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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 79 84
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing SDLC 23 25 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.20% 1.50% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.74% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 23
10th Percentile £360 £313 £503
25th Percentile £450 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -10.45% +11.39%
75th Percentile £550 £552 £625
90th Percentile £574 £621 £750
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +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 £51.25 £48.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +6.77% -13.71% +3.61%

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 962 1,435 2,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.06% 86.08% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 860 1,338
10th Percentile £259 £275 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +8.25%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 66 63
10th Percentile £14.39 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -40.94%
75th Percentile £22.14 £22.00 £20.97
90th Percentile £34.27 £53.75 £55.23
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

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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 17 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 17 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 +13 11 £540 -13.60% 10
West Yorkshire 0 9 £550 +15.79% 31
North Yorkshire - 3 £400 - 6
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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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (4.35%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) npm
5 2 (8.70%) CloudBees
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.35%) GIS
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) JIRA
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
4 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 3 (13.04%) webpack
5 2 (8.70%) Selenium
6 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.35%) Bugzilla
6 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.35%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Angular Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (4.35%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.04%) CSS
2 3 (13.04%) Flask
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) pytest
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) Web Services
3 2 (8.70%) SOAP
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) CMDB
1 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Change Management
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Business Case
5 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Code Quality
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.04%) ITSM
6 3 (13.04%) Loose Coupling
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.04%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (13.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) ESRI
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) Workday