SDLC Contracts in Central London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 57 46 77
Rank change year-on-year -11 +31 -20
Contract jobs citing SDLC 88 171 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.68% 4.63% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 5.08% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 105 99
10th Percentile £413 £420 £468
25th Percentile £491 £495 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £756 £750 £747
90th Percentile £875 £820 £825
London median daily rate £600 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,368 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.89% 91.27% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,272 3,148
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £681
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.28
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
% change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Central London 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
City of London -6 84 £644 -0.96% 17
West End of London +2 3 £425 -14.14%
SDLC
London

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (6.82%) IIS
2 5 (5.68%) Apache
2 5 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.68%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.27%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.27%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Endur
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.41%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) AWS
3 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (10.23%) Serverless
4 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (6.82%) Azure Functions
5 5 (5.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (5.68%) Azure Storage
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (4.55%) GitHub
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.27%) Azure App Service
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.14%) SSH
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.55%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (7.95%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.68%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.41%) Metadata
6 3 (3.41%) MySQL
6 3 (3.41%) Parquet
6 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.27%) KDB
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.14%) OLAP
8 1 (1.14%) OLTP
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.14%) Scylla
8 1 (1.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (13.64%) JIRA
2 10 (11.36%) Git
3 6 (6.82%) TeamCity
4 5 (5.68%) GitLab
5 4 (4.55%) JUnit
6 2 (2.27%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.27%) Deequ
6 2 (2.27%) HP UFT
6 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.27%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (2.27%) Mockito
6 2 (2.27%) ScalaTest
6 2 (2.27%) Selenium
6 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.27%) Subversion
6 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.14%) Gradle
7 1 (1.14%) Postman
7 1 (1.14%) Pylint
7 1 (1.14%) Spinnaker
General
1 28 (31.82%) Finance
2 21 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Banking
4 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.68%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Law
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (34.09%) Developer
2 15 (17.05%) Senior
3 10 (11.36%) Analyst
3 10 (11.36%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Architect
4 8 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Quantitative Developer
5 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (5.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.55%) .NET Developer
7 4 (4.55%) DevSecOps Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Lead
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.55%) SQL Developer
8 3 (3.41%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.55%) .NET
2 13 (14.77%) Kafka
3 11 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 10 (11.36%) .NET Framework
4 10 (11.36%) Web Services
5 8 (9.09%) .NET Core
6 7 (7.95%) React
7 5 (5.68%) Blazor
7 5 (5.68%) HTML
7 5 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.68%) WCF
7 5 (5.68%) WinForms
8 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.55%) JSON
8 4 (4.55%) Middleware
8 4 (4.55%) Spring
9 3 (3.41%) HTML5
9 3 (3.41%) PySpark
9 3 (3.41%) RESTful
9 3 (3.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.41%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.27%) CMDB
4 2 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.27%) Derivative
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.27%) Equities
4 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.27%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) IoT
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.05%) Windows
2 7 (7.95%) Linux
3 5 (5.68%) Unix
4 3 (3.41%) Android
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) Agile
2 37 (42.05%) DevOps
3 27 (30.68%) Software Engineering
4 26 (29.55%) CI/CD
5 20 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.64%) Microservices
7 11 (12.50%) Migration
7 11 (12.50%) Scrum
8 10 (11.36%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (10.23%) Project Management
10 8 (9.09%) ITIL
10 8 (9.09%) Software Deployment
10 8 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (7.95%) Analytics
11 7 (7.95%) Configuration Management
11 7 (7.95%) Front End Development
12 6 (6.82%) Data Engineering
12 6 (6.82%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (6.82%) DevSecOps
12 6 (6.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.50%) SQL
2 29 (32.95%) C#
3 22 (25.00%) Python
4 14 (15.91%) Java
5 11 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.09%) T-SQL
8 6 (6.82%) C++
9 5 (5.68%) Go
9 5 (5.68%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.68%) Scala
10 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.14%) Perl
11 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) Degree
2 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.27%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) ISEB
4 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.41%) PMO
4 2 (2.27%) EMIR
5 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.82%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.68%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
3 2 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (1.14%) Podman
4 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.14%) Rancher
4 1 (1.14%) vRealize
4 1 (1.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Oracle
2 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.68%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.55%) Databricks
5 3 (3.41%) OpenLink
5 3 (3.41%) VMware
6 2 (2.27%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.27%) IBM
6 2 (2.27%) Micro Focus
6 2 (2.27%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) Solace
6 2 (2.27%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.14%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.14%) Citrix
7 1 (1.14%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.14%) New Relic
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) Sybase