SDLC Contracts in the East of England

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 87 95
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 -26
Contract jobs citing SDLC 16 37 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.85% 1.87% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.12% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 38
10th Percentile £275 £413 £396
25th Percentile £306 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +0.36% +3.08%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £550
90th Percentile £626 £667 £738
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.50 £65.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £65.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.04% -2.96% -6.90%
75th Percentile £36.50 £65.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £52.97 £52.00
% change year-on-year -9.38% +1.87% -7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,600 1,745 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.93% 88.00% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,013 1,299
10th Percentile £204 £205 £193
25th Percentile £325 £325 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 332 378
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -8.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.94 £44.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Hertfordshire -6 6 £300 -40.00% 6
Cambridgeshire -4 5 £550 +12.82% 19
Essex +2 3 £400 -37.72%
Suffolk +13 2 £588 +6.82% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (18.75%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Camtasia
1 1 (6.25%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Automotive
3 2 (12.50%) Electronics
3 2 (12.50%) Military
3 2 (12.50%) Wearables
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Analyst Programmer
4 3 (18.75%) Programmer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Analyst Programmer
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Programmer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) Silverlight
2 1 (6.25%) WCF
2 1 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Blog
2 1 (6.25%) FMCG
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) IVR
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
3 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) Battery Management
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Business Process Mapping
5 1 (6.25%) Content Development
5 1 (6.25%) Defect Management
5 1 (6.25%) Infographics
5 1 (6.25%) Microservices
5 1 (6.25%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C
2 3 (18.75%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C++
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) VB
4 1 (6.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PhD
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Genesys
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow