SDLC Contracts in Southampton

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +25
Contract jobs citing SDLC 5 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 4.27% 4.79% 6.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 7.38% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £469 £483 £514
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +41.03%
75th Percentile £628 £605 £622
90th Percentile £683 £660 £670
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +1.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 122 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 81.20% 64.89% 80.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 82 83
10th Percentile £200 £250 £263
25th Percentile £420 £360 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +14.58%
75th Percentile £613 £637 £599
90th Percentile £695 £674 £653
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -6.70% +12.29% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 7
10th Percentile - £13.13 £19.23
25th Percentile - £66.88 £21.24
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - +196.30% +55.89%
75th Percentile - - £32.88
90th Percentile - - £46.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +94.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Southampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Southampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Southampton over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Southampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Southampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) Codeception
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Laravel
1 2 (40.00%) Phalcon
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Symfony
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Device Driver
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (40.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Enablement
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Device Driver Development
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) OO PHP
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
3 2 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded C
1 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Zend