SDLC Contracts in the North of England

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 118 119
Rank change year-on-year +36 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing SDLC 99 100 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.12% 1.78% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 1.97% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 70 105
10th Percentile £158 £413 £335
25th Percentile £369 £477 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £649 £680 £625
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £29.20 £51.10 -
25th Percentile £40.79 £57.63 -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £63.75 £57.95
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% +10.01% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £53.99 £52.59
% change year-on-year -11.09% +2.65% -8.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,962 5,077 6,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.71% 90.35% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,413 3,480 4,628
10th Percentile £300 £300 £238
25th Percentile £400 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 204 259
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.53 £15.74 £13.57
Median hourly rate £18.11 £28.34 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.10% +49.16% +6.92%
75th Percentile £45.88 £44.50 £33.83
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.46% +49.68% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SDLC in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SDLC in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
North West +36 72 £463 -9.76% 83
Yorkshire +4 23 £485 -8.92% 31
North East +12 4 - - 13
SDLC
England

SDLC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (2.02%) Apache
1 2 (2.02%) Mule
2 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.07%) SAP PM
1 7 (7.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.01%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.25%) AWS
2 17 (17.17%) Azure
3 10 (10.10%) Serverless
4 8 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (8.08%) GitHub
5 7 (7.07%) GCP
6 6 (6.06%) BrowserStack
6 6 (6.06%) SaaS
7 4 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.02%) CloudBees
9 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) MongoDB
1 10 (10.10%) MySQL
2 9 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.03%) DB2
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.02%) Big Data
6 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Cypress.io
2 5 (5.05%) Git
2 5 (5.05%) JIRA
3 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.02%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.02%) Log4j
4 2 (2.02%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.01%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.01%) GitLab
5 1 (1.01%) JUnit
5 1 (1.01%) Pa11y
5 1 (1.01%) Selenium
5 1 (1.01%) TestCafe
5 1 (1.01%) TestNG
5 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Finance
3 14 (14.14%) Aerospace
4 11 (11.11%) Banking
5 10 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.03%) Automotive
9 2 (2.02%) Front Office
9 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.02%) Retail
10 1 (1.01%) Billing
10 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.01%) Games
10 1 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (25.25%) Software Engineer
2 14 (14.14%) Analyst
2 14 (14.14%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.11%) Architect
4 10 (10.10%) Developer
4 10 (10.10%) PLC Software Engineer
5 9 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (8.08%) Author
6 8 (8.08%) Technical Author
7 7 (7.07%) Lead
8 6 (6.06%) SAP Analyst
8 6 (6.06%) SAP Business Analyst
9 5 (5.05%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Scrum Master
10 4 (4.04%) Tester
11 3 (3.03%) Consultant
11 3 (3.03%) Project Manager
11 3 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.12%) React
2 6 (6.06%) REST
2 6 (6.06%) RESTful
3 5 (5.05%) .NET
3 5 (5.05%) Next.js
4 3 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.03%) Kafka
4 3 (3.03%) Node.js
4 3 (3.03%) Spring
4 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.02%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.02%) CSS
5 2 (2.02%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.02%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.02%) HTML
5 2 (2.02%) jQuery
5 2 (2.02%) JSON
5 2 (2.02%) Middleware
5 2 (2.02%) Web Services
5 2 (2.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (3.03%) Mainframe
1 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
1 3 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
2 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.01%) CMDB
3 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.01%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.01%) Online Gambling
3 1 (1.01%) Online Games
3 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.01%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Linux
2 5 (5.05%) Android
2 5 (5.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (49.49%) Agile
2 28 (28.28%) Software Engineering
3 24 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (18.18%) DevOps
4 18 (18.18%) Scrum
5 16 (16.16%) CI/CD
6 15 (15.15%) Waterfall
7 14 (14.14%) Microservices
8 12 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 11 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (11.11%) TDD
10 9 (9.09%) BDD
10 9 (9.09%) Business Analysis
10 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (9.09%) User Stories
11 8 (8.08%) Content Strategy
11 8 (8.08%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.07%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.21%) Java
2 15 (15.15%) SQL
3 13 (13.13%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.12%) Python
5 8 (8.08%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.07%) C
6 7 (7.07%) C#
7 5 (5.05%) Bash
8 2 (2.02%) C++
8 2 (2.02%) Go
8 2 (2.02%) Groovy
9 1 (1.01%) ABAP
9 1 (1.01%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.01%) Fortran
9 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (21.21%) Degree
2 11 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.07%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) CBAP
4 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.02%) PMP
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.03%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.02%) NIST
4 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.01%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (5.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.07%) Terraform
2 6 (6.06%) Grafana
3 5 (5.05%) Ansible
3 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.03%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.01%) Kibana
5 1 (1.01%) Nmap
Vendors
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.09%) SAP
2 9 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.07%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.05%) Google
5 2 (2.02%) Databricks
5 2 (2.02%) Splunk
5 2 (2.02%) Teradata
6 1 (1.01%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.01%) Sage
6 1 (1.01%) VMware
6 1 (1.01%) Workday