SDLC Contracts in the West Midlands

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 75 73
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing SDLC 22 55 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.15% 2.44% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 2.77% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 38 86
10th Percentile £250 £351 £379
25th Percentile £500 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £532 £499
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% +6.51% +10.89%
75th Percentile £731 £598 £539
90th Percentile £850 £738 £588
England median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% +10.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,594 1,983 3,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.24% 88.13% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,346 2,340
10th Percentile £273 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £584
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 50 65
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £13.87 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.69 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +28.92% +5.16%
75th Percentile £41.13 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.13 £21.55
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SDLC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDLC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Warwickshire -5 8 £675 -6.90% 6
Birmingham +5 7 £250 -45.36% 20
Coventry +14 3 £570 +1.33% 9
Staffordshire +10 2 - - 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (18.18%) CMS
2 3 (13.64%) Drupal
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
1 3 (13.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Metadata
2 2 (9.09%) OLAP
2 2 (9.09%) OLTP
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) DB2
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Artifactory
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Selenium
2 3 (13.64%) Subversion
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) kappa
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Multimedia
4 1 (4.55%) Publishing
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Application Development Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Applications Development Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Applications Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Development Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Head of Application Development
3 3 (13.64%) Head of Development
3 3 (13.64%) Test Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Software Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.55%) BREW
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) Dask
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) Keras
2 1 (4.55%) NumPy
2 1 (4.55%) Pandas
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Taxonomies
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) PMI
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) VMS
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
1 8 (36.36%) DevOps
2 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
2 5 (22.73%) Scrum
3 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 4 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (18.18%) Kanban
3 4 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (18.18%) Supplier Management
4 3 (13.64%) Analytics
4 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (13.64%) Data Architecture
4 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
4 3 (13.64%) Manual Testing
4 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
4 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) COBOL
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) R
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) APMG
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) ISEB
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.55%) PhD
2 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) Rancher
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Salesforce
1 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) ICL
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Planview
3 1 (4.55%) Sage
3 1 (4.55%) VMware