SDLC Contracts in the Midlands

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 86 59
Rank change year-on-year -13 -27 +8
Contract jobs citing SDLC 34 75 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.22% 2.29% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 2.62% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 55 142
10th Percentile £250 £303 £376
25th Percentile £445 £419 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £499
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +0.20% +17.69%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £538
90th Percentile £850 £738 £606
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,867 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.41% 87.68% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 2,015 3,259
10th Percentile £231 £263 £250
25th Percentile £358 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 135
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
West Midlands -18 21 £675 +26.76% 52
East Midlands +5 13 £468 +3.89% 31
SDLC
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (11.76%) CMS
2 3 (8.82%) Drupal
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) SAP CO
1 3 (8.82%) SAP FI
1 3 (8.82%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) SaaS
4 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub
7 1 (2.94%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) DNS
1 3 (8.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) DB2
3 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.88%) Metadata
3 2 (5.88%) OLAP
3 2 (5.88%) OLTP
3 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Artifactory
3 3 (8.82%) Git
3 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.82%) Selenium
3 3 (8.82%) Subversion
4 2 (5.88%) kappa
4 2 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Law
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.94%) Publishing
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Developer
2 9 (26.47%) Architect
3 7 (20.59%) SAP Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Application Development Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Applications Development Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Applications Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Development Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Head of Application Development
6 3 (8.82%) Head of Development
6 3 (8.82%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) React
3 4 (11.76%) SAP PI
4 3 (8.82%) CSS
4 3 (8.82%) HTML
4 3 (8.82%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.88%) jQuery
5 2 (5.88%) RESTful
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.94%) BREW
6 1 (2.94%) Keras
6 1 (2.94%) NumPy
6 1 (2.94%) Pandas
6 1 (2.94%) PySpark
6 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Public Cloud
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 4 (11.76%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Android
1 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.94%) VMS
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Agile
2 10 (29.41%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.65%) Microservices
5 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (14.71%) Project Management
5 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
5 5 (14.71%) Scrum
5 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
6 4 (11.76%) Architectural Design
6 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (11.76%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (11.76%) Kanban
6 4 (11.76%) Migration
6 4 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.76%) Software Testing
6 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.76%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) ABAP
3 4 (11.76%) C
3 4 (11.76%) C#
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) COBOL
6 1 (2.94%) PHP
6 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) R
6 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) APMG
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) ISEB
3 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.94%) PhD
3 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.94%) PMP
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.94%) Puppet
2 1 (2.94%) Rancher
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) SAP
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.94%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) ICL
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Planview
4 1 (2.94%) Sage
4 1 (2.94%) VMware