SDLC Contracts in Berkshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 85 90
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -18
Contract jobs citing SDLC 39 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.02% 1.52% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.69% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 29
10th Percentile £445 £461 £384
25th Percentile £563 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +7.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £617
South East median daily rate £575 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +13.58% -7.95% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,594 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.91% 89.75% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 998 1,333
10th Percentile £235 £348 £264
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Reading +14 36 £625 +20.19% 11
Wokingham -5 1 £575 -11.54%
SDLC
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 17 (43.59%) Azure Data Factory
2 17 (43.59%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (35.90%) Entra ID
3 14 (35.90%) Serverless
4 13 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) AWS
6 2 (5.13%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) 4G
2 1 (2.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) JMeter
3 1 (2.56%) JUnit
3 1 (2.56%) Mockito
General
1 16 (41.03%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Developer
2 18 (46.15%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (43.59%) Azure Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Analyst
4 7 (17.95%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Python Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Product Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Defect Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Incident Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) IT Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.56%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.56%) React Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) React
2 2 (5.13%) Django
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) Web Services
2 2 (5.13%) XML
3 1 (2.56%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Camel
3 1 (2.56%) Google JAX
3 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.56%) jQuery
3 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.56%) Spring
3 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (43.59%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Life Science
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) DevOps
2 21 (53.85%) Product Backlog
3 20 (51.28%) Agile
4 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
5 18 (46.15%) Full Stack Development
5 18 (46.15%) Microservices
6 16 (41.03%) Change Management
7 13 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (33.33%) Unit Testing
8 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.38%) Backlog Refinement
9 6 (15.38%) Incident Management
9 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
10 5 (12.82%) CRM
10 5 (12.82%) Customer Service
10 5 (12.82%) Requirements Analysis
10 5 (12.82%) Scrum
11 4 (10.26%) Release Management
12 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) Java
3 4 (10.26%) C
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.56%) C++
6 1 (2.56%) R
6 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) CCSP
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.56%) CISSP
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) COBIT
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) HL7
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.13%) SCOM
2 1 (2.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Google
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe
2 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.56%) Ericsson
2 1 (2.56%) Mavenir
2 1 (2.56%) Nokia
2 1 (2.56%) SAP
2 1 (2.56%) Sparx
2 1 (2.56%) Splunk