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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 35 40 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 21.08% 19.32% 23.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.88% 25.97% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 36 49
10th Percentile £303 £396 £262
25th Percentile £305 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £514 £565
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% -9.07% +18.95%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £600
90th Percentile £662 £588 £663
South Wales median daily rate £394 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -23.17% -10.87% +9.52%

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 153 154 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 92.17% 74.40% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 126 200
10th Percentile £191 £143 £190
25th Percentile £300 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £586
90th Percentile £650 £629 £639
South Wales median daily rate £400 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -18.37% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile - £12.87 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.54 £13.00
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% +12.92% -15.12%
75th Percentile £23.75 £21.67 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.14
% change year-on-year +11.19% +11.55% -15.11%

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 30 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 (5.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) dbt
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Selenium
2 4 (11.43%) SpecFlow
3 2 (5.71%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.86%) Appium
4 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) NUnit
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.86%) tSQLt
4 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (34.29%) Public Sector
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (14.29%) Welsh Language
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Health
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Lead
2 8 (22.86%) Architect
2 8 (22.86%) Designer
3 7 (20.00%) Lead Designer
4 5 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Interaction Designer
4 5 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Service Designer
6 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Lead Service Designer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Migration Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Principal Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 2 (5.71%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) CSS
2 3 (8.57%) HTML
3 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (5.71%) Blazor
3 2 (5.71%) FHIR
3 2 (5.71%) GWT
3 2 (5.71%) Web Services
3 2 (5.71%) XML
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.86%) Node.js
4 1 (2.86%) Playwright
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
4 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) NHS
2 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) Clustering
4 2 (5.71%) Replication
5 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 11 (31.43%) Coaching
2 11 (31.43%) Scrum
3 8 (22.86%) DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps
5 6 (17.14%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.14%) Service Delivery
5 6 (17.14%) User Experience
6 5 (14.29%) Business Case
6 5 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 5 (14.29%) Data Privacy
6 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 5 (14.29%) Interaction Design
6 5 (14.29%) Open Source
6 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 5 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (11.43%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) C#
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
3 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.86%) Go
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) Degree
2 14 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Azure Certification
3 4 (11.43%) CITP
3 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.71%) HL7
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) WCAG
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Google
3 3 (8.57%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.71%) RedGate