SDLC Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 78 80
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 0
Contract jobs citing SDLC 853 1,494 2,250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.34% 3.08% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 3.42% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 1,014 1,583
10th Percentile £385 £413 £406
25th Percentile £456 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +11.22%
75th Percentile £706 £733 £688
90th Percentile £838 £825 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -4.17% +8.21% +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 37 45
10th Percentile £35.50 £44.84 £20.28
25th Percentile £47.56 £47.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £52.97 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +1.87% -7.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £62.95 £67.92 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £56.25 £54.64
% change year-on-year -14.67% +2.95% -0.65%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in England

SDLC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in England

SDLC
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London -14 542 £600 -7.69% 253
North of England +30 99 £475 -9.52% 121
South East +2 91 £575 +11.65% 122
North West +19 71 £463 -10.84% 74
South West +4 42 £625 +4.17% 65
Midlands -35 35 £575 +15.00% 92
Yorkshire +10 25 £493 -10.45% 34
West Midlands -20 24 £656 +28.05% 59
East of England -10 16 £475 -9.52% 29
East Midlands +4 11 £468 +3.89% 33
North East +9 3 - - 14
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 33 (3.87%) Confluence
2 15 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.41%) Apache
4 10 (1.17%) IIS
4 10 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.94%) Apache Solr
5 8 (0.94%) BizTalk Server
5 8 (0.94%) nginx
6 7 (0.82%) CMS
7 5 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.47%) Drupal
8 4 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (0.35%) Gunicorn
9 3 (0.35%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (1.52%) Endur
2 12 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.82%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.23%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP R/3
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 192 (22.51%) Azure
2 150 (17.58%) AWS
3 72 (8.44%) Serverless
4 44 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (5.16%) GCP
5 40 (4.69%) GitHub
6 35 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (3.87%) SaaS
8 32 (3.75%) Azure Functions
9 30 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 28 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
10 28 (3.28%) PaaS
11 25 (2.93%) Entra ID
12 23 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (2.34%) Power Platform
14 18 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
16 16 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (1.76%) IaaS
17 15 (1.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.06%) DNS
1 9 (1.06%) Firewall
2 8 (0.94%) Internet
3 7 (0.82%) SSH
3 7 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.70%) WAN
5 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.47%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.47%) IPsec
6 4 (0.47%) SSL
7 3 (0.35%) ATM
7 3 (0.35%) BGP
7 3 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.35%) IOS XR
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
7 3 (0.35%) SNA
7 3 (0.35%) VSAN
8 2 (0.23%) AMQP
8 2 (0.23%) Broadband
8 2 (0.23%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.98%) NoSQL
3 43 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 31 (3.63%) Data Lake
5 27 (3.17%) Big Data
5 27 (3.17%) MySQL
6 26 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (2.81%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (1.99%) Oracle Database
11 14 (1.64%) KDB
11 14 (1.64%) Power BI
12 8 (0.94%) Couchbase
13 7 (0.82%) Delta Lake
13 7 (0.82%) Metadata
13 7 (0.82%) Sybase ASE
14 6 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.70%) DB2
15 5 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (10.43%) Git
2 85 (9.96%) JIRA
3 69 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 34 (3.99%) Selenium
5 30 (3.52%) GitLab
6 27 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 25 (2.93%) JUnit
8 15 (1.76%) git-flow
8 15 (1.76%) Maven
8 15 (1.76%) Mockito
8 15 (1.76%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 12 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.17%) JMeter
12 9 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (0.94%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.82%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.82%) Subversion
15 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 251 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 244 (28.60%) Finance
3 138 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (12.78%) Banking
5 50 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.10%) Investment Banking
6 35 (4.10%) Marketing
7 32 (3.75%) Front Office
8 24 (2.81%) Aerospace
9 23 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.23%) Retail
12 18 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.94%) Automotive
15 7 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
15 7 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.82%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 250 (29.31%) Developer
2 144 (16.88%) Senior
3 101 (11.84%) Analyst
4 79 (9.26%) Architect
5 68 (7.97%) Software Engineer
6 57 (6.68%) Java Developer
7 56 (6.57%) Business Analyst
8 50 (5.86%) Full Stack Developer
9 49 (5.74%) Senior Developer
10 47 (5.51%) Lead
11 46 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
12 37 (4.34%) Project Manager
13 31 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.40%) Python Developer
15 28 (3.28%) Data Engineer
16 27 (3.17%) Consultant
17 23 (2.70%) Azure Developer
18 21 (2.46%) Cloud Architect
19 20 (2.34%) Scrum Master
19 20 (2.34%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (10.90%) React
2 84 (9.85%) .NET
3 43 (5.04%) HTML
4 42 (4.92%) REST
5 41 (4.81%) Web Services
6 38 (4.45%) JSON
6 38 (4.45%) Spring
7 36 (4.22%) CSS
7 36 (4.22%) XML
8 35 (4.10%) AngularJS
9 34 (3.99%) Spring Boot
10 33 (3.87%) .NET Framework
11 28 (3.28%) Kafka
12 25 (2.93%) RESTful
13 22 (2.58%) JPA
14 20 (2.34%) .NET Core
14 20 (2.34%) Hibernate
15 19 (2.23%) ASP.NET
15 19 (2.23%) Node.js
15 19 (2.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.68%) Product Ownership
2 37 (4.34%) Mobile App
3 36 (4.22%) Management Information System
4 35 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (3.52%) Cloud Native
7 23 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 23 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 20 (2.34%) IoT
9 18 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.99%) Derivative
11 16 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.64%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.41%) Credit Derivative
13 12 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
14 11 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 82 (9.61%) Linux
2 50 (5.86%) Windows
3 32 (3.75%) Unix
4 23 (2.70%) Android
5 13 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.47%) CentOS
8 4 (0.47%) SafeRTOS
9 2 (0.23%) VMS
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (47.95%) Agile
2 240 (28.14%) DevOps
3 205 (24.03%) CI/CD
4 177 (20.75%) Software Engineering
5 156 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (17.23%) Scrum
7 97 (11.37%) Microservices
8 84 (9.85%) Test Automation
9 79 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (8.68%) Computer Science
11 73 (8.56%) Full Stack Development
12 68 (7.97%) Project Management
13 67 (7.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 62 (7.27%) Analytics
15 55 (6.45%) Change Management
15 55 (6.45%) Migration
15 55 (6.45%) Waterfall
16 54 (6.33%) Continuous Integration
17 53 (6.21%) Roadmaps
17 53 (6.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 207 (24.27%) Java
2 174 (20.40%) SQL
3 171 (20.05%) Python
4 110 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 107 (12.54%) C#
6 63 (7.39%) PowerShell
7 45 (5.28%) TypeScript
8 31 (3.63%) C
9 25 (2.93%) C++
10 23 (2.70%) Go
10 23 (2.70%) T-SQL
11 20 (2.34%) PL/SQL
12 19 (2.23%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.99%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.76%) Bash
15 14 (1.64%) Scala
16 13 (1.52%) Perl
17 10 (1.17%) ABAP
17 10 (1.17%) VB
18 8 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 137 (16.06%) Degree
2 97 (11.37%) Security Cleared
3 71 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 47 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (4.34%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.81%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.11%) PMP
8 17 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.88%) PMI Certification
10 13 (1.52%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.59%) CISM
11 5 (0.59%) CISSP
11 5 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.47%) CBAP
13 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.35%) HNC
13 3 (0.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.50%) QA
2 25 (2.93%) NIST
3 18 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.29%) PMO
7 8 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (0.70%) EMIR
8 6 (0.70%) SEPA
9 5 (0.59%) MiFID
10 4 (0.47%) GDPR
10 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.47%) HL7
10 4 (0.47%) IFRS
11 3 (0.35%) Basel III
12 2 (0.23%) COBIT
12 2 (0.23%) GAAP
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 57 (6.68%) Docker
2 34 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.12%) GridGain
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 82 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 73 (8.56%) Terraform
3 52 (6.10%) Ansible
4 23 (2.70%) Puppet
5 14 (1.64%) Grafana
6 6 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.47%) Kibana
7 4 (0.47%) vRealize
7 4 (0.47%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (0.35%) Argo
8 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.35%) Netcool
8 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.23%) logstash
9 2 (0.23%) Podman
9 2 (0.23%) Rancher
9 2 (0.23%) SCOM
9 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 67 (7.85%) Oracle
3 46 (5.39%) SAP
4 30 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.17%) Databricks
6 23 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.99%) Google
8 16 (1.88%) VMware
9 14 (1.64%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.52%) IBM
11 11 (1.29%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.06%) Adobe
12 9 (1.06%) Refinitiv
13 8 (0.94%) OpenLink
13 8 (0.94%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.82%) Solace
14 7 (0.82%) Sybase
15 6 (0.70%) Splunk
15 6 (0.70%) Teradata
15 6 (0.70%) TIBCO