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 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 122 119 95
Rank change year-on-year -3 -24 -2
Contract jobs citing SDLC 368 494 850
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.79% 2.15% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.40% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 297 583
10th Percentile £312 £393 £369
25th Percentile £400 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +4.48% +11.67%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £692 £663
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +13.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 40
10th Percentile £35.05 £47.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £40.79 £50.00 £44.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £57.38 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +4.32% -5.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.14
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £56.25 £54.78
% change year-on-year -14.67% +2.68% -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 17,183 20,567 27,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.60% 89.35% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,256 14,122 19,102
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £662
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 1,244 1,358
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £12.39
25th Percentile £15.38 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £62.57
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 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 of England +36 99 £469 -10.71% 126
South East +3 95 £575 +11.92% 173
North West +36 72 £463 -9.76% 83
Scotland +12 71 £463 -15.91% 50
South West +12 45 £625 +4.17% 69
Midlands -17 32 £575 +15.00% 87
Yorkshire +4 23 £485 -8.92% 31
West Midlands -14 21 £675 +27.00% 55
East of England -3 18 £400 -23.81% 42
Wales +9 11 £509 -5.35% 13
East Midlands +7 11 £468 +3.89% 31
North East +12 4 - - 13
Isle of Man - 2 - -
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 9 (2.45%) Confluence
2 8 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.63%) Apache Solr
4 5 (1.36%) SAS
5 4 (1.09%) CMS
5 4 (1.09%) nginx
6 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.82%) Drupal
6 3 (0.82%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.54%) Apache
7 2 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
Applications
1 22 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.27%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.90%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.54%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.54%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 105 (28.53%) Azure
2 90 (24.46%) AWS
3 31 (8.42%) Serverless
4 25 (6.79%) GCP
5 22 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 21 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (4.89%) Azure Functions
8 18 (4.89%) Entra ID
8 18 (4.89%) GitHub
9 9 (2.45%) SaaS
10 8 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.90%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.63%) BrowserStack
12 6 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.63%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) DNS
1 7 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.36%) ATM
2 5 (1.36%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (1.36%) iSCSI
3 4 (1.09%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.09%) IPsec
3 4 (1.09%) SAN
4 3 (0.82%) BGP
4 3 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (0.82%) Firewall
4 3 (0.82%) IOS XR
4 3 (0.82%) SSL
5 2 (0.54%) Network Security
5 2 (0.54%) Tactical Data Link
6 1 (0.27%) 4G
6 1 (0.27%) 5G
6 1 (0.27%) RS-422
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.05%) NoSQL
2 23 (6.25%) MySQL
3 18 (4.89%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.72%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.45%) DB2
8 6 (1.63%) Couchbase
8 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.36%) Big Data
10 3 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.82%) CockroachDB
10 3 (0.82%) Metadata
10 3 (0.82%) Power BI
10 3 (0.82%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (11.41%) Git
2 36 (9.78%) JIRA
3 13 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.53%) Selenium
4 11 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.63%) Subversion
5 6 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.36%) JUnit
7 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.82%) TestRail
9 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.54%) kappa
9 2 (0.54%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.54%) Log4j
9 2 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.27%) Postman
10 1 (0.27%) TestCafe
General
1 93 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.75%) Finance
3 42 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.61%) Banking
6 26 (7.07%) Aerospace
7 24 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.17%) Automotive
8 8 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.36%) Marketing
11 5 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.36%) Retail
12 4 (1.09%) Law
12 4 (1.09%) Legal
12 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.54%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 100 (27.17%) Developer
2 46 (12.50%) Analyst
2 46 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 36 (9.78%) Full Stack Developer
4 34 (9.24%) Architect
5 28 (7.61%) Java Developer
6 26 (7.07%) Business Analyst
6 26 (7.07%) Senior
7 21 (5.71%) Azure Developer
8 20 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (4.62%) Project Manager
10 15 (4.08%) Full Stack Engineer
11 13 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.53%) Java Engineer
12 12 (3.26%) Lead
13 10 (2.72%) PLC Software Engineer
13 10 (2.72%) Test Engineer
14 9 (2.45%) Python Engineer
14 9 (2.45%) Senior DevOps
15 8 (2.17%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.04%) React
2 40 (10.87%) Spring
3 33 (8.97%) REST
4 28 (7.61%) Spring Boot
5 27 (7.34%) RESTful
6 25 (6.79%) AngularJS
7 23 (6.25%) HTML
8 22 (5.98%) .NET
9 18 (4.89%) CSS
10 15 (4.08%) JSON
10 15 (4.08%) Kafka
11 14 (3.80%) JPA
12 11 (2.99%) XML
13 9 (2.45%) .NET Framework
13 9 (2.45%) Web Services
14 8 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (2.17%) PySpark
15 7 (1.90%) Middleware
15 7 (1.90%) OpenTracing
16 6 (1.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.16%) Public Cloud
3 13 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.72%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.63%) IoT
8 6 (1.63%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.36%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.36%) Device Driver
9 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.36%) NVMe
10 4 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.09%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.60%) Linux
2 28 (7.61%) Windows
3 20 (5.43%) Unix
4 8 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.63%) Android
5 6 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.36%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.09%) CentOS
7 4 (1.09%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.09%) SafeRTOS
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (54.35%) Agile
2 100 (27.17%) DevOps
3 94 (25.54%) CI/CD
4 90 (24.46%) Software Engineering
5 76 (20.65%) Microservices
6 59 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (15.76%) Full Stack Development
8 57 (15.49%) Scrum
9 51 (13.86%) Test Automation
10 39 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (9.24%) Computer Science
12 28 (7.61%) Change Management
12 28 (7.61%) Operational Stability
13 27 (7.34%) Unit Testing
13 27 (7.34%) Waterfall
14 25 (6.79%) Decision-Making
14 25 (6.79%) Product Backlog
15 24 (6.52%) Migration
15 24 (6.52%) Project Management
15 24 (6.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 94 (25.54%) Java
2 72 (19.57%) Python
3 66 (17.93%) SQL
4 35 (9.51%) JavaScript
5 29 (7.88%) C
6 25 (6.79%) C#
7 24 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.80%) VB
9 13 (3.53%) Kotlin
9 13 (3.53%) PHP
10 12 (3.26%) Scala
10 12 (3.26%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.99%) Bash
11 11 (2.99%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.17%) C++
12 8 (2.17%) PL/SQL
12 8 (2.17%) VBScript
13 6 (1.63%) ABAP
14 5 (1.36%) Perl
15 4 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (18.75%) Degree
2 37 (10.05%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.72%) ISTQB
7 8 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.09%) CBAP
9 4 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.09%) PMP
10 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.82%) HNC
10 3 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.54%) PhD
11 2 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.27%) CCSP
12 1 (0.27%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.14%) QA
2 13 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.45%) NIST
4 8 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.36%) GDPR
6 4 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.82%) HL7
8 2 (0.54%) COBIT
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.27%) MISRA
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (7.07%) Docker
2 20 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.36%) NFS
4 4 (1.09%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 30 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.43%) Terraform
3 18 (4.89%) Ansible
4 9 (2.45%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.17%) Argo
5 8 (2.17%) Grafana
6 7 (1.90%) Zipkin
7 4 (1.09%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (0.82%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.54%) SCOM
10 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.27%) Nmap
10 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
10 1 (0.27%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) SCCM
10 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.25%) SAP
3 19 (5.16%) Oracle
4 16 (4.35%) Google
5 14 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.45%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.90%) IBM
9 4 (1.09%) Adobe
9 4 (1.09%) Brocade
9 4 (1.09%) EMC
9 4 (1.09%) Infragistics
9 4 (1.09%) NetApp
9 4 (1.09%) Sybase
9 4 (1.09%) Veritas
10 3 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.82%) Cisco
10 3 (0.82%) Micro Focus
10 3 (0.82%) Splunk
10 3 (0.82%) TOWER Software