SDLC Contracts in the Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 102 67 60
Rank change year-on-year -35 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing SDLC 35 93 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.30% 2.82% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 3.20% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 69 135
10th Percentile £250 £263 £381
25th Percentile £445 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +1.42% +16.00%
75th Percentile £688 £540 £538
90th Percentile £850 £600 £600
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +11.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,205 2,903 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.06% 88.08% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,037 3,263
10th Percentile £235 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 103 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.26 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +26.98% +15.14%
75th Percentile £33.25 £37.66 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.00 £35.00
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -20 24 £656 +28.05% 60
East Midlands +4 11 £468 +3.89% 34
SDLC
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (11.43%) CMS
2 3 (8.57%) Drupal
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP CO
1 2 (5.71%) SAP FI
1 2 (5.71%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) DB2
3 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.71%) Metadata
4 2 (5.71%) OLAP
4 2 (5.71%) OLTP
5 1 (2.86%) Big Data
5 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Artifactory
3 3 (8.57%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.57%) Selenium
3 3 (8.57%) Subversion
4 2 (5.71%) kappa
4 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Law
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.86%) Publishing
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (14.29%) SAP Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Development Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Application Development Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Applications Development Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Applications Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Head of Application Development
6 3 (8.57%) Head of Development
6 3 (8.57%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Software Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) .NET
2 6 (17.14%) React
3 3 (8.57%) CSS
3 3 (8.57%) HTML
3 3 (8.57%) SAP PI
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
4 2 (5.71%) jQuery
4 2 (5.71%) RESTful
4 2 (5.71%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.86%) Dask
5 1 (2.86%) Keras
5 1 (2.86%) Node.js
5 1 (2.86%) NumPy
5 1 (2.86%) Pandas
5 1 (2.86%) PySpark
5 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.43%) Mainframe
2 4 (11.43%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Android
1 4 (11.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) VMS
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Agile
2 12 (34.29%) DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) Microservices
3 7 (20.00%) Scrum
4 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 5 (14.29%) Kanban
5 5 (14.29%) Project Management
5 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 5 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 4 (11.43%) API Design
6 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
6 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (11.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) ABAP
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) C
3 4 (11.43%) C#
3 4 (11.43%) Python
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) COBOL
5 1 (2.86%) PHP
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) APMG
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.86%) PhD
4 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.86%) Puppet
2 1 (2.86%) Rancher
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) SAP
2 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Sage
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) ICL
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Planview
4 1 (2.86%) VMware