SDLC Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 58 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing SDLC 7 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.56% 1.20% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.39% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £381 £550 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -13.25%
75th Percentile £668 £591 £475
90th Percentile £694 £596 -
South West median daily rate £450 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -23.40% +9.25% -8.86%

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 404 504 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 90.18% 86.75% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 350 558
10th Percentile £307 £362 £356
25th Percentile £498 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% - -
75th Percentile £651 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £723
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 15
10th Percentile £12.50 - £16.62
25th Percentile £18.87 - £40.85
Median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.78% -74.42% -18.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £67.00
90th Percentile - £22.23 £74.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SDLC

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Wiltshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SDLC

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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 27 October 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
Corsham +16 3 £630 +9.57% 1
Swindon -2 2 £488 - 2
SDLC
South West

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Digital Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) OWASP
3 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
3 2 (28.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) CISSP
4 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) OPNET
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce