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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 5 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.98% 3.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 3.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £494 - -
25th Percentile £514 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% - -
75th Percentile £575 £338 -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 £325 -
% change year-on-year +69.23% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 - -

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 226 157 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.68% 91.81% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 65 96
10th Percentile £170 £318 £284
25th Percentile £378 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £692 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 7
10th Percentile £13.83 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +14.71%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £34.46 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +39.29%

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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Gatling
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Java Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (20.00%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) User Stories
4 2 (40.00%) API Design
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat