SDLC Contracts in the South East

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 105 69
Rank change year-on-year -21 -36 +32
Contract jobs citing SDLC 76 120 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.38% 2.07% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.31% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 69 176
10th Percentile £365 £382 £385
25th Percentile £464 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -6.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £673 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 21
10th Percentile - £46.25 -
25th Percentile - £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £67.02 £53.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.27% +7.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile - £59.63 £65.50
90th Percentile - £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £48.00 £58.50 £54.89
% change year-on-year -17.95% +6.58% -0.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -7 43 £590 +12.92% 32
Berkshire +3 33 £638 +8.05% 17
Hampshire -19 18 £550 +5.77% 26
Surrey +18 14 £625 +42.05% 16
Buckinghamshire +21 8 £570 +26.67% 10
Oxfordshire -10 2 £488 -7.14% 6
Kent +1 1 - - 6
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (7.89%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.89%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 14 (18.42%) Azure Data Factory
2 14 (18.42%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (17.11%) Entra ID
4 11 (14.47%) Serverless
5 10 (13.16%) Azure Functions
6 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (2.63%) AWS
8 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.32%) PaaS
9 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) BGP
1 3 (3.95%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (3.95%) IOS XR
1 3 (3.95%) SNA
1 3 (3.95%) VSAN
2 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.32%) Network Security
3 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.32%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.32%) MySQL
3 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.32%) Redis
3 1 (1.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (25.00%) Git
2 9 (11.84%) JIRA
3 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.63%) TestRail
4 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.32%) JMeter
4 1 (1.32%) JUnit
4 1 (1.32%) Maven
4 1 (1.32%) Mockito
4 1 (1.32%) NUnit
4 1 (1.32%) Selenium
4 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.32%) Subversion
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Finance
4 5 (6.58%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.63%) Automotive
7 2 (2.63%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.32%) Banking
8 1 (1.32%) French Language
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Developer
2 15 (19.74%) Full Stack Developer
3 14 (18.42%) Azure Developer
4 11 (14.47%) Analyst
5 9 (11.84%) Senior
6 7 (9.21%) Architect
7 6 (7.89%) DevOps Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Senior Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (6.58%) Full Stack Python Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Lead
8 5 (6.58%) Product Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Consultant
10 3 (3.95%) Digital Analyst
10 3 (3.95%) Digital Business Analyst
10 3 (3.95%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.74%) React
2 7 (9.21%) JSON
3 6 (7.89%) RESTful
4 5 (6.58%) .NET
5 4 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.26%) HTML
5 4 (5.26%) REST
5 4 (5.26%) XML
6 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (3.95%) Django
6 3 (3.95%) YAML
6 3 (3.95%) YANG
7 2 (2.63%) Blazor
7 2 (2.63%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.63%) Spring
7 2 (2.63%) WCF
7 2 (2.63%) Web Services
8 1 (1.32%) HTML5
8 1 (1.32%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.37%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.58%) Device Driver
4 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.95%) IoT
5 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Life Science
7 1 (1.32%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Windows
2 7 (9.21%) Linux
3 5 (6.58%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.63%) Unix
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) Agile
2 32 (42.11%) DevOps
3 31 (40.79%) CI/CD
4 20 (26.32%) Product Backlog
5 16 (21.05%) Microservices
6 15 (19.74%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (15.79%) Change Management
8 12 (15.79%) Scrum
8 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
9 10 (13.16%) Unit Testing
10 9 (11.84%) Roadmaps
11 8 (10.53%) Test Automation
12 6 (7.89%) Backlog Refinement
12 6 (7.89%) CRM
12 6 (7.89%) Incident Management
12 6 (7.89%) TDD
13 5 (6.58%) Acceptance Criteria
13 5 (6.58%) Customer Service
13 5 (6.58%) OO
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.21%) Python
2 10 (13.16%) Java
2 10 (13.16%) JavaScript
2 10 (13.16%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.89%) SQL
3 6 (7.89%) VB
4 5 (6.58%) VBScript
5 4 (5.26%) Bash
5 4 (5.26%) C#
5 4 (5.26%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.63%) C
8 1 (1.32%) C++
8 1 (1.32%) PHP
8 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.16%) Degree
3 8 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.26%) ISTQB
6 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.63%) HNC
8 1 (1.32%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.32%) PMP
8 1 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.32%) COBIT
2 1 (1.32%) HL7
2 1 (1.32%) PMO
2 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (3.95%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Ansible
2 3 (3.95%) Terraform
2 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.95%) vRealize
3 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) SCOM
4 1 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.32%) Kibana
4 1 (1.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 4 (5.26%) SAP
2 3 (3.95%) Adobe
2 3 (3.95%) Cisco
2 3 (3.95%) TOWER Software
2 3 (3.95%) VMware
3 1 (1.32%) Checkmarx
3 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.32%) Ericsson
3 1 (1.32%) Mavenir
3 1 (1.32%) Nokia
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.32%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.32%) Sparx
3 1 (1.32%) Splunk