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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 40 32
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing SDLC 5 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 1.03% 2.13% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 2.42% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 18
10th Percentile £490 £563 £511
25th Percentile £550 £638 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +34.88%
75th Percentile £1,106 £850 £738
90th Percentile £1,380 - £788
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +8.91%

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 433 331 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 89.09% 88.27% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 226 237
10th Percentile £304 £375 £316
25th Percentile £400 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £582 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +1.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £725
90th Percentile £700 £788 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 5
10th Percentile £16.13 £13.00 £16.62
25th Percentile £28.18 £13.84 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.46 £14.70 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +175.24% -34.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £33.64 £30.00
90th Percentile - £35.00 £32.70
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.42 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.59% -32.73% +57.14%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 8 August 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 -8 3 £650 -3.70% 4
Stratford-upon-Avon - 1 £450 -
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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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Delivery Director
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Release Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Services Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (20.00%) People Management
2 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce