SDLC Contracts in Leeds

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 74 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 -24
Contract jobs citing SDLC 12 21 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.49% 1.57% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.72% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 25
10th Percentile £463 - £384
25th Percentile £466 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £455
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +20.88% -9.00%
75th Percentile £534 £775 £500
90th Percentile £538 - £561
West Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £550 £453
% change year-on-year -12.73% +21.55% -9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 699 1,218 1,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.05% 91.10% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 867 1,100
10th Percentile £297 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 21
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £12.30 £35.06 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.91% +55.80% +5.29%
75th Percentile £12.53 £66.88 £27.25
90th Percentile £15.24 £70.00 £28.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £21.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -41.72% +21.88% -21.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) TestNG
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Environment Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
1 2 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) pytest
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) OOP
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) SOA
4 2 (16.67%) Software Deployment
4 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) ABAP
3 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow