SDLC Contracts in Northamptonshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 22 21 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing SDLC 4 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.74% 2.04% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.29% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £361 - £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £445 £238
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +87.37% -47.22%
75th Percentile £537 - £244
90th Percentile - - £252
East Midlands median daily rate £515 £445 £425
% change year-on-year +15.73% +4.71% -11.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Northamptonshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -4 4 £456 +2.47% 18
SDLC
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Budget Control
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Contingency Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Project Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) KYC
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce