SDLC Contracts in Shropshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing SDLC 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 2.74% - 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% - 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £272 - -
25th Percentile £302 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 - -
75th Percentile £352 - -
90th Percentile £354 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £675 £533
% change year-on-year -28.44% +26.76% +6.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 138 88 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 94.52% 63.31% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 57 58
10th Percentile £309 £200 £320
25th Percentile £400 £338 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £358 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.49% -33.46% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £552
90th Percentile £547 £519 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.36% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Shropshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Shropshire

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Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Telford - 4 £331 - 3
SDLC
West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) QAD