SDLC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 111 94
Rank change year-on-year -24 -17 -3
Contract jobs citing SDLC 345 558 867
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 2.34% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.61% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 333 616
10th Percentile £300 £390 £375
25th Percentile £413 £446 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £699 £663
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 40 42
10th Percentile £32.73 £46.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.20 £50.00 £45.31
Median hourly rate £48.00 £58.77 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.32% +4.47% +2.27%
75th Percentile £52.75 £65.00 £67.80
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £58.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.95% +6.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

SDLC is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
North of England +23 94 £475 -9.52% 98
South East -15 79 £590 +15.12% 81
Scotland +4 66 £500 -6.98% 46
North West +13 63 £450 -13.25% 56
South West +12 40 £625 +4.17% 56
Midlands -38 28 £573 +13.03% 79
Yorkshire +15 27 £500 -8.26% 32
West Midlands -32 24 £675 +25.46% 46
East of England -8 20 £550 +4.76% 36
Wales +15 19 £515 +8.42% 14
North East +14 4 - - 10
East Midlands 0 4 £445 -1.11% 33
Isle of Man - 2 - -
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (2.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.32%) Confluence
3 7 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.03%) SAS
4 6 (1.74%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.16%) CMS
5 4 (1.16%) nginx
6 3 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.87%) Apache
6 3 (0.87%) Drupal
6 3 (0.87%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.58%) Mule
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 30 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.03%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 95 (27.54%) Azure
2 84 (24.35%) AWS
3 29 (8.41%) Serverless
4 22 (6.38%) GitHub
5 21 (6.09%) GCP
6 17 (4.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 17 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (4.35%) Entra ID
8 13 (3.77%) Azure Functions
9 11 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.61%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.61%) SaaS
11 6 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.45%) BrowserStack
12 5 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.61%) DNS
2 8 (2.32%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.03%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (2.03%) iSCSI
4 5 (1.45%) ATM
5 4 (1.16%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.16%) IPsec
5 4 (1.16%) SAN
6 3 (0.87%) BGP
6 3 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.87%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.87%) SNA
6 3 (0.87%) SSL
6 3 (0.87%) VSAN
7 2 (0.58%) Tactical Data Link
8 1 (0.29%) DHCP
8 1 (0.29%) Network Security
8 1 (0.29%) RS-422
8 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.28%) NoSQL
2 23 (6.67%) MySQL
3 18 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 13 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.90%) DB2
6 7 (2.03%) Big Data
6 7 (2.03%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.74%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.16%) Power BI
9 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.87%) CockroachDB
10 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.58%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.58%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 35 (10.14%) Git
2 34 (9.86%) JIRA
3 15 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.61%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.32%) Selenium
5 8 (2.32%) Subversion
6 5 (1.45%) JUnit
7 4 (1.16%) Maven
8 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.87%) GitLab
8 3 (0.87%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.87%) TestRail
9 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.58%) kappa
9 2 (0.58%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.58%) Log4j
9 2 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.81%) Finance
3 32 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.41%) Banking
5 27 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.38%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.32%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.74%) Automotive
9 6 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.45%) Retail
11 4 (1.16%) Legal
11 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Law
12 3 (0.87%) Marketing
12 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.58%) Electronics
13 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (22.90%) Developer
2 40 (11.59%) Analyst
2 40 (11.59%) Software Engineer
3 31 (8.99%) Full Stack Developer
4 29 (8.41%) Architect
5 26 (7.54%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.96%) Project Manager
7 23 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 23 (6.67%) Lead
8 22 (6.38%) Senior
9 17 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.64%) Azure Developer
11 14 (4.06%) Full Stack Engineer
12 13 (3.77%) Java Engineer
13 11 (3.19%) Migration Manager
13 11 (3.19%) Migration Project Manager
14 9 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.61%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.32%) Consultant
15 8 (2.32%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.59%) React
2 39 (11.30%) Spring
3 30 (8.70%) REST
4 26 (7.54%) AngularJS
4 26 (7.54%) Spring Boot
5 23 (6.67%) RESTful
6 20 (5.80%) HTML
7 15 (4.35%) .NET
7 15 (4.35%) CSS
7 15 (4.35%) JSON
8 14 (4.06%) JPA
8 14 (4.06%) Kafka
9 8 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.32%) Middleware
9 8 (2.32%) PySpark
9 8 (2.32%) Web Services
10 7 (2.03%) Flash
10 7 (2.03%) POSIX
10 7 (2.03%) XML
10 7 (2.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.86%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.22%) Public Cloud
3 14 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.03%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.03%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.45%) Device Driver
9 5 (1.45%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.45%) NVMe
9 5 (1.45%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.16%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.86%) Linux
2 22 (6.38%) Windows
3 12 (3.48%) Unix
4 9 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.16%) Android
7 4 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.16%) CentOS
7 4 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.16%) SafeRTOS
8 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (55.07%) Agile
2 87 (25.22%) DevOps
3 85 (24.64%) CI/CD
4 82 (23.77%) Software Engineering
5 68 (19.71%) Microservices
6 67 (19.42%) Scrum
7 58 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (15.36%) Full Stack Development
9 38 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (11.01%) Test Automation
10 36 (10.43%) Project Management
11 28 (8.12%) Waterfall
12 27 (7.83%) Computer Science
12 27 (7.83%) Roadmaps
13 26 (7.54%) Operational Stability
14 25 (7.25%) Change Management
14 25 (7.25%) Decision-Making
14 25 (7.25%) Unit Testing
15 24 (6.96%) Migration
15 24 (6.96%) OO
Programming Languages
1 87 (25.22%) Java
2 70 (20.29%) Python
3 54 (15.65%) SQL
4 30 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 26 (7.54%) C
6 23 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.80%) C#
8 18 (5.22%) PHP
9 12 (3.48%) Kotlin
9 12 (3.48%) Scala
10 11 (3.19%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.61%) Bash
12 8 (2.32%) VB
13 6 (1.74%) C++
13 6 (1.74%) Perl
14 5 (1.45%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.45%) VBScript
15 4 (1.16%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.58%) Go
16 2 (0.58%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 68 (19.71%) Degree
2 38 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.32%) ISTQB
7 7 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.16%) CBAP
9 4 (1.16%) PMP
10 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.58%) HNC
11 2 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.29%) APMG
12 1 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.29%) ISEB
12 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.86%) QA
2 12 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.61%) NIST
4 7 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.16%) GDPR
5 4 (1.16%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) HL7
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.58%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) COBIT
8 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) SEPA
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (5.51%) Docker
2 15 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.03%) NFS
4 4 (1.16%) GPFS
5 3 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.87%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.29%) HDFS
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 23 (6.67%) Terraform
2 20 (5.80%) Ansible
3 11 (3.19%) Argo
4 6 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.74%) Zipkin
5 5 (1.45%) Grafana
6 4 (1.16%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 3 (0.87%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.87%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.87%) vRealize
8 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 2 (0.58%) SCOM
9 1 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.29%) Nmap
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) SCCM
9 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.64%) Atlassian
2 16 (4.64%) SAP
3 14 (4.06%) ServiceNow
4 13 (3.77%) Google
5 12 (3.48%) Oracle
6 10 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.03%) IBM
8 6 (1.74%) VMware
9 5 (1.45%) Sybase
10 4 (1.16%) Adobe
10 4 (1.16%) Brocade
10 4 (1.16%) EMC
10 4 (1.16%) NetApp
10 4 (1.16%) Veritas
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco
11 3 (0.87%) Databricks
11 3 (0.87%) Splunk
11 3 (0.87%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.58%) Teradata