SDLC Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 118 117
Rank change year-on-year +26 -1 -11
Contract jobs citing SDLC 96 99 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.05% 1.74% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.92% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 115
10th Percentile £158 £413 £360
25th Percentile £369 £475 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £682 £670
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 1
10th Percentile £29.20 £39.55 -
25th Percentile £40.79 £45.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £63.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% +50.00% -2.30%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £56.25 £53.69
% change year-on-year -14.67% +4.78% -2.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West +15 67 £463 -9.76% 63
Yorkshire +13 26 £500 -7.41% 35
North East +8 3 - - 9
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 2 (2.08%) Apache
1 2 (2.08%) Mule
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.29%) SAP PM
1 7 (7.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.04%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.04%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.00%) AWS
2 16 (16.67%) Azure
3 9 (9.38%) Serverless
4 7 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (7.29%) GitHub
5 6 (6.25%) GCP
6 5 (5.21%) BrowserStack
6 5 (5.21%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.08%) CloudBees
8 2 (2.08%) Datadog
8 2 (2.08%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) MongoDB
1 9 (9.38%) MySQL
2 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.13%) DB2
5 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.08%) Big Data
5 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.08%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Cypress.io
1 5 (5.21%) Git
1 5 (5.21%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) GitLab
3 2 (2.08%) Liquibase
3 2 (2.08%) Log4j
3 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.08%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.04%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.04%) JUnit
4 1 (1.04%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
4 1 (1.04%) Subversion
4 1 (1.04%) TestCafe
4 1 (1.04%) TestNG
4 1 (1.04%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.71%) Finance
3 12 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 11 (11.46%) Banking
5 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.08%) Automotive
8 2 (2.08%) Front Office
8 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Games
9 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Software Engineer
2 13 (13.54%) Analyst
2 13 (13.54%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.42%) Architect
3 10 (10.42%) Developer
4 8 (8.33%) Author
4 8 (8.33%) Lead
4 8 (8.33%) PLC Software Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (8.33%) Technical Author
5 6 (6.25%) SAP Analyst
5 6 (6.25%) SAP Business Analyst
6 5 (5.21%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Scrum Master
7 4 (4.17%) Consultant
7 4 (4.17%) Full Stack Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Security Consultant
7 4 (4.17%) Tester
8 3 (3.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.46%) React
2 6 (6.25%) REST
3 5 (5.21%) .NET
3 5 (5.21%) RESTful
4 4 (4.17%) Next.js
5 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.13%) Kafka
5 3 (3.13%) Node.js
6 2 (2.08%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.08%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.08%) CSS
6 2 (2.08%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.08%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.08%) HTML
6 2 (2.08%) jQuery
6 2 (2.08%) JSON
6 2 (2.08%) Middleware
6 2 (2.08%) Spring
6 2 (2.08%) Web Services
6 2 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.13%) Mainframe
2 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.08%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.04%) CMDB
4 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.04%) Online Gambling
4 1 (1.04%) Online Games
4 1 (1.04%) PKI
4 1 (1.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Linux
2 5 (5.21%) Android
2 5 (5.21%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.08%) Windows
4 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.96%) Agile
2 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 19 (19.79%) DevOps
4 18 (18.75%) Scrum
5 15 (15.63%) CI/CD
5 15 (15.63%) Waterfall
6 12 (12.50%) Microservices
7 11 (11.46%) Computer Science
7 11 (11.46%) Test Automation
8 10 (10.42%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (10.42%) TDD
9 9 (9.38%) Business Analysis
9 9 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (9.38%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.38%) User Stories
10 8 (8.33%) BDD
10 8 (8.33%) Content Strategy
10 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (7.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.92%) Java
2 13 (13.54%) SQL
3 11 (11.46%) JavaScript
3 11 (11.46%) Python
4 7 (7.29%) C
4 7 (7.29%) C#
4 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.21%) Bash
6 2 (2.08%) C++
6 2 (2.08%) Go
6 2 (2.08%) Groovy
7 1 (1.04%) ABAP
7 1 (1.04%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.04%) Fortran
7 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (22.92%) Degree
2 11 (11.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) CBAP
5 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.13%) NIST
3 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.13%) QA
4 2 (2.08%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.04%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Terraform
2 5 (5.21%) Ansible
2 5 (5.21%) Grafana
2 5 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.13%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.04%) Kibana
4 1 (1.04%) Nmap
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.38%) SAP
2 9 (9.38%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.29%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.21%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Splunk
5 2 (2.08%) Teradata
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle
6 1 (1.04%) Sage
6 1 (1.04%) VMware
6 1 (1.04%) Workday