SDLC Contracts in West Yorkshire

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 80 84
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 -25
Contract jobs citing SDLC 20 24 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.01% 1.48% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.62% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 30
10th Percentile £323 £505 £386
25th Percentile £363 £513 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £453
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +21.55% -9.50%
75th Percentile £525 £750 £531
90th Percentile £538 £775 £711
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -10.45% +15.79% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 875 1,486 1,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.76% 91.56% 91.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 1,021 1,263
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £700 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 44
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.81 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.12 £11.88
Median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year -53.59% +51.52% -20.34%
75th Percentile £15.24 £63.75 £22.49
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.30
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%

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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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
Leeds +7 12 £500 -9.09% 17
Bradford - 7 £375 - 2
Huddersfield -3 1 £375 -28.57%
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) SAP PM
1 7 (35.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Datadog
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) TestNG
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) SAP Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) SAP Business Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Environment Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) JSON
1 2 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) pytest
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (50.00%) DevOps
4 8 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 8 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (40.00%) Scrum
4 8 (40.00%) Waterfall
5 7 (35.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (35.00%) User Stories
6 3 (15.00%) CRM
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) OO
7 2 (10.00%) OOP
7 2 (10.00%) Project Management
7 2 (10.00%) SOA
7 2 (10.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) ABAP
3 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) CBAP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow