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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 40 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +3
Contract jobs citing SDLC 31 28 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.02% 3.59% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 4.35% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 10
10th Percentile £313 £312 £372
25th Percentile £357 £355 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £413 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £415 £482 £538
90th Percentile £489 £590 £655
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%

All Process and 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 660 644 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.49% 82.46% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 406 545
10th Percentile £223 £267 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £453 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% -8.59% +6.45%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £630 £625 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 -7 22 £358 -19.55% 16
Nottinghamshire -2 5 £380 +12.59% 9
Derbyshire +8 4 £436 +2.65% 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) JBoss
2 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.23%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (19.35%) Serverless
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) SaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) DynamoDB
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) DB2
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
1 2 (6.45%) Postman
2 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (45.16%) Finance
2 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Marketing
5 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
1 8 (25.81%) Business Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Lead
3 5 (16.13%) Salesforce Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Scrum Master
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Financial Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Java Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Service Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) RESTful
2 6 (19.35%) REST
3 4 (12.90%) CSS
3 4 (12.90%) Django
3 4 (12.90%) GraphQL
3 4 (12.90%) HTML
3 4 (12.90%) LDAP
4 3 (9.68%) .NET
4 3 (9.68%) Kafka
5 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.45%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.45%) J2EE
5 2 (6.45%) SOAP
5 2 (6.45%) Spring
6 1 (3.23%) Middleware
6 1 (3.23%) Web Services
6 1 (3.23%) WSDL
6 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (35.48%) Scrum
4 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (22.58%) CRM
5 7 (22.58%) Project Management
6 5 (16.13%) Backlog Management
6 5 (16.13%) Budget Control
6 5 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (16.13%) TDD
7 4 (12.90%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 4 (12.90%) Business Strategy
7 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.90%) Digital Identity
7 4 (12.90%) Facial Recognition
7 4 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (12.90%) KYC
7 4 (12.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 4 (12.90%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Salesforce
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) DocuSign
4 2 (6.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.23%) Solace