SDLC Contracts in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 55 56 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing SDLC 7 21 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.28% 2.10% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 2.40% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 19
10th Percentile £368 £313 £509
25th Percentile £394 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -12.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £519 £534 £750
90th Percentile £553 £546 £775
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
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 West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Leeds -5 6 £450 -10.00% 34
Bradford +4 1 - - 19
SDLC
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) npm
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) webpack
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Angular Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Flutter Developer
3 1 (14.29%) GIS Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Manual Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) Flask
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) pytest
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Loose Coupling
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CBAP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ESRI
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow