SDLC Contract Job Trends in South London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring SDLC skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 24 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing SDLC 5 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.82% 5.45% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 6.15% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 10
10th Percentile £491 £205 £380
25th Percentile £534 £220 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £305 £525
Median % change year-on-year +100.82% -41.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £684 £425 £634
90th Percentile £724 £519 £643
London median daily rate £600 £550 £633
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.04% +5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.97
London median hourly rate £52.50 £47.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +10.53% -34.48% +92.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 179 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.70% 88.61% 83.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 122 198
10th Percentile £233 £284 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £567 £600
90th Percentile £736 £760 £675
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile - - £14.88
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.46
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile £17.45 £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.06
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -8.57% -11.67% +7.09%

SDLC
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

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SDLC

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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 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in South London

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SDLC

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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 16 September 2025. 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 -4 3 £475 +25.00%
Bromley -15 1 £750 +3.45% 5
SDLC
London

SDLC
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Mockito
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) WireMock
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Process Management
4 2 (40.00%) Workflow
5 1 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (20.00%) OO
5 1 (20.00%) OOD
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Test Management
5 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 1 (20.00%) UML
5 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow