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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Agile 40 66 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.78% 23.74% 19.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.16% 26.40% 23.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 48 76
10th Percentile £399 £259 £363
25th Percentile £438 £444 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £570 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +18.75% +12.94%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £588 £663 £703
South Wales median daily rate £514 £583 £525
% change year-on-year -11.88% +11.05% +12.00%

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 159 250 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 70.67% 89.93% 82.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 193 306
10th Percentile £143 £184 £273
25th Percentile £353 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £553 £586 £563
90th Percentile £626 £646 £644
South Wales median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £13.61 - £14.05
25th Percentile £15.48 £13.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £18.57 £16.45 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -17.78% +42.55%
75th Percentile £21.67 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £24.50 £24.55
South Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £18.14 £21.37
% change year-on-year +11.55% -15.11% +1.76%

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 17 June 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 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) GitHub
2 13 (32.50%) Azure
3 12 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (15.00%) AWS
5 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) Internet
2 1 (2.50%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.50%) LAN
2 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) MySQL
2 9 (22.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 8 (20.00%) GitLab
2 8 (20.00%) Postman
3 7 (17.50%) JIRA
3 7 (17.50%) Storybook
4 1 (2.50%) AppScan
4 1 (2.50%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.50%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) Project Manager
3 8 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (17.50%) PHP Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (15.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Migration Manager
6 5 (12.50%) Migration Project Manager
7 4 (10.00%) Analyst
8 3 (7.50%) Agile Project Manager
8 3 (7.50%) React Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Software Manager
8 3 (7.50%) Software Project Manager
9 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
9 2 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (5.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Test Analyst
10 1 (2.50%) Software Development Manager
10 1 (2.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) Vue
2 12 (30.00%) Laravel
3 9 (22.50%) React
4 7 (17.50%) Playwright
5 4 (10.00%) .NET
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (2.50%) ADO
7 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (45.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) NHS
4 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) LIMS
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Project Management
2 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 15 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 12 (30.00%) Scrum
4 10 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (22.50%) Analytics
5 9 (22.50%) Front End Development
6 8 (20.00%) SDLC
7 7 (17.50%) Data Analytics
7 7 (17.50%) Objectives and Key Results
7 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
7 7 (17.50%) Unit Testing
8 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.50%) Migration
10 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
10 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (7.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) PHP
2 7 (17.50%) TypeScript
3 4 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.00%) PMP
3 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Argo
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) Grafana
2 2 (5.00%) Nagios
2 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Graylog
3 1 (2.50%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Nessus
3 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.50%) Puppet
3 1 (2.50%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Progress
4 1 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) InterSystems
4 1 (2.50%) Meraki
4 1 (2.50%) Planview
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Veracode