SDLC Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 87 91
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 58 72 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.08% 2.23% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.45% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 43 81
10th Percentile £158 £413 £306
25th Percentile £311 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +24.59%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £595
90th Percentile £643 £693 £663
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £31.03 £39.55 -
25th Percentile £43.20 £41.88 £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 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% +11.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,404 2,934 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.35% 91.06% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 2,091 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.27 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £55.75 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Cheshire +19 24 £364 -41.84% 16
Manchester -11 19 £550 +4.76% 46
Cumbria - 7 - - 2
Lancashire -1 4 - - 12
Merseyside +17 2 £450 +5.88% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.45%) Mule
Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (10.34%) Serverless
3 5 (8.62%) Azure
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.45%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Batch
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.72%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
1 4 (6.90%) MySQL
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.45%) Big Data
3 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.45%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.45%) Log4j
3 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.72%) GitLab
4 1 (1.72%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.72%) TestCafe
4 1 (1.72%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Aerospace
3 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Finance
4 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.34%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Front Office
6 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Avionics
7 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Games
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Software Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Author
2 8 (13.79%) Technical Author
3 6 (10.34%) PLC Software Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Developer
4 5 (8.62%) Scrum Master
5 4 (6.90%) Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Security Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Senior
6 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) Principal Security Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) Site Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) REST
2 3 (5.17%) Kafka
2 3 (5.17%) React
3 2 (3.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
3 2 (3.45%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.45%) Middleware
3 2 (3.45%) Spring
3 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.45%) Web Services
4 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.72%) Jest
4 1 (1.72%) Next.js
4 1 (1.72%) Node.js
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.72%) Online Gambling
4 1 (1.72%) Online Games
4 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Agile
2 18 (31.03%) Software Engineering
3 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.52%) Computer Science
4 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
4 9 (15.52%) Scrum
5 8 (13.79%) Content Strategy
6 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
7 5 (8.62%) Agile Coaching
7 5 (8.62%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.62%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (8.62%) Microservices
7 5 (8.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (8.62%) TDD
7 5 (8.62%) Test Automation
8 4 (6.90%) DevOps
8 4 (6.90%) E-Commerce
8 4 (6.90%) Information Security
8 4 (6.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) Java
2 6 (10.34%) SQL
3 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.90%) C#
4 4 (6.90%) Python
5 3 (5.17%) Bash
5 3 (5.17%) C++
6 2 (3.45%) C
6 2 (3.45%) Go
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.72%) Fortran
7 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Degree
2 9 (15.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (5.17%) NIST
2 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.45%) ISO 22301
3 2 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Grafana
3 2 (3.45%) HP Fortify
3 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) ServiceNow
3 7 (12.07%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
4 2 (3.45%) Teradata
5 1 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) VMware