SDLC Contracts in Wiltshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 50 85 85
Rank change year-on-year +35 0 -15
Contract jobs citing SDLC 7 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.56% 0.42% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 0.51% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £448 £601 £440
25th Percentile £500 £603 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £613 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +23.74% +4.21%
75th Percentile £738 £628 £650
90th Percentile - £634 -
South West median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Wiltshire 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
Swindon +2 6 £613 - 24
Corsham - 1 £630 -
SDLC
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) BASE24
1 1 (14.29%) IntelliMatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Military
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Release Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) EMV
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 1 (14.29%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) ERP
2 3 (42.86%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) NsoIT
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 8583
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) OPNET
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) HP