SDLC Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 79 89 100
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -32
Contract jobs citing SDLC 25 34 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.51% 1.52% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.67% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 33
10th Percentile £313 £503 £386
25th Percentile £363 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £552 £625 £623
90th Percentile £621 £750 £882
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
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
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,425 2,034 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.84% 90.93% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,335 1,779
10th Percentile £275 £275 £260
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 83
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.64
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.22
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.97 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.45
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire +19 19 £475 -9.52% 21
South Yorkshire -6 6 £625 +4.17% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) SAP PM
1 7 (28.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
1 5 (20.00%) GCP
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) CloudBees
4 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.00%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Datadog
5 1 (4.00%) Intacct
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) JUnit
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
2 1 (4.00%) Subversion
2 1 (4.00%) TestNG
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
1 8 (32.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) SAP Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) SAP Business Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Automation Tester
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Tester
5 2 (8.00%) Agile Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Environment Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) ERP Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Project Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) JSON
1 2 (8.00%) Playwright
1 2 (8.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) pytest
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (4.00%) CMDB
1 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (32.00%) Business Analysis
3 8 (32.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (32.00%) Scrum
3 8 (32.00%) Waterfall
4 7 (28.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (28.00%) User Stories
5 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (24.00%) CRM
6 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Migration
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
9 2 (8.00%) Auto-Scaling
9 2 (8.00%) Coaching
9 2 (8.00%) Data Engineering
9 2 (8.00%) ETL Development
9 2 (8.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Java
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) C
3 2 (8.00%) Groovy
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.00%) ABAP
4 1 (4.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) CBAP
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) SAP
2 5 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Sage
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow