SDLC Contracts in the East of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 84 94
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -22
Contract jobs citing SDLC 18 38 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.95% 1.90% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 2.17% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 36
10th Percentile £275 £406 £386
25th Percentile £338 £469 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.35% +2.07%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £541
90th Percentile £638 £681 £663
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.50 £65.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £65.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.04% -2.96% -6.90%
75th Percentile £36.50 £65.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £56.25 £53.69
% change year-on-year -14.67% +4.78% -2.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,618 1,752 2,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.34% 87.64% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 1,021 1,277
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £332 £322 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £555
90th Percentile £677 £700 £657
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 338 376
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.31 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.60% +50.39% -15.16%
75th Percentile £60.63 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.23 £70.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Hertfordshire -11 8 £350 -30.00% 6
Cambridgeshire -6 5 £550 +12.82% 23
Suffolk +11 3 £625 +13.64% 1
Essex 0 2 - - 1
SDLC
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (16.67%) OpenEdge
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Camtasia
1 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.56%) TestRail
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Automotive
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Military
3 2 (11.11%) Wearables
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst Programmer
3 3 (16.67%) Programmer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Analyst Programmer
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Programmer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) C# WPF Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Silverlight
2 1 (5.56%) WCF
2 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Blog
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) FMCG
2 1 (5.56%) IVR
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Agile
1 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Battery Management
4 2 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) ETL
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C
1 4 (22.22%) Python
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) C++
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) VB
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) R
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) PhD
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) Genesys
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow