SDLC Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 103 114
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing SDLC 48 44 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.79% 1.53% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.69% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 38
10th Percentile £445 £435 £396
25th Percentile £550 £465 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +16.46%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £588
90th Percentile £681 £675 £649
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire +5 40 £625 +5.49% 17
Buckinghamshire +30 7 £550 +36.73% 4
Oxfordshire -11 1 £488 -2.01% 4
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.08%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 26 (54.17%) Azure
2 17 (35.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 17 (35.42%) Azure Data Factory
2 17 (35.42%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (29.17%) Entra ID
3 14 (29.17%) Serverless
4 13 (27.08%) Azure Functions
5 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.33%) AWS
7 2 (4.17%) GCP
7 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.17%) PaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Slack
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) 4G
2 1 (2.08%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (45.83%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) Selenium
3 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) JMeter
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.08%) Mockito
4 1 (2.08%) Postman
4 1 (2.08%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (39.58%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Developer
2 18 (37.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (35.42%) Azure Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Analyst
5 7 (14.58%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Python Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Architect
6 5 (10.42%) Product Analyst
7 4 (8.33%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Consultant
8 3 (6.25%) Defect Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Incident Manager
9 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) IT Analyst
9 2 (4.17%) Security Consultant
9 2 (4.17%) Senior
9 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) React
2 3 (6.25%) Google JAX
2 3 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 3 (6.25%) scikit-learn
2 3 (6.25%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.17%) Django
3 2 (4.17%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (4.17%) HTML
3 2 (4.17%) Loki
3 2 (4.17%) Web Services
3 2 (4.17%) XML
4 1 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Camel
4 1 (2.08%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.08%) jQuery
4 1 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
4 1 (2.08%) Spring
4 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.33%) IoT
4 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.08%) Life Science
6 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (66.67%) DevOps
2 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 22 (45.83%) Agile
3 22 (45.83%) Product Backlog
4 18 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
4 18 (37.50%) Microservices
5 16 (33.33%) Change Management
6 14 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (27.08%) Unit Testing
8 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
9 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
10 6 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
10 6 (12.50%) Incident Management
10 6 (12.50%) Scrum
11 5 (10.42%) CRM
11 5 (10.42%) Customer Service
11 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (10.42%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (52.08%) Python
2 12 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (12.50%) C
4 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.25%) C++
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.25%) R
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
7 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) CCSP
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.08%) CISSP
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
2 3 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) COBIT
3 1 (2.08%) HL7
3 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Ansible
2 2 (4.17%) Argo
2 2 (4.17%) Grafana
2 2 (4.17%) Kustomize
2 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.17%) SCOM
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) Google
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (2.08%) Adobe
2 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.08%) SAP
2 1 (2.08%) Sparx
2 1 (2.08%) Splunk