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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 -7
Contract jobs citing SDLC 20 17 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.27% 2.51% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.94% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 4
10th Percentile £327 £310 £534
25th Percentile £357 £313 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £400 £638
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -37.25% +44.89%
75th Percentile £398 £415 £663
90th Percentile £473 £441 £685
England median daily rate £502 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -8.73% -5.98% -2.50%

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 745 578 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.56% 85.50% 83.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 340 441
10th Percentile £188 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -7.05% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £637 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 28 51
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £35.23 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%

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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 December 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 4 December 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 -17 13 £358 -10.50% 2
Nottinghamshire -3 4 £380 +12.59% 5
Derbyshire +4 3 £463 -
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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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (25.00%) Serverless
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
1 6 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 5 (25.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Scrum Master
4 2 (10.00%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) RESTful
2 4 (20.00%) Django
2 4 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) J2EE
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) LDAP
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) CRM
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Scrum
4 5 (25.00%) Backlog Management
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (25.00%) TDD
5 4 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 4 (20.00%) KYC
5 4 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 4 (20.00%) Project Management
5 4 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Data Flow Diagram
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) DocuSign
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI