SDLC Contracts in Leeds

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 49 73
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 +5
Contract jobs citing SDLC 6 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.29% 1.75% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.02% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 17
10th Percentile £368 £414 £505
25th Percentile £394 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £750
90th Percentile £553 £541 £775
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £480 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% -12.73% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) npm
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) webpack
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Angular Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Flutter Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Manual Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) Flask
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) pytest
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Loose Coupling
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow