SDLC Contracts in Northampton

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 22 17 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 7.80% 7.87% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 8.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 0
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile £331 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% - -
75th Percentile £375 £571 -
90th Percentile £500 £599 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £445 -
% change year-on-year -19.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 195 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 96.45% 90.28% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 158 66
10th Percentile £268 £355 £194
25th Percentile £340 £377 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +4.71% -8.60%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £500
90th Percentile £500 £619 £606
Northamptonshire median daily rate £375 £445 £455
% change year-on-year -15.73% -2.29% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.14%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
% change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Northampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Northampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Northampton over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) JBoss
2 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) DB2
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 5 (22.73%) Banking
5 3 (13.64%) Marketing
6 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Analyst
1 8 (36.36%) Business Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Salesforce Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Scrum Master
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Services Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Java Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) REST
2 4 (18.18%) LDAP
3 3 (13.64%) Kafka
3 3 (13.64%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 2 (9.09%) CSS
4 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) J2EE
4 2 (9.09%) SOAP
4 2 (9.09%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) JDBC
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) Middleware
5 1 (4.55%) Web Services
5 1 (4.55%) WSDL
5 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Agile
2 11 (50.00%) Scrum
3 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (31.82%) CRM
4 7 (31.82%) Project Management
5 5 (22.73%) Backlog Management
5 5 (22.73%) Budget Control
5 5 (22.73%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (18.18%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 4 (18.18%) Business Strategy
6 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 4 (18.18%) Digital Identity
6 4 (18.18%) Facial Recognition
6 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (18.18%) KYC
6 4 (18.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Salesforce
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) DocuSign
4 1 (4.55%) Solace