SDLC Contracts in the South West

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 108 112 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 -33 -5
Contract jobs citing SDLC 42 47 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.33% 1.35% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.51% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 69
10th Percentile £400 £448 £405
25th Percentile £534 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +15.38% +12.43%
75th Percentile £706 £701 £588
90th Percentile - £778 £642
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 12
10th Percentile - £48.78 £51.58
25th Percentile £48.00 £51.19 £54.69
Median hourly rate £51.50 £55.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -20.00% +27.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £65.00 -
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 3,113 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.71% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,274 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £313 £297
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 317 207
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.40 £20.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.76% +10.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.29
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +11 12 £688 +2.61% 13
Dorset +17 9 £400 - 12
Bristol +4 9 £509 -16.98% 22
Somerset +1 5 £450 - 7
Wiltshire +4 4 £613 +26.29% 4
Devon -2 2 £600 +20.00% 4
SDLC
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (11.90%) Apache Solr
2 4 (9.52%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) Azure
3 4 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (4.76%) GitHub
4 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.76%) PaaS
4 2 (4.76%) Serverless
4 2 (4.76%) Slack
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
1 4 (9.52%) HTTPS
1 4 (9.52%) IPsec
1 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.76%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.90%) Couchbase
2 5 (11.90%) MySQL
3 3 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (7.14%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.38%) DataStage
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Power BI
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
1 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) Selenium
3 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.38%) JUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 8 (19.05%) Aerospace
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Legal
4 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Developer
2 10 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.76%) C# Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) IT Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) IT Security Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Security Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) Spring
2 8 (19.05%) React
3 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 6 (14.29%) REST
5 4 (9.52%) JSON
5 4 (9.52%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 4 (9.52%) YAML
6 3 (7.14%) JPA
7 2 (4.76%) CSS
7 2 (4.76%) CSS3
7 2 (4.76%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (4.76%) HTML
7 2 (4.76%) HTML5
7 2 (4.76%) Jest
7 2 (4.76%) Loki
7 2 (4.76%) Node.js
7 2 (4.76%) React Native
8 1 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.38%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.38%) Hackathon
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) CentOS
2 4 (9.52%) SafeRTOS
2 4 (9.52%) Windows
3 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Agile
2 18 (42.86%) DevOps
3 16 (38.10%) Software Engineering
4 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (23.81%) Full Stack Development
7 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (19.05%) OO
8 8 (19.05%) Unit Testing
9 7 (16.67%) Microservices
10 6 (14.29%) Change Management
10 6 (14.29%) Configuration Management
10 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (14.29%) OOP
10 6 (14.29%) Programme Management
10 6 (14.29%) Project Management
10 6 (14.29%) Secure Coding
10 6 (14.29%) Software Architecture
11 5 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (11.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Java
2 11 (26.19%) Python
3 10 (23.81%) C
4 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 6 (14.29%) SQL
6 5 (11.90%) PHP
7 4 (9.52%) C#
8 2 (4.76%) Bash
8 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
8 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.38%) C++
9 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) Degree
4 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) QA
2 6 (14.29%) NIST
3 4 (9.52%) GDPR
3 4 (9.52%) HIPAA
3 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) Terraform
2 6 (14.29%) Ansible
2 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Argo
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Kustomize
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Google
2 1 (2.38%) Databricks
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle
2 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.38%) SAP
2 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow