SDLC Contracts in Watford

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing SDLC 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 6.78% - 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% - 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £415
75th Percentile £400 - £423
90th Percentile £411 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £400 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 111 119 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 94.07% 80.41% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 85 107
10th Percentile £296 £200 £240
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £490
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +22.45% +15.29%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £625
90th Percentile £735 £928 £638
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £13.58 - £26.50
25th Percentile £13.69 £21.00 £32.50
Median hourly rate £14.75 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% -37.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £16.06 £34.35 £37.50
90th Percentile £16.33 £38.64 £44.40
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
% change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Watford

SDLC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Watford

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 3 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
1 3 (37.50%) OpenEdge
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EMR
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Presto
1 2 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) HBase
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Analyst Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) ETL Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) People Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Informatica
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
1 2 (25.00%) Talend