SDLC Contracts in Buckinghamshire

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 41 73 76
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 -13
Contract jobs citing SDLC 7 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.44% 0.58% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 0.62% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £493 - £460
25th Percentile - £252 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £255 £575
Median % change year-on-year +116.11% -55.74% +21.05%
75th Percentile £625 £416 £588
90th Percentile £630 £511 -
South East median daily rate £575 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +13.58% -7.95% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 397 808 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 81.86% 93.63% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 641 642
10th Percentile £271 £313 £250
25th Percentile £400 £412 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.63% +3.26%
75th Percentile £560 £585 £572
90th Percentile £645 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 42
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.31 -
25th Percentile £18.00 £11.54 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £13.57 £12.18
Median % change year-on-year +84.23% +11.41% -6.31%
75th Percentile £30.00 £16.16 £14.32
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.71 £52.00
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 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 May 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 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
Milton Keynes +27 3 £625 +13.64% 4
Amersham - 3 £550 -
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 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Slack
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (28.57%) Loki
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) API Design
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) OWASP
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) GitOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
4 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Argo
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Kustomize
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform