SDLC Contracts in Sheffield

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 41 42
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing SDLC 8 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.06% 2.57% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.67% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 22
10th Percentile £244 £450 £410
25th Percentile £320 £525 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% -0.74% +19.70%
75th Percentile £470 - £610
90th Percentile £514 £1,365 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £394 £600 £604
% change year-on-year -34.38% -0.66% +19.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

SDLC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 337 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 89.69% 96.29% 94.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 215 369
10th Percentile £240 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +17.78%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £614
90th Percentile £652 £739 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -5.45% +7.32% +18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £13.14 £18.80 £9.84
25th Percentile £15.22 £19.25 £11.44
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.21% +17.86%
75th Percentile £21.50 £25.63 £19.50
90th Percentile - £29.00 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.83 £23.75 £14.75
% change year-on-year -45.98% +61.02% +5.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Katalon Studio
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Salesforce Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) Dask
1 1 (12.50%) Django
1 1 (12.50%) Flask
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) NLTK
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) Pyramid
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
1 1 (12.50%) SciPy
1 1 (12.50%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Release Management
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce