SDLC Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 18 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 2 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.56% 3.55% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 4.50% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile £525 - £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £380 £331
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% +14.72% -30.26%
75th Percentile £575 - £352
90th Percentile - £426 £354
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £550 £380 £338
% change year-on-year +44.74% +12.59% -28.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 269 111 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 75.99% 78.72% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 61 57
10th Percentile £270 £190 £316
25th Percentile £400 £394 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £550 £575
90th Percentile £666 £690 £605
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £471 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -1.15% -4.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 24 8
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.43 £12.42
25th Percentile £13.51 £16.17 £12.74
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.87 £13.53
Median % change year-on-year - +32.08% -50.80%
75th Percentile £19.03 - £15.03
90th Percentile £19.13 - £15.15
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £17.87 £17.87 £14.17
% change year-on-year - +26.11% -79.76%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Nottingham

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing SDLC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) MassTransit
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (50.00%) CAD
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 1 (50.00%) Presales
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#