SDLC Contracts in South London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 39 38
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 19 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 7.98% 2.81% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.44% 3.14% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 9
10th Percentile £425 £378 -
25th Percentile £450 £465 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £630 £631 £475
90th Percentile - £638 £502
London median daily rate £600 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £39.26
25th Percentile - - £40.55
Median hourly rate - £52.97 £45.83
Median % change year-on-year - +15.59% -
75th Percentile - - £52.98
90th Percentile - - £55.39
London median hourly rate £61.25 £51.49 £42.00
% change year-on-year +18.97% +22.58% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 350 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 94.54% 89.29% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 279 245
10th Percentile £259 £300 £333
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £649 £638
90th Percentile £630 £752 £700
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 13
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £39.38
25th Percentile £20.25 £20.00 £40.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £50.42 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year -53.39% +8.92% -0.45%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £48.58
90th Percentile £83.75 £55.22 £49.59
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in South London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in South London

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in South London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Croydon +15 13 £620 +24.00% 1
Wandsworth - 6 £450 -
SDLC
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 11 (57.89%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Slack
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Jenkins
2 11 (57.89%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (5.26%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) Mockito
3 1 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Release Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Digital Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Digital Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead UX Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Tester
4 1 (5.26%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Spring
1 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Camel
2 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) jBPM
2 1 (5.26%) jQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Video\Live Streaming
2 4 (21.05%) Over-the-Top Content
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Change Management
1 10 (52.63%) Configuration Management
1 10 (52.63%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 10 (52.63%) Performance Testing
1 10 (52.63%) Release Management
1 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) B2C
3 6 (31.58%) User Experience
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (10.53%) BDD
7 2 (10.53%) Microservices
7 2 (10.53%) TDD
7 2 (10.53%) User Stories
8 1 (5.26%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Development
8 1 (5.26%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.26%) Splunk