SDLC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 116 98
Rank change year-on-year -5 -18 -10
Contract jobs citing SDLC 376 483 837
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.78% 2.13% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.39% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 293 583
10th Percentile £311 £397 £376
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £563 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -5.46% +3.48% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 26 39
10th Percentile £35.15 £46.50 £35.00
25th Percentile - £50.00 £44.50
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.63 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +1.14% -5.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £67.36 £65.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.73% +0.40% -3.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in the UK excluding London

SDLC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +33 105 £469 -10.71% 87
South East -2 94 £575 +15.00% 61
North West +28 77 £463 -9.76% 60
Scotland +7 68 £450 -18.18% 39
South West +18 50 £613 +7.69% 59
Midlands -14 35 £575 +15.00% 82
Yorkshire -2 23 £485 -8.92% 21
West Midlands -22 19 £675 +25.00% 51
East Midlands +11 16 £456 +1.39% 31
East of England -14 16 £400 -20.00% 23
Wales +18 11 £509 -15.21% 11
North East +13 5 - - 8
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1
SDLC
UK

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (2.66%) Confluence
2 8 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.60%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.60%) CMS
5 4 (1.06%) nginx
6 3 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.80%) Drupal
6 3 (0.80%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.53%) Apache
7 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
Applications
1 21 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.27%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.60%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.06%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.06%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 91 (24.20%) Azure
2 84 (22.34%) AWS
3 28 (7.45%) Serverless
4 26 (6.91%) GCP
5 20 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.32%) GitHub
6 19 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (4.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 17 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (4.26%) Azure Functions
9 15 (3.99%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.39%) SaaS
11 7 (1.86%) BrowserStack
12 6 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.33%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.06%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.86%) DNS
3 5 (1.33%) ATM
4 4 (1.06%) Firewall
4 4 (1.06%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.06%) IPsec
5 3 (0.80%) BGP
5 3 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (0.80%) IOS XR
5 3 (0.80%) SSL
6 2 (0.53%) Network Security
6 2 (0.53%) Tactical Data Link
7 1 (0.27%) 4G
7 1 (0.27%) 5G
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.31%) NoSQL
2 24 (6.38%) MySQL
3 18 (4.79%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.93%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (1.60%) Big Data
8 6 (1.60%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.33%) DB2
10 4 (1.06%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.80%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.80%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.53%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (10.90%) Git
1 41 (10.90%) JIRA
2 14 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 14 (3.72%) Selenium
3 13 (3.46%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.60%) JUnit
4 6 (1.60%) Subversion
4 6 (1.60%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.06%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (1.06%) TestRail
6 3 (0.80%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.80%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.53%) Log4j
7 2 (0.53%) Maven
7 2 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 91 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.62%) Finance
3 43 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.71%) Aerospace
6 27 (7.18%) Banking
7 24 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.39%) Automotive
9 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.60%) Marketing
10 6 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.33%) Retail
12 4 (1.06%) Law
12 4 (1.06%) Legal
12 4 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.53%) Military
14 2 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 102 (27.13%) Developer
2 51 (13.56%) Software Engineer
3 46 (12.23%) Analyst
4 37 (9.84%) Architect
5 30 (7.98%) Full Stack Developer
5 30 (7.98%) Java Developer
6 25 (6.65%) Business Analyst
6 25 (6.65%) Senior
7 24 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.79%) Azure Developer
9 16 (4.26%) Project Manager
10 15 (3.99%) Full Stack Engineer
11 13 (3.46%) PLC Software Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) Lead
13 11 (2.93%) Java Engineer
13 11 (2.93%) Test Engineer
14 10 (2.66%) SAP Developer
15 9 (2.39%) Consultant
15 9 (2.39%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.90%) React
2 36 (9.57%) Spring
3 33 (8.78%) REST
4 29 (7.71%) RESTful
4 29 (7.71%) Spring Boot
5 22 (5.85%) HTML
6 21 (5.59%) .NET
7 20 (5.32%) AngularJS
8 17 (4.52%) CSS
9 15 (3.99%) JSON
9 15 (3.99%) Kafka
10 13 (3.46%) JPA
11 11 (2.93%) XML
12 9 (2.39%) Web Services
13 8 (2.13%) .NET Framework
13 8 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (2.13%) PySpark
14 7 (1.86%) Middleware
14 7 (1.86%) OpenTracing
14 7 (1.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.24%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.79%) Public Cloud
3 14 (3.72%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.93%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.86%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.60%) IoT
8 6 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.33%) Device Driver
10 4 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.06%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.80%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.31%) Linux
2 24 (6.38%) Windows
3 19 (5.05%) Unix
4 6 (1.60%) Android
4 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.06%) CentOS
6 4 (1.06%) SafeRTOS
6 4 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (53.99%) Agile
2 99 (26.33%) Software Engineering
3 96 (25.53%) CI/CD
4 91 (24.20%) DevOps
5 72 (19.15%) Microservices
6 57 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (14.63%) Scrum
8 54 (14.36%) Test Automation
9 50 (13.30%) Full Stack Development
10 38 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (7.98%) Computer Science
11 30 (7.98%) Operational Stability
12 26 (6.91%) Decision-Making
12 26 (6.91%) Waterfall
13 25 (6.65%) Migration
13 25 (6.65%) Roadmaps
14 23 (6.12%) TDD
15 22 (5.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (5.85%) Product Backlog
16 21 (5.59%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 91 (24.20%) Java
2 64 (17.02%) SQL
3 60 (15.96%) Python
4 31 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.91%) C
6 25 (6.65%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.85%) C#
8 15 (3.99%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.46%) Kotlin
9 13 (3.46%) PHP
9 13 (3.46%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.46%) VB
10 12 (3.19%) Bash
10 12 (3.19%) Scala
11 10 (2.66%) ABAP
11 10 (2.66%) C++
11 10 (2.66%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.39%) VBScript
13 4 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.06%) VB6
Qualifications
1 72 (19.15%) Degree
2 31 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.93%) ISTQB
7 9 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (1.06%) CBAP
10 4 (1.06%) HNC
11 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.80%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.80%) PMP
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.53%) PhD
12 2 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.27%) CCSP
13 1 (0.27%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.11%) QA
2 15 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.93%) NIST
4 9 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.60%) GDPR
6 4 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.80%) HL7
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.53%) COBIT
8 2 (0.53%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.53%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.27%) MISRA
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (5.85%) Docker
2 17 (4.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.85%) Terraform
3 18 (4.79%) Ansible
4 9 (2.39%) Grafana
4 9 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.13%) Argo
6 7 (1.86%) Zipkin
7 3 (0.80%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.53%) Kibana
8 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.53%) SCOM
9 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.27%) Nmap
9 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) Rancher
9 1 (0.27%) SCCM
9 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.91%) SAP
3 21 (5.59%) Oracle
4 14 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.46%) Google
6 11 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.39%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.06%) Adobe
8 4 (1.06%) Infragistics
8 4 (1.06%) Micro Focus
9 3 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (0.80%) Cisco
9 3 (0.80%) IBM
9 3 (0.80%) Splunk
9 3 (0.80%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.53%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) Progress
10 2 (0.53%) Sage
10 2 (0.53%) Teradata
10 2 (0.53%) VMware