Degree Contracts in Cardiff

Academic Degree
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 14 25
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Degree 29 19 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.26% 9.13% 5.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.77% 48.72% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 13
10th Percentile £190 £122 £185
25th Percentile £269 £143 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £503 £430
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +16.86% -12.24%
75th Percentile £472 £523 £549
90th Percentile £512 £526 £600
South Wales median daily rate £305 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -40.68% -1.90% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.64 -
South Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £25.27 £34.30
% change year-on-year +48.40% -26.33% +72.28%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cardiff

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 62 39 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 36.90% 18.75% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 59
10th Percentile £216 £140 £189
25th Percentile £305 £211 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £495 £549
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -9.84% +10.91%
75th Percentile £475 £536 £600
90th Percentile £575 £646 £640
South Wales median daily rate £400 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -22.33% -6.28% +0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.03 £16.22
Median hourly rate £13.08 £11.64 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% -29.22% -26.91%
75th Percentile - £12.25 £16.67
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £25.18 £18.14
% change year-on-year +48.93% +38.81% -60.78%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Cardiff

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Cardiff

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Cardiff over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Cardiff

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Cardiff

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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 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) PaaS
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Metadata
1 3 (10.34%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
1 3 (10.34%) Postman
1 3 (10.34%) Selenium
1 3 (10.34%) SpecFlow
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.45%) tSQLt
2 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (44.83%) Public Sector
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Welsh Language
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Digital Health
6 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Lead
2 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Designer
4 5 (17.24%) Lead Designer
5 4 (13.79%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (13.79%) Interaction Designer
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Business Test Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Test Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Test Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) GCP Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Migration Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Senior
7 2 (6.90%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) CSS
1 4 (13.79%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) JSON
2 3 (10.34%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) SOAP
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (6.90%) Blazor
3 2 (6.90%) GWT
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) FHIR
4 1 (3.45%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (3.45%) Jest
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) Puppeteer
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) NHS
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) Computer Science
3 11 (37.93%) Coaching
3 11 (37.93%) Mentoring
4 9 (31.03%) DevOps
5 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
6 6 (20.69%) Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Scrum
6 6 (20.69%) Test Strategy
7 5 (17.24%) Data Analytics
7 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
8 4 (13.79%) Business Case
8 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 4 (13.79%) Data Privacy
8 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
8 4 (13.79%) Interaction Design
8 4 (13.79%) Open Source
8 4 (13.79%) SDLC
8 4 (13.79%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) C#
2 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) Master's Degree
2 13 (44.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (34.48%) AWS Certification
4 9 (31.03%) Azure Certification
5 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (13.79%) CITP
7 3 (10.34%) ISEB
7 3 (10.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (3.45%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) SEPA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) HL7
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Argo
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Nagios
1 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (31.03%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) Atlassian
3 3 (10.34%) Cloudera
3 3 (10.34%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) RedGate
4 1 (3.45%) Remedy