SDLC Contract Job Trends in Watford

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing SDLC 4 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 7.02% 1.45% 7.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% 1.69% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £445 - £404
25th Percentile £451 £338 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £488 £363 £663
90th Percentile - - £688
Hertfordshire median daily rate £475 £488 £469
% change year-on-year -2.56% +4.00% -35.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52 59 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 91.23% 85.51% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 45 100
10th Percentile £182 £283 £202
25th Percentile £400 £306 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £434
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -13.54% -21.14%
75th Percentile £575 £495 £638
90th Percentile £625 £583 £706
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £456 £524
% change year-on-year +15.07% -12.89% -4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.80 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £13.97 -
Median hourly rate £23.12 £14.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.43% - -
75th Percentile £29.58 £16.75 -
90th Percentile £32.75 £17.95 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.77% - +3.54%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Watford

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing SDLC

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Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Apigee
1 1 (25.00%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) CCTV Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Order to Cash
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Personalization
4 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Talend