SDLC Contracts in Hertfordshire

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 61 55 59
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing SDLC 11 19 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.33% 2.34% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.70% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile - - £437
25th Percentile £275 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £409 £569 £703
90th Percentile £501 £768 £803
East of England median daily rate £413 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -21.43% +1.35% +2.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £36.00 £65.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -45.04% -2.96% -6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 748 703 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.45% 86.68% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 374 404
10th Percentile £235 £240 £202
25th Percentile £315 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £703 £768 £688
East of England median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 156 81
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.00 £21.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.69 £39.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Hertfordshire 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
Watford - 8 £300 - 1
Welwyn Garden City +1 1 - - 1
Hatfield -6 1 £400 -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £600 -
SDLC
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
1 3 (27.27%) OpenEdge
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Camtasia
1 1 (9.09%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon EMR
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (27.27%) Serverless
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Hive
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Presto
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) HBase
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Maven
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Games
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst Programmer
2 3 (27.27%) Programmer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Analyst Programmer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) ETL Tester
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Blog
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) FMCG
1 1 (9.09%) IVR
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
2 3 (27.27%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Capacity Management
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (18.18%) People Management
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
3 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
3 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Storyboarding
4 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Informatica
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
1 2 (18.18%) Talend
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Genesys
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow