SDLC Contracts in Birmingham

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 55 77
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -31
Contract jobs citing SDLC 10 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.31% 2.21% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.51% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile - - £383
25th Percentile - £263 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% -12.63% +10.14%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £553
90th Percentile £725 £515 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £675 £538 £499
% change year-on-year +25.46% +7.82% +14.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 798 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.27% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 537 880
10th Percentile £248 £263 £219
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (10.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (10.00%) JDBC
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) ISEB
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) ICL
2 1 (10.00%) Sage