SDLC Contracts in Buckinghamshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 57 98
Rank change year-on-year +12 +41 -27
Contract jobs citing SDLC 8 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.01% 0.77% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 0.83% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £406 £298 £373
25th Percentile £508 £352 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year +44.93% -4.17% +16.13%
75th Percentile £638 £516 £650
90th Percentile £660 £566 £660
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 603 1,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 83.46% 92.63% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 455 989
10th Percentile £241 £275 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £610 £598
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 31
10th Percentile £14.58 £13.17 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.70 £16.00 £11.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +42.86% +1.82%
75th Percentile £36.75 £23.75 £17.38
90th Percentile £41.15 £24.00 £20.00
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Milton Keynes +16 5 £625 +26.58% 3
Bletchley - 1 - -
SDLC
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (25.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (25.00%) Loki
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Kanban
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) GitOps
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Volume Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Argo
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus