SDLC Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 11 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.37% 4.04% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 4.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £464 £316 -
25th Percentile £481 £322 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.18% - -
75th Percentile £569 £403 -
90th Percentile £575 £454 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £356 -
% change year-on-year +47.37% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £46.60 - -
25th Percentile £49.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 185 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.57% 93.43% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 93 100
10th Percentile £178 £280 £248
25th Percentile £364 £354 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £579 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £448 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
3 2 (18.18%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) Gatling
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) JMeter
4 1 (9.09%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Java Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) Quarkus
3 2 (18.18%) Playwright
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
4 6 (54.55%) Scrum
5 5 (45.45%) BDD
6 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
6 4 (36.36%) Functional Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 4 (36.36%) Microservices
6 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (36.36%) TDD
6 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
6 4 (36.36%) User Stories
7 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
7 3 (27.27%) Sprint Review
7 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft