Agile Contracts in Cardiff

Agile Software Development
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 34 52 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 21.25% 24.53% 24.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.29% 32.30% 28.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 47 57
10th Percentile £303 £412 £295
25th Percentile £305 £489 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% -6.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £491 £570 £588
90th Percentile £613 £647 £663
South Wales median daily rate £394 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -23.54% -6.36% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Agile 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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Cardiff

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Cardiff

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cardiff

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Cardiff

Agile
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) GCP
3 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.94%) dbt
4 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Selenium
2 4 (11.76%) SpecFlow
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Appium
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) Git
4 1 (2.94%) NUnit
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.94%) tSQLt
4 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (38.24%) Public Sector
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (14.71%) Welsh Language
4 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Digital Health
5 2 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Lead
2 8 (23.53%) Designer
3 7 (20.59%) Architect
3 7 (20.59%) Lead Designer
4 5 (14.71%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (14.71%) Interaction Designer
4 5 (14.71%) Test Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Service Designer
7 2 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Lead Service Designer
7 2 (5.88%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Migration Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Principal Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) .NET
2 3 (8.82%) CSS
2 3 (8.82%) HTML
3 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (5.88%) Blazor
3 2 (5.88%) FHIR
3 2 (5.88%) GWT
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.94%) Node.js
4 1 (2.94%) Playwright
4 1 (2.94%) Web Services
4 1 (2.94%) XML
4 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) NHS
2 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Clustering
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Mentoring
2 11 (32.35%) Coaching
3 10 (29.41%) Scrum
4 8 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
6 6 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.65%) Service Delivery
6 6 (17.65%) User Experience
7 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security
7 5 (14.71%) Data Privacy
7 5 (14.71%) Decision-Making
7 5 (14.71%) DevSecOps
7 5 (14.71%) Interaction Design
7 5 (14.71%) Open Source
7 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
7 5 (14.71%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (11.76%) SDLC
8 4 (11.76%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) C#
2 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.88%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.94%) Go
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (58.82%) Degree
2 14 (41.18%) Master's Degree
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 4 (11.76%) CITP
3 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) ISEB
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) HL7
2 1 (2.94%) WCAG
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.94%) RedGate