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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 64 76
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SDLC 11 27 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.87% 2.45% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.86% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 10
10th Percentile £423 £445 £458
25th Percentile £445 £613 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £625 £590
Median % change year-on-year -16.64% +5.93% -3.20%
75th Percentile £714 £650 £647
90th Percentile £774 £652 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +2.13%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 539 943 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.67% 85.73% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 512 645
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +6.59% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £524 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 22
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.52 £54.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £65.56
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.04% +134.15%
75th Percentile £38.42 £74.87 £73.00
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £75.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +114.29%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SDLC

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Reading over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SDLC

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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 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JMeter
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Mockito
3 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
1 6 (54.55%) Security Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Operations Business Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Operations Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Google JAX
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) JAX
1 3 (27.27%) PyTorch
1 3 (27.27%) scikit-learn
1 3 (27.27%) TensorFlow
2 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Camel
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) jQuery
2 2 (18.18%) JSON
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) WireMock
2 2 (18.18%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) ADO
3 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Security Posture
2 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
3 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Security Architecture
2 6 (54.55%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Secure Coding
3 5 (45.45%) Workflow
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 3 (27.27%) Data Science
5 3 (27.27%) Deep Learning
5 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 3 (27.27%) Information Security
5 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) SIEM
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) C
2 3 (27.27%) C++
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) R
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) CCSP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
1 6 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (45.45%) NIST
3 3 (27.27%) EU AI Act
3 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
3 3 (27.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft