SDLC Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 37 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing SDLC 2 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.51% 2.98% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 3.70% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £314
25th Percentile £525 - £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £380 £338
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% +12.59% -28.95%
75th Percentile £575 - £388
90th Percentile - £426 £406
East Midlands median daily rate £508 £375 £419
% change year-on-year +35.33% -10.45% -20.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 295 135 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 75.64% 80.36% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 74 66
10th Percentile £260 £195 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -4.75% -
75th Percentile £545 £621 £575
90th Percentile £649 £839 £606
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £411 £449
% change year-on-year +15.50% -8.41% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 24 10
10th Percentile £12.84 £15.43 £12.61
25th Percentile £13.95 £16.17 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.87 £14.17
Median % change year-on-year - +26.11% -79.76%
75th Percentile £19.03 - £15.21
90th Percentile £19.12 - £64.58
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.30% -12.23% -4.44%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing SDLC

SDLC
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 September 2026. 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
Nottingham -17 2 £550 +44.74% 16
SDLC
East Midlands

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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#