SDLC Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcester requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcester 1.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 - £405
% change year-on-year - - -19.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcester

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 Worcester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 33 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 92.45% 89.19% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 25 21
10th Percentile - £262 £163
25th Percentile £525 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.79% -5.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £700 £613 £650
90th Percentile - £700 £675
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +10.58% -9.57% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £13.75 - £16.09
25th Percentile £14.88 £15.22 £16.38
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.19 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -6.56% -2.10%
75th Percentile £20.88 £17.16 £17.72
90th Percentile £22.45 - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +0.11%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Worcester

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Worcester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing SDLC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware