SDLC Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 36 39
Rank change year-on-year -44 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing SDLC 8 31 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.63% 4.09% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 4.78% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 29 18
10th Percentile £483 £312 £313
25th Percentile £510 £356 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £375 £419
Median % change year-on-year +45.33% -10.45% -14.10%
75th Percentile £619 £415 £500
90th Percentile £698 £475 £591
England median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 952 648 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.78% 85.49% 82.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 455 404
10th Percentile £235 £225 £270
25th Percentile £400 £340 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £410 £455
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% -9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £626 £626
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 55 34
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.66 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.66
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +6.85% -38.57%
75th Percentile £26.33 £25.15 £48.06
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.50
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SDLC

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SDLC

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Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 September 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -5 4 £503 +40.36% 1
Nottinghamshire -18 2 £550 +44.74% 12
Derbyshire -13 1 £750 +82.93% 3
Leicestershire - 1 - - 4
SDLC
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
1 2 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Local Government
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Product Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (12.50%) MassTransit
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
2 1 (12.50%) OLE
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) WPF
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Beowulf
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
1 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) KYC
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Backlog Management
3 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (12.50%) Minimum Viable Product
3 1 (12.50%) Presales
3 1 (12.50%) Product Backlog
3 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Podman