SDLC Contracts in Warwickshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 38 35 33
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing SDLC 4 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 1.29% 2.96% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 3.24% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile - £509 £506
25th Percentile £763 £663 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £713 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% +23.91% +9.52%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £738
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £580 £675 £538
% change year-on-year -14.15% +25.46% +7.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 278 309 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 89.97% 91.42% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 209 228
10th Percentile £235 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £700 £638
90th Percentile £664 £850 £741
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 31 3
10th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £14.39
25th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £14.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +55.17% -27.50%
75th Percentile £28.18 £26.95 £19.13
90th Percentile £45.33 £35.00 £21.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Warwickshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Warwickshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Warwickshire.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Warwickshire

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Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Warwickshire 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
Warwick -7 2 £775 +14.81% 4
SDLC
West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) TOWER Software
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft