Software Developer Contracts in Cardiff

Software Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Software Developer daily rate in Cardiff is £615 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 36 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 6 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.80% 2.35% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 2.44% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £202 £254
25th Percentile - £208 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £538 £404
Median % change year-on-year +14.42% +33.13% +130.71%
75th Percentile - £666 £463
90th Percentile - £675 £541
South Wales median daily rate £615 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +36.67% -2.07% +162.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 199 328 522
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 96.47% 97.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 264 402
10th Percentile £199 £181 £232
25th Percentile £372 £346 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £537
90th Percentile £620 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.71 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £20.92 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.25 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Cardiff

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in Cardiff

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in Cardiff

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Software Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) RedGate
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (16.67%) tSQLt
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) FHIR
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) HL7
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing

Software Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (16.67%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) FHIR
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Educational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
1 1 (16.67%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Agile
1 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
1 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (16.67%) High Availability
1 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
1 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Scrum
1 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) RedGate
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft