SDLC Contracts in the East Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 49 72
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -22
Contract jobs citing SDLC 26 19 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.61% 2.20% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 2.79% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 11
10th Percentile £310 £314 £363
25th Percentile £356 £406 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +4.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £441 £565 £494
90th Percentile £537 £598 £500
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%

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 626 680 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.82% 78.70% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 447 680
10th Percentile £225 £210 £213
25th Percentile £332 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £600
90th Percentile £589 £622 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 61 52
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.15 £12.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -40.87% +33.72%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £52.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the East Midlands

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the East Midlands

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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 6 July 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 -1 17 £363 -29.44% 14
Nottinghamshire +6 7 £515 +52.59% 30
Derbyshire +8 2 £410 -3.53% 28
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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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) JBoss
2 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.85%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (15.38%) GCP
3 4 (15.38%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) DB2
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Postman
3 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.85%) ERwin
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) MagicDraw
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Scrum Master
2 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Java Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Programme Manager
3 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) REST
2 5 (19.23%) RESTful
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) HTML
3 4 (15.38%) Kafka
3 4 (15.38%) LDAP
4 3 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.69%) J2EE
5 2 (7.69%) SOAP
5 2 (7.69%) Spring
6 1 (3.85%) Django
6 1 (3.85%) JDBC
6 1 (3.85%) JSON
6 1 (3.85%) Web Services
6 1 (3.85%) WSDL
6 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Agile
2 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (42.31%) Scrum
4 6 (23.08%) Budget Control
4 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 6 (23.08%) Microservices
4 6 (23.08%) Project Management
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) Biometrics
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (15.38%) Digital Identity
6 4 (15.38%) Facial Recognition
6 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (15.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (15.38%) Servant Leadership
6 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
7 3 (11.54%) Backlog Management
7 3 (11.54%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (11.54%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) Solace