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

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 49 47
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing SDLC 12 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.73% 1.36% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 1.47% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £435 £535 £523
25th Percentile £462 £564 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £546 £638 £644
90th Percentile £555 - £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -13.60% - +15.21%

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 308 340 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.65% 92.14% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 198 293
10th Percentile £287 £371 £363
25th Percentile £388 £418 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £470 £550
% change year-on-year +1.06% -14.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

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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 25 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 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) CloudBees
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
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%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (8.33%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
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
3 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
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%) 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%) Software Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (16.67%) API Development
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
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 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft