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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing SDLC 12 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.99% 1.43% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 1.55% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £435 £535 £478
25th Percentile £473 £564 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £610
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +2.46% +3.83%
75th Percentile £546 £638 £638
90th Percentile £555 - £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -13.60% +2.46% +6.09%

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 288 322 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.68% 92.26% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 187 304
10th Percentile £274 £359 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £655
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £452 £550
% change year-on-year +6.59% -17.91% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 3
10th Percentile £16.08 - £11.05
25th Percentile £17.38 £10.90 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.36 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.45 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £13.23 £10.63
% change year-on-year +37.60% +24.46% -33.56%

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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 2 April 2025.

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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) CloudBees
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (8.33%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA Developer
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SDLC Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Business Case
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) API Development
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) Validation
3 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft