SDLC Contracts in Tower Hamlets

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tower Hamlets 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 11 18 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 3 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 5.36% 5.41% 11.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 5.56% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £522 - £511
25th Percentile £563 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £585 £534
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +9.55% -
75th Percentile - £592 £734
90th Percentile - £660 £800
East London median daily rate £630 £585 £534
% change year-on-year +7.69% +9.55% -28.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51 108 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 91.07% 97.30% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 104 51
10th Percentile £482 £450 £320
25th Percentile £495 £531 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £590 £578
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +2.08% +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £756
90th Percentile £653 £770 £800
East London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £28.60 £23.32 £22.49
% change year-on-year +22.64% +3.71% +14.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Tower Hamlets

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Tower Hamlets

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Tower Hamlets

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Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Tower Hamlets 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
Canary Wharf +5 3 £630 +7.69%
SDLC
East London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) BCP
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GRC
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow