SDLC Contracts in the South West

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 116 81
Rank change year-on-year 0 -35 -12
Contract jobs citing SDLC 39 51 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.22% 1.41% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.57% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 65
10th Percentile £400 £463 £413
25th Percentile £541 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £706 £707 £588
90th Percentile - £792 £650
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 15
10th Percentile - £50.48 £52.30
25th Percentile £48.00 £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -25.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £58.50 £54.89
% change year-on-year -17.95% +6.58% -0.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Gloucestershire +11 12 £688 +2.61% 8
Dorset +15 9 £400 - 10
Bristol +4 8 £225 -62.50% 14
Somerset +5 4 - - 9
Wiltshire 0 4 £613 +23.74% 4
Devon -5 2 £600 +20.00% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (12.82%) Apache Solr
2 4 (10.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) GCP
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub
4 2 (5.13%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
1 4 (10.26%) HTTPS
1 4 (10.26%) IPsec
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.13%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
2 5 (12.82%) Couchbase
2 5 (12.82%) MySQL
3 3 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (7.69%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (2.56%) Power BI
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
1 2 (5.13%) Git
1 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
1 2 (5.13%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (5.13%) Selenium
General
1 8 (20.51%) Aerospace
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Legal
4 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Finance
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Full Stack Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Developer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) IT Security Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior
7 2 (5.13%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) React
1 11 (28.21%) Spring
2 9 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 5 (12.82%) REST
4 4 (10.26%) JSON
4 4 (10.26%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (10.26%) YAML
5 3 (7.69%) CSS
5 3 (7.69%) HTML
5 3 (7.69%) JPA
5 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.13%) CSS3
6 2 (5.13%) HTML5
6 2 (5.13%) Jest
6 2 (5.13%) Node.js
6 2 (5.13%) React Native
7 1 (2.56%) Laravel
7 1 (2.56%) PySpark
7 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.56%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) CentOS
2 4 (10.26%) SafeRTOS
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Agile
2 17 (43.59%) DevOps
3 15 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 12 (30.77%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (25.64%) OO
6 10 (25.64%) Unit Testing
7 8 (20.51%) Change Management
7 8 (20.51%) OOP
7 8 (20.51%) Programme Management
7 8 (20.51%) Project Management
7 8 (20.51%) Secure Coding
7 8 (20.51%) Software Architecture
8 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (17.95%) Microservices
9 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (12.82%) Migration
10 4 (10.26%) Information Security
10 4 (10.26%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) C
3 11 (28.21%) Python
4 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.38%) C#
6 5 (12.82%) PHP
6 5 (12.82%) SQL
7 2 (5.13%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.56%) C++
8 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) Degree
4 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared
5 4 (10.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.77%) QA
2 6 (15.38%) NIST
3 4 (10.26%) GDPR
3 4 (10.26%) HIPAA
3 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Google
2 1 (2.56%) Databricks
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) SAP
2 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow