5 (33.33%) System Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Channel Management
9 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (20.00%) TDD
10 2 (13.33%) BDD
10 2 (13.33%) Change Management
10 2 (13.33%) Process Management
10 2 (13.33%) Release Management
10 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (40.00%) C#
4 5 (33.33%) Java
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft