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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -28 +26 -6
Contract jobs citing SDLC 20 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.00% 1.91% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 1
10th Percentile £413 £361 -
25th Percentile £425 £424 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% -20.80% +47.06%
75th Percentile £688 £552 £638
90th Percentile £700 £562 -
England median daily rate £518 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.91% -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 832 456 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.12% 87.02% 79.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 306 414
10th Percentile £194 £202 £188
25th Percentile £360 £325 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +1.61% -7.06%
75th Percentile £540 £517 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £638
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 20 64
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.97 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +24.46% +5.24%
75th Percentile £24.93 £26.00 £27.06
90th Percentile £25.77 £35.38 £51.50
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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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 18 March 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 18 March 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
Derbyshire +4 12 £650 +30.00% 2
Northamptonshire -15 7 £491 +19.90% 2
Nottinghamshire -19 1 - - 8
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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 13 (65.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (15.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
1 3 (15.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Banking
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Performance Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) OAuth
1 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (15.00%) OpenID
1 3 (15.00%) SAML
2 2 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Beowulf
2 4 (20.00%) Contract for Difference
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Use Case
2 13 (65.00%) AI
2 13 (65.00%) Data Science
3 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (45.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Runbook
6 5 (25.00%) Workflow
7 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (15.00%) OWASP
8 3 (15.00%) SABSA
8 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
8 3 (15.00%) SIEM
8 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Bicep
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GDPR
1 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.00%) GRC
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (15.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (65.00%) Podman
3 3 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) NVIDIA
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk