Developer Contracts in Cardiff

Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Developer daily rate in Cardiff is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 13 60 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 8.13% 28.30% 19.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.44% 30.46% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 50 65
10th Percentile £167 £381 £278
25th Percentile £205 £408 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £548 £586
90th Percentile £588 £563 £657
South Wales median daily rate £393 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -12.78% - -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 154 197 325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 92.92% 96.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 160 259
10th Percentile £184 £199 £185
25th Percentile £257 £377 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +8.89% -
75th Percentile £492 £550 £550
90th Percentile £619 £620 £626
South Wales median daily rate £400 £460 £460
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.32 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.79 £11.75 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.51 £13.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.89% -21.75% -7.99%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.00 £22.34
90th Percentile £38.75 £39.45 £24.38
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -0.79% +25.03% -8.89%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Cardiff

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Cardiff

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Cardiff

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Cardiff

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Degree
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (23.08%) FHIR
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 2 (15.38%) Web Development
5 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (15.38%) Data Science
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) Node.js

Developer Skill Set
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 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Joomla!
1 1 (7.69%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (7.69%) dbt
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (7.69%) Storybook
1 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (7.69%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) FHIR
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) Express.js
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Laravel
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (7.69%) NestJS
4 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
4 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile
1 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
1 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) CRM
3 2 (15.38%) Data Science
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) OO
3 2 (15.38%) OOD
3 2 (15.38%) Web Development
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Data Security
4 1 (7.69%) Pair Programming
4 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
2 1 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Datix
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) RedGate
111 Developer jobs in South Wales