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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 104 68
Rank change year-on-year -6 -36 +29
Contract jobs citing SDLC 88 119 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.59% 2.10% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.36% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 69 172
10th Percentile £360 £382 £385
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £686
England median daily rate £594 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.00% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 19
10th Percentile - £46.25 -
25th Percentile - £49.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £67.02 £52.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.05% +11.05% -18.10%
75th Percentile - £59.44 £61.63
90th Percentile - £61.13 £65.51
England median hourly rate £48.00 £56.25 £54.89
% change year-on-year -14.67% +2.48% -1.54%

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 4,658 5,044 6,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.18% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,504 4,640
10th Percentile £250 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 222 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.31 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -19.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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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 11 May 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 11 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
Thames Valley -5 46 £625 +19.05% 34
Berkshire -5 37 £625 +5.93% 18
Surrey +19 19 £475 +7.95% 15
Hampshire -27 18 £550 - 25
Buckinghamshire +21 7 £550 +56.14% 10
West Sussex - 4 £445 - 6
Oxfordshire -6 2 £488 -7.14% 7
Kent +3 1 - - 4
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 7 (7.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.36%) Azure
2 17 (19.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 17 (19.32%) Azure Data Factory
2 17 (19.32%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (17.05%) Entra ID
4 14 (15.91%) Serverless
5 13 (14.77%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.82%) AWS
6 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.14%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.14%) GCP
9 1 (1.14%) GitHub
9 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) BGP
1 3 (3.41%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (3.41%) IOS XR
1 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.27%) SNA
2 2 (2.27%) VSAN
3 1 (1.14%) Network Security
3 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.45%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.27%) MySQL
4 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.14%) Redis
5 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (23.86%) Git
2 10 (11.36%) JIRA
3 3 (3.41%) Selenium
3 3 (3.41%) TestRail
4 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.14%) JMeter
5 1 (1.14%) JUnit
5 1 (1.14%) Maven
5 1 (1.14%) Mockito
5 1 (1.14%) NUnit
5 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.14%) Subversion
5 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Finance
4 5 (5.68%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.41%) Automotive
7 2 (2.27%) Marketing
8 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.14%) Banking
8 1 (1.14%) French Language
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Developer
2 18 (20.45%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (19.32%) Azure Developer
4 11 (12.50%) Analyst
5 10 (11.36%) Senior
6 7 (7.95%) Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (6.82%) DevOps Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Python Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Product Analyst
8 5 (5.68%) Test Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead
9 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Digital Analyst
10 3 (3.41%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.45%) React
2 7 (7.95%) JSON
3 6 (6.82%) RESTful
3 6 (6.82%) Web Services
4 5 (5.68%) .NET
4 5 (5.68%) XML
5 4 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.55%) Django
5 4 (4.55%) HTML
5 4 (4.55%) REST
6 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (3.41%) YANG
7 2 (2.27%) Blazor
7 2 (2.27%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.27%) Spring
7 2 (2.27%) WCF
7 2 (2.27%) YAML
8 1 (1.14%) jQuery
8 1 (1.14%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.68%) Device Driver
4 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.41%) IoT
5 3 (3.41%) Life Science
5 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.77%) Linux
2 9 (10.23%) Windows
3 7 (7.95%) Unix
4 5 (5.68%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.73%) Agile
2 40 (45.45%) DevOps
3 33 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 22 (25.00%) Product Backlog
5 19 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (21.59%) Microservices
6 18 (20.45%) Full Stack Development
7 15 (17.05%) Change Management
7 15 (17.05%) Test Automation
8 14 (15.91%) Scrum
9 13 (14.77%) Unit Testing
10 12 (13.64%) Computer Science
10 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.23%) Roadmaps
12 8 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
12 8 (9.09%) Software Testing
13 7 (7.95%) TDD
14 6 (6.82%) CRM
14 6 (6.82%) Incident Management
14 6 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.95%) Python
2 13 (14.77%) Java
3 11 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.95%) SQL
6 6 (6.82%) VB
7 5 (5.68%) VBScript
8 4 (4.55%) Bash
8 4 (4.55%) C#
8 4 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.41%) C
10 1 (1.14%) C++
10 1 (1.14%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Degree
2 13 (14.77%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.95%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.41%) HNC
8 1 (1.14%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.14%) PMP
8 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) HL7
3 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) COBIT
3 1 (1.14%) PMO
3 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (19.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.82%) Docker
3 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Ansible
1 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) SCOM
2 2 (2.27%) Terraform
2 2 (2.27%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.27%) vRealize
3 1 (1.14%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.14%) Kibana
3 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) SAP
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.41%) Adobe
3 3 (3.41%) Cisco
3 3 (3.41%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle
4 2 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.14%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.14%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.14%) Nokia
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.14%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.14%) Sparx
5 1 (1.14%) Splunk