SDLC Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 70 73 93
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 22 27 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.16% 1.60% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.85% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 23
10th Percentile £355 £313 £503
25th Percentile £438 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £546 £550 £750
90th Percentile £566 £618 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £48.00 £58.50
% change year-on-year +27.60% -17.95% +6.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Yorkshire +14 12 £540 -13.60% 10
West Yorkshire +1 7 £450 -6.25% 25
North Yorkshire - 3 £400 - 7
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (4.55%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) CloudBees
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) npm
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.55%) GIS
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Selenium
3 2 (9.09%) webpack
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) Bugzilla
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (4.55%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Angular Developer
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Designer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Test Automation Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.09%) CSS
2 2 (9.09%) Flask
2 2 (9.09%) HTML
2 2 (9.09%) pytest
2 2 (9.09%) RESTful
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 5 (22.73%) Change Management
4 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Business Case
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
6 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.64%) Microservices
6 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 3 (13.64%) Scrum
6 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.64%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CBAP
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco
1 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
1 1 (4.55%) ESRI
1 1 (4.55%) Google
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
1 1 (4.55%) SAP
1 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
1 1 (4.55%) Workday