SDLC Contracts in Worcestershire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing SDLC 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 6.12% - 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% - 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £550 - £533
25th Percentile £606 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.29%
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £656 £519
% change year-on-year -26.40% +26.51% +4.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47 58 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 95.92% 78.38% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 46 82
10th Percentile £145 £213 £305
25th Percentile £497 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +35.48%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £626
90th Percentile £888 £634 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £14.09 - £16.78
25th Percentile £15.22 £10.50 £17.13
Median hourly rate £17.16 £11.73 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +46.31% -33.83% +13.01%
75th Percentile £18.13 £48.13 -
90th Percentile £37.29 £72.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -19.42% +18.42% +12.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Worcestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Worcestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Worcestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Malvern - 3 £700 - 1
Worcester - 2 £700 - 1
SDLC
West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet