SDLC Contracts in Manchester

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 69 80
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing SDLC 21 49 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.38% 2.59% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.82% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 57
10th Percentile £434 £393 £330
25th Percentile £472 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +23.84%
75th Percentile £647 £570 £606
90th Percentile £668 £595 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £22.80 £39.55 -
25th Percentile £27.00 £41.88 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% - -
75th Percentile £41.00 - -
90th Percentile £45.20 - -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% +52.94% -2.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,321 1,738 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.81% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 1,273 1,807
10th Percentile £319 £315 £263
25th Percentile £407 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £595 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 51
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (19.05%) Serverless
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) BrowserStack
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Batch
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MySQL
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Pa11y
2 1 (4.76%) TestCafe
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Automotive
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Lead
2 2 (9.52%) Senior
2 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Games Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Research Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Research Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Team Leader
3 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
1 2 (9.52%) React
1 2 (9.52%) Spring
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) Jest
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) Next.js
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.76%) Online Gambling
2 1 (4.76%) Online Games
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
4 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) BDD
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Product Management
6 2 (9.52%) Requirements Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Scrum
6 2 (9.52%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) Go
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) C
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) Fortran
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) ISO 22301
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) HP Fortify
3 2 (9.52%) Grafana
3 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Kibana
4 1 (4.76%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
1 2 (9.52%) Splunk
2 1 (4.76%) VMware