SDLC Contracts in Birmingham

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 58 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -12
Contract jobs citing SDLC 7 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.94% 2.12% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 2.44% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 16
10th Percentile - £263 £391
25th Percentile - £294 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £458 £513
Median % change year-on-year -45.36% -10.73% +20.59%
75th Percentile £656 £500 £561
90th Percentile £773 £576 £614
West Midlands median daily rate £675 £533 £499
% change year-on-year +26.76% +6.71% +10.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 609 778 1,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 81.85% 86.73% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 509 859
10th Percentile £237 £263 £231
25th Percentile £375 £398 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £581 £631 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 31 20
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.00 £12.59
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.71 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% +20.10% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.13 £29.38 £18.18
90th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
% change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +6.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (14.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) COBOL
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Rancher
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Guidewire
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) ICL
2 1 (14.29%) VMware