SDLC Contracts in Cardiff

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
South Wales > Cardiff

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 35 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 -3
Contract jobs citing SDLC 16 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.58% 2.65% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 3.00% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 11
10th Percentile £489 £434 £413
25th Percentile £503 £455 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -3.16% -11.63%
75th Percentile £530 £465 £588
90th Percentile £576 £545 £675
South Wales median daily rate £515 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -10.43% +21.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 160 300 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 75.83% 88.24% 81.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 235 326
10th Percentile £188 £201 £260
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.54% +15.63%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £538
90th Percentile £645 £629 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.88 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.50 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £21.63
% change year-on-year +25.03% -16.12% +5.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in Cardiff over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDLC in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) GitHub
2 9 (56.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (43.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Project Manager
2 9 (56.25%) Migration Manager
2 9 (56.25%) Migration Project Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Agile Project Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Software Project Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Development Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Development Project Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Software Development Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Software Development Project Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Agile Development Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Software Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Delivery Project Manager
6 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
6 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
1 15 (93.75%) Scrum
2 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
2 9 (56.25%) Migration
3 7 (43.75%) Project Management
4 6 (37.50%) Kanban
4 6 (37.50%) Project Governance
5 5 (31.25%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
7 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 1 (6.25%) Conflict Resolution
7 1 (6.25%) Defect Management
7 1 (6.25%) DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Health Informatics
7 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
7 1 (6.25%) Test Management
7 1 (6.25%) Test Scripting
7 1 (6.25%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) PHP
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Atlassian
2 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Progress