SDLC Contracts in the East of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 92 84 92
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -23
Contract jobs citing SDLC 22 39 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.16% 1.89% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 2.17% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 35
10th Percentile £275 £406 £381
25th Percentile £300 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.35% +2.07%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £544
90th Percentile £635 £681 £665
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.50 £65.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £65.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.04% -2.96% -6.90%
75th Percentile £36.50 £65.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £58.50 £54.89
% change year-on-year -17.95% +6.58% -0.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,801 2,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.16% 87.13% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,065 1,275
10th Percentile £207 £201 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 340 385
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Hertfordshire -6 11 £400 -20.00% 8
Suffolk +13 4 £625 +13.64% 1
Cambridgeshire -4 4 £550 +12.82% 16
Essex -2 3 £300 -53.85% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) OpenEdge
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.55%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Camtasia
1 1 (4.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (18.18%) Serverless
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (13.64%) Big Data
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (9.09%) Apache Hive
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (9.09%) Presto
3 2 (9.09%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) HBase
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) TestRail
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 2 (9.09%) Automotive
4 2 (9.09%) Electronics
4 2 (9.09%) Games
4 2 (9.09%) Military
4 2 (9.09%) Wearables
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Systems Analyst Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) Systems Programmer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Blog
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) FMCG
2 1 (4.55%) IVR
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) Scrum
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
4 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 4 (18.18%) ETL
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
5 3 (13.64%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) API Management
6 2 (9.09%) Battery Management
6 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) C
4 3 (13.64%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) C++
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) VB
6 1 (4.55%) R
6 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Informatica
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Talend
3 1 (4.55%) Adobe
3 1 (4.55%) Genesys
3 1 (4.55%) Hortonworks
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Teradata