SDLC Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 27 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing SDLC 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 1.48% 2.74% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.94% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £825 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £325 £625
Median % change year-on-year +161.54% -48.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £875 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median daily rate £850 £325 £625
% change year-on-year +161.54% -48.00% +19.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

SDLC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 136 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 84.73% 93.15% 80.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 67 73
10th Percentile £325 £143 £211
25th Percentile £400 £219 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £330 £488
Median % change year-on-year +43.94% -32.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £610 £650
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £330 £488
% change year-on-year +43.94% -32.31% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 5
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £15.00 - £11.08
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +93.44% -19.35%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.31 £16.00
90th Percentile - £78.47 £17.20
County Antrim median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 £14.25
% change year-on-year -0.74% +69.68% -8.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Belfast

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Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SDLC

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Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SDLC

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) KDB
1 2 (66.67%) Kdb+
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) KDB Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) People Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
SDLC jobs