SDLC Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 116 109
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing SDLC 84 105 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.77% 1.77% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.94% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 61 123
10th Percentile £158 £413 £360
25th Percentile £352 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +13.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £588
90th Percentile £638 £695 £650
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 1
10th Percentile £31.03 £39.85 -
25th Percentile £43.20 £47.19 £41.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +52.94% -2.30%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile £48.80 - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -23.20% +8.70% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,068 5,410 6,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.90% 91.06% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,518 3,774 4,705
10th Percentile £280 £300 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £556
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 217 268
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.63 £10.65
25th Percentile £12.40 £14.75 £13.09
Median hourly rate £17.50 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% +49.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £44.07 £45.06 £32.97
90th Percentile £52.69 £65.00 £51.99
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
North West +12 54 £463 -11.90% 71
Yorkshire +15 27 £500 -9.09% 30
North East +12 3 - - 7
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (2.38%) Mule
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) SAP PM
1 7 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (1.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) AWS
2 12 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (8.33%) Serverless
4 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.76%) GCP
6 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.57%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.57%) GitHub
6 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.38%) CloudBees
7 2 (2.38%) Datadog
7 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.38%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.95%) MySQL
3 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.38%) Big Data
4 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Git
2 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.76%) JIRA
3 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.57%) GitLab
4 2 (2.38%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.38%) Log4j
4 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.38%) Subversion
4 2 (2.38%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.19%) JUnit
5 1 (1.19%) Pa11y
5 1 (1.19%) Selenium
5 1 (1.19%) TestCafe
5 1 (1.19%) TestNG
5 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.67%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Aerospace
4 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.95%) Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Front Office
7 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Avionics
8 1 (1.19%) French Language
8 1 (1.19%) Games
8 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (20.24%) Software Engineer
2 13 (15.48%) Analyst
3 11 (13.10%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.52%) Author
4 8 (9.52%) Developer
4 8 (9.52%) Lead
4 8 (9.52%) Technical Author
5 6 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
5 6 (7.14%) SAP Business Analyst
6 5 (5.95%) Architect
6 5 (5.95%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.95%) PLC Software Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Scrum Master
7 4 (4.76%) Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Security Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.57%) Environment Manager
8 3 (3.57%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) REST
2 4 (4.76%) React
3 3 (3.57%) Kafka
3 3 (3.57%) RESTful
4 2 (2.38%) .NET
4 2 (2.38%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.38%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.38%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.38%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.38%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.38%) JSON
4 2 (2.38%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) Next.js
4 2 (2.38%) Spring
4 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.38%) Web Services
5 1 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.19%) Jest
5 1 (1.19%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.57%) Client/Server
2 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) CMDB
4 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.19%) Online Gambling
4 1 (1.19%) Online Games
4 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.19%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Unix
2 2 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) Agile
2 23 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (22.62%) DevOps
4 18 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 17 (20.24%) Scrum
6 14 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 11 (13.10%) Computer Science
8 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.71%) Business Analysis
9 9 (10.71%) Test Automation
10 8 (9.52%) Content Strategy
10 8 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (9.52%) Roadmaps
10 8 (9.52%) TDD
10 8 (9.52%) User Stories
11 7 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
11 7 (8.33%) Microservices
11 7 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (7.14%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.05%) Java
2 9 (10.71%) Python
2 9 (10.71%) SQL
3 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.95%) C#
5 3 (3.57%) Bash
5 3 (3.57%) C++
5 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.38%) C
6 2 (2.38%) Go
6 2 (2.38%) Groovy
7 1 (1.19%) ABAP
7 1 (1.19%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.19%) Fortran
7 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Degree
2 11 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) CBAP
4 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.57%) NIST
3 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.57%) QA
4 2 (2.38%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.33%) Terraform
2 5 (5.95%) Ansible
2 5 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.57%) Grafana
4 2 (2.38%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) SAP
2 9 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 7 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.76%) Oracle
5 3 (3.57%) Google
6 2 (2.38%) Databricks
6 2 (2.38%) Splunk
6 2 (2.38%) Teradata
7 1 (1.19%) Sage
7 1 (1.19%) VMware