SDLC Contracts in West Yorkshire

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 74 88
Rank change year-on-year +20 +14 -38
Contract jobs citing SDLC 17 26 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.75% 1.71% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.87% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 21
10th Percentile £313 £488 £400
25th Percentile £350 £513 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -6.31%
75th Percentile £518 £581 £540
90th Percentile £525 £750 £925
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £533 £503
% change year-on-year -8.92% +5.97% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 838 1,389 1,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.48% 91.50% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 953 1,230
10th Percentile £300 £350 £285
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.54%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 19 48
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.00 £10.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £14.46 £12.56
Median hourly rate £12.53 £20.00 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year -37.35% +7.53% -19.13%
75th Percentile £15.24 £44.88 £22.40
90th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £27.70
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.25
% change year-on-year +27.00% -41.75% -8.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Leeds +18 11 £500 -4.76% 7
Bradford +9 6 £375 -37.50%
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) SAP PM
1 6 (35.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JUnit
1 1 (5.88%) Selenium
1 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) Business Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) SAP Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) SAP Business Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Automation Tester
2 4 (23.53%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Environment Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Developer
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Playwright
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) pytest
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
1 13 (76.47%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Requirements Gathering
2 7 (41.18%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (35.29%) Business Analysis
3 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
3 6 (35.29%) User Stories
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
5 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) CRM
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) OO
6 2 (11.76%) OOP
7 1 (5.88%) ITSM
7 1 (5.88%) Regression Testing
7 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bash
1 3 (17.65%) C
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.88%) ABAP
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) CBAP
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow