SDLC Contracts in Knutsford

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing SDLC 20 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 10.81% 11.40% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.05% 12.50% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 3
10th Percentile £357 £327 -
25th Percentile £358 £390 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £445 £680
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% -34.56% +87.85%
75th Percentile £403 £469 £682
90th Percentile £537 £619 £683
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £395 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -36.80% +51.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 104 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.84% 91.23% 91.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 96 104
10th Percentile £337 £353 £412
25th Percentile £358 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.92%
75th Percentile £492 £606 £606
90th Percentile £537 £665 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -8.79% -2.20% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Knutsford over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Knutsford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (15.00%) JBoss
1 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (15.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (10.00%) CICS
2 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Appian
3 1 (5.00%) Camunda
3 1 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (25.00%) Serverless
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (10.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) Easytrieve
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) Hudson
5 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (25.00%) Banking
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Java Scrum Master
3 2 (10.00%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Mainframe Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) RESTful
2 6 (30.00%) REST
3 5 (25.00%) Kafka
3 5 (25.00%) Web Services
4 4 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (20.00%) Spring
5 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (15.00%) CSS
5 3 (15.00%) CSS3
5 3 (15.00%) HTML
5 3 (15.00%) HTML5
5 3 (15.00%) JSP
5 3 (15.00%) Servlets
5 3 (15.00%) SOAP
5 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (10.00%) EJB
6 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (10.00%) J2EE
6 2 (10.00%) RAML
6 2 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (10.00%) VSAM
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) zOS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (45.00%) Budget Control
4 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) Scrum
4 7 (35.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (30.00%) Microservices
6 5 (25.00%) Backlog Management
6 5 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 5 (25.00%) Project Planning
7 4 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 4 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
7 4 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
7 4 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
8 3 (15.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) COBOL
4 2 (10.00%) JCL
5 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) TIBCO