SDLC Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 104 73
Rank change year-on-year +2 -31 +25
Contract jobs citing SDLC 91 111 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.67% 1.97% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.21% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 63 168
10th Percentile £360 £398 £384
25th Percentile £445 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £597 £600
90th Percentile £688 £673 £691
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 19
10th Percentile £58.45 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £59.88 £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.51 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% +5.26% -18.10%
75th Percentile £65.89 £59.63 £61.63
90th Percentile £66.57 £61.50 £65.11
England median hourly rate £48.00 £52.97 £52.00
% change year-on-year -9.38% +1.87% -7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,603 5,023 6,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.23% 89.08% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,482 4,732
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +8 47 £625 +19.05% 37
Berkshire -2 38 £625 +5.49% 26
Surrey +24 21 £475 +7.95% 18
Hampshire -21 18 £550 - 18
Buckinghamshire +24 7 £550 +116.11% 5
West Sussex - 4 £445 - 4
Oxfordshire -3 2 £488 -7.14% 7
Kent +6 1 - - 3
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.10%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.46%) Azure
2 17 (18.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 17 (18.68%) Azure Data Factory
2 17 (18.68%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (16.48%) Entra ID
4 14 (15.38%) Serverless
5 13 (14.29%) Azure Functions
6 7 (7.69%) AWS
6 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.30%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.30%) PaaS
7 3 (3.30%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.20%) GCP
8 2 (2.20%) Slack
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) BGP
1 3 (3.30%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (3.30%) IOS XR
1 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.20%) Firewall
3 1 (1.10%) Network Security
3 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.78%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.59%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.30%) MySQL
3 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.10%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.10%) Redis
4 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Git
2 9 (9.89%) JIRA
3 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.30%) Selenium
4 3 (3.30%) TestRail
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) JMeter
5 1 (1.10%) JUnit
5 1 (1.10%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.10%) Maven
5 1 (1.10%) Mockito
5 1 (1.10%) NUnit
5 1 (1.10%) Postman
5 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.10%) Subversion
General
1 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
4 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.49%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Automotive
7 3 (3.30%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.10%) Banking
8 1 (1.10%) French Language
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (18.68%) Azure Developer
4 14 (15.38%) Analyst
4 14 (15.38%) Senior
5 9 (9.89%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (7.69%) Architect
7 6 (6.59%) DevOps Architect
7 6 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Python Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Product Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Test Manager
9 4 (4.40%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Network Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Systems Test Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) React
2 7 (7.69%) JSON
3 6 (6.59%) RESTful
3 6 (6.59%) Web Services
3 6 (6.59%) XML
4 5 (5.49%) .NET
4 5 (5.49%) Django
5 4 (4.40%) HTML
5 4 (4.40%) REST
6 3 (3.30%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (3.30%) YANG
7 2 (2.20%) ADO
7 2 (2.20%) Blazor
7 2 (2.20%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (2.20%) Loki
7 2 (2.20%) Spring
7 2 (2.20%) WCF
8 1 (1.10%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.88%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.49%) Device Driver
4 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.30%) IoT
5 3 (3.30%) Life Science
5 3 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.20%) NHS
7 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.10%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.58%) Linux
2 11 (12.09%) Windows
3 7 (7.69%) Unix
4 5 (5.49%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) Agile
2 44 (48.35%) DevOps
3 33 (36.26%) CI/CD
4 22 (24.18%) Product Backlog
5 19 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (19.78%) Full Stack Development
6 18 (19.78%) Microservices
7 17 (18.68%) Test Automation
8 16 (17.58%) Scrum
9 15 (16.48%) Change Management
10 14 (15.38%) Computer Science
11 12 (13.19%) Software Engineering
11 12 (13.19%) Unit Testing
12 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (9.89%) Roadmaps
13 8 (8.79%) Requirements Gathering
13 8 (8.79%) Software Testing
14 6 (6.59%) Incident Management
14 6 (6.59%) TDD
14 6 (6.59%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) Python
2 16 (17.58%) Java
3 12 (13.19%) JavaScript
4 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.79%) SQL
5 8 (8.79%) VB
6 7 (7.69%) VBScript
7 6 (6.59%) Bash
8 5 (5.49%) C
9 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.40%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.30%) C#
11 1 (1.10%) C++
11 1 (1.10%) PHP
11 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) Degree
2 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.69%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (4.40%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.30%) HNC
6 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (1.10%) PMP
7 1 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) HL7
3 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) COBIT
3 1 (1.10%) PMO
3 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) Ansible
3 2 (2.20%) Argo
3 2 (2.20%) Grafana
3 2 (2.20%) Kustomize
3 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.20%) SCOM
3 2 (2.20%) Terraform
4 1 (1.10%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.10%) Kibana
4 1 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (7.69%) SAP
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.30%) Adobe
3 3 (3.30%) Cisco
3 3 (3.30%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.20%) Google
4 2 (2.20%) Micro Focus
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle
5 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.10%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.10%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.10%) Nokia
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.10%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.10%) Sparx
5 1 (1.10%) Splunk