SDLC Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 61 81
Rank change year-on-year -22 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing SDLC 26 83 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.35% 3.48% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 3.93% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 57 74
10th Percentile £250 £398 £340
25th Percentile £503 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £538 £499
Median % change year-on-year +25.46% +7.82% +14.06%
75th Percentile £745 £540 £540
90th Percentile £850 £600 £593
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Warwickshire -1 10 £713 +23.91% 4
Birmingham -3 10 £250 -39.76% 14
Coventry +11 3 £570 +1.33% 4
Staffordshire +7 1 - - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (15.38%) CMS
2 3 (11.54%) Drupal
3 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
1 3 (11.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Metadata
2 2 (7.69%) OLAP
2 2 (7.69%) OLTP
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Artifactory
1 3 (11.54%) Git
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
1 3 (11.54%) Selenium
1 3 (11.54%) Subversion
2 2 (7.69%) kappa
3 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.85%) Publishing
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Development Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Application Development Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Applications Development Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Applications Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Head of Application Development
3 3 (11.54%) Head of Development
3 3 (11.54%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Scrum Master
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Scrum Master
4 2 (7.69%) Software Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) ADO
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.85%) CSS
3 1 (3.85%) Dask
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) JDBC
3 1 (3.85%) Keras
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) NumPy
3 1 (3.85%) ODBC
3 1 (3.85%) Pandas
3 1 (3.85%) PySpark
3 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
2 3 (11.54%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.69%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) DevOps
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) Scrum
4 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
5 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (19.23%) IT Strategy
7 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 4 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (15.38%) Kanban
7 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
7 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Supplier Management
8 3 (11.54%) Analytics
8 3 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (11.54%) Data Architecture
8 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
8 3 (11.54%) Manual Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) COBOL
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) PHP
4 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) APMG
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) ISEB
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.85%) PhD
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
1 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.85%) Cadence
2 1 (3.85%) IBM
2 1 (3.85%) ICL
2 1 (3.85%) Planview
2 1 (3.85%) Sage