SDLC Contracts in Manchester

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 73 66 82
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 24 43 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.66% 2.42% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.67% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 56
10th Percentile £444 £393 £323
25th Percentile £475 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £650 £555 £606
90th Percentile £763 £575 £625
North West median daily rate £456 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -10.98% +7.89% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £22.80 - -
25th Percentile £27.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% - -
75th Percentile £41.00 - -
90th Percentile £45.20 - -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 £57.95
% change year-on-year -26.15% +12.17% -13.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,245 1,609 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.34% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,180 1,822
10th Percentile £325 £317 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 56 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.74 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.49 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +34.21% +17.07%
75th Percentile £61.25 £40.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) BrowserStack
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Batch
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
2 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.17%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.17%) Pa11y
2 1 (4.17%) TestCafe
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Automotive
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Billing
4 1 (4.17%) Games
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Software Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Billing Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Games Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Research Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Research Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
1 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (8.33%) React
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Jest
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Next.js
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.17%) Online Gambling
2 1 (4.17%) Online Games
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) BDD
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Scrum
5 3 (12.50%) TDD
6 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.33%) Product Management
6 2 (8.33%) Requirements Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) User Stories
6 2 (8.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) Fortran
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) ISO 22301
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) HP Fortify
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Kibana
4 1 (4.17%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Workday