SDLC Contracts in South Yorkshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 36 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing SDLC 12 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.22% 1.31% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 1.47% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £435 £535 £515
25th Percentile £462 £564 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +8.70% +5.99%
75th Percentile £546 £638 £613
90th Percentile £555 - £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +12 12 £540 -13.60% 23
SDLC
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) CloudBees
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (8.33%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA Developer
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SDLC Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Business Case
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (16.67%) API Development
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft