SDLC Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 93 94
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -21
Contract jobs citing SDLC 28 34 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.66% 1.47% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.62% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 40
10th Percentile £313 £503 £386
25th Percentile £363 £513 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +15.79% -4.04%
75th Percentile £547 £750 £596
90th Percentile £615 £775 £733
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £58.50 £54.89
% change year-on-year -17.95% +6.58% -0.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,458 2,094 2,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.43% 90.81% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 1,388 1,763
10th Percentile £263 £296 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 61 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.19 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £27.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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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 29 April 2024.

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 29 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
West Yorkshire +28 22 £475 -13.64% 21
South Yorkshire +1 6 £625 +8.70% 2
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England

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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 2 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (25.00%) SAP PM
1 7 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) CloudBees
4 2 (7.14%) Datadog
4 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Intacct
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) Subversion
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) JUnit
2 1 (3.57%) Selenium
2 1 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Analyst
1 9 (32.14%) Business Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) SAP Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) SAP Business Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Automation Tester
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Environment Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Agile Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) ERP Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) ERP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) JSON
1 2 (7.14%) Playwright
1 2 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) pytest
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.57%) CMDB
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Agile
2 15 (53.57%) DevOps
2 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (32.14%) Business Analysis
3 9 (32.14%) Waterfall
4 8 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (28.57%) Scrum
5 7 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (25.00%) User Stories
6 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 6 (21.43%) CRM
7 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
9 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
9 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
9 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
10 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps
10 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) Bash
3 2 (7.14%) C
3 2 (7.14%) Groovy
3 2 (7.14%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.57%) ABAP
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) CBAP
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) SAP
2 5 (17.86%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Sage
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow