SDLC Contracts in the North East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 34 34 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing SDLC 4 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.25% 1.18% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.48% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £331 - £495
25th Percentile £341 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.22%
75th Percentile £431 - £775
90th Percentile £465 - -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear -4 4 £363 - 44
SDLC
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (25.00%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) French Language
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) New Relic
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft