Agile Contracts in Cardiff

Agile Software Development
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile 52 86 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 24.41% 25.60% 19.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 32.10% 29.15% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 59 81
10th Percentile £412 £304 £363
25th Percentile £489 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £570 £587 £575
90th Percentile £647 £663 £675
South Wales median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Agile 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 162 295 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 76.06% 87.80% 81.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 234 327
10th Percentile £190 £201 £257
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -1.62% +15.63%
75th Percentile £553 £574 £538
90th Percentile £644 £629 £643
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% +8.61%
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 £23.75
% change year-on-year +25.03% -23.62% +15.85%

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 27 April 2024.

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 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (44.23%) Azure
2 22 (42.31%) GitHub
3 14 (26.92%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (13.46%) AWS
5 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.92%) GCP
8 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Firewall
1 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (36.54%) MySQL
2 10 (19.23%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
3 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 10 (19.23%) JIRA
3 8 (15.38%) GitLab
3 8 (15.38%) Postman
4 5 (9.62%) Storybook
5 1 (1.92%) AppScan
5 1 (1.92%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.92%) Git
5 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.92%) Subversion
5 1 (1.92%) tSQLt
General
1 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Project Manager
2 15 (28.85%) Developer
3 9 (17.31%) Migration Manager
3 9 (17.31%) Migration Project Manager
4 8 (15.38%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (13.46%) PHP Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Agile Project Manager
7 5 (9.62%) Analyst
7 5 (9.62%) Software Project Manager
8 4 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (5.77%) Business Analyst
9 3 (5.77%) Development Manager
9 3 (5.77%) Development Project Manager
9 3 (5.77%) React Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Software Development Manager
9 3 (5.77%) Software Development Project Manager
9 3 (5.77%) Software Manager
10 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) Vue
2 10 (19.23%) Laravel
3 9 (17.31%) React
4 5 (9.62%) Playwright
5 4 (7.69%) .NET
6 2 (3.85%) CSS
6 2 (3.85%) HTML
6 2 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.92%) ADO
7 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.92%) FHIR
7 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (36.54%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) NHS
3 3 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Clustering
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) LIMS
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Project Management
2 23 (44.23%) Scrum
3 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 15 (28.85%) SDLC
5 13 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (19.23%) Containerisation
7 10 (19.23%) Full Stack Development
7 10 (19.23%) Migration
8 9 (17.31%) Analytics
8 9 (17.31%) DevOps
8 9 (17.31%) Project Governance
9 8 (15.38%) Project Delivery
10 7 (13.46%) Front End Development
11 6 (11.54%) Data Analytics
11 6 (11.54%) Kalman Filter
11 6 (11.54%) Kanban
11 6 (11.54%) Unit Testing
12 5 (9.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) PHP
2 6 (11.54%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.85%) C#
4 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) Python
5 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.85%) PMP
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.85%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Argo
2 6 (11.54%) Terraform
3 3 (5.77%) Ansible
3 3 (5.77%) Grafana
3 3 (5.77%) Nagios
4 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.92%) Graylog
5 1 (1.92%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) Nessus
5 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.92%) Puppet
5 1 (1.92%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.85%) Atlassian
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco
4 2 (3.85%) Progress
5 1 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.92%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.92%) EMC
5 1 (1.92%) InterSystems
5 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.92%) Planview
5 1 (1.92%) RedGate
5 1 (1.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.92%) Veracode
5 1 (1.92%) Zscaler