SDLC Contracts in Surrey

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

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 41 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing SDLC 5 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.68% 2.56% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 3.10% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 7
10th Percentile - £300 £349
25th Percentile £438 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £440
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +42.05% -21.08%
75th Percentile £513 £723 £500
90th Percentile - £738 £531
South East median daily rate £538 £595 £514
% change year-on-year -9.66% +15.82% -6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £67.02 £53.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% +25.27% +7.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Surrey

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Surrey

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Surrey

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Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reigate +2 2 - - 2
Staines -2 1 - -
SDLC
South East

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Balsamiq
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Finance Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Financial Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Financial Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Product Owner
1 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (40.00%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Epics
3 2 (40.00%) Insurtech
3 2 (40.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Product Vision
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance