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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 57 81
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 -3
Contract jobs citing SDLC 9 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.61% 1.94% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.24% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 17
10th Percentile £385 £313 £505
25th Percentile £438 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £600
90th Percentile - £548 £750
Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £493 £550
% change year-on-year +9.64% -10.45% +11.39%
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 514 850 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.95% 87.00% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 496 962
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.76% +7.25%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £619
90th Percentile £600 £662 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.12 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +56.44% +27.00% -40.94%

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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 18 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 18 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 -2 7 £450 -10.00% 26
Bradford +2 1 - - 3
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 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) npm
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 3 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) webpack
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Angular Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) CRM Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) Flask
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) pytest
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Loose Coupling
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Workflow
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) Data Sharing
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Operations Management
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CBAP
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) ESRI
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) SAP