SDLC Contracts in Dorset

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 35 31
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing SDLC 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 5.45% 0.45% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 0.55% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £500
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £598 - -
South West median daily rate £625 £600 £520
% change year-on-year +4.17% +15.38% +12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.21 -
South West median hourly rate £51.50 £60.13 £75.00
% change year-on-year -14.35% -19.83% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 141 182 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 85.45% 82.73% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 106 91
10th Percentile £175 £160 £276
25th Percentile £175 £258 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.17% +16.36%
75th Percentile £630 £610 £575
90th Percentile £825 £638 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 38
10th Percentile £11.87 £17.50 £20.88
25th Percentile £13.69 £48.86 £45.18
Median hourly rate £15.31 £56.29 £51.64
Median % change year-on-year -72.80% +9.02% +8.71%
75th Percentile £56.49 £62.72 £60.13
90th Percentile £61.25 £70.77 £79.40
South West median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.61
% change year-on-year -21.95% +26.52% +8.02%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Dorset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Dorset

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Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Dorset over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Dorset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Dorset

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Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Bournemouth - 9 £400 - 1
SDLC
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 5 (55.56%) Apache Solr
2 4 (44.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
1 4 (44.44%) HTTPS
1 4 (44.44%) IPsec
1 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) NoSQL
2 5 (55.56%) Couchbase
2 5 (55.56%) MySQL
3 3 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (33.33%) CockroachDB
General
1 4 (44.44%) Legal
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) JSON
1 4 (44.44%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (44.44%) YAML
2 3 (33.33%) JPA
2 3 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Laravel
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) CentOS
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 4 (44.44%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Information Security
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 3 (33.33%) Community of Practice
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Information Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) HIPAA
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
1 4 (44.44%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft