Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Onboarding
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.44% 0.84% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.38% 2.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £254 - -
25th Percentile £349 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
South Wales median daily rate £359 - £413
% change year-on-year - - +32.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.08 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £13.08 - -

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 94 85 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 38.21% 35.86% 36.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 58 65
10th Percentile £194 £161 £185
25th Percentile £277 £214 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 £425 £390
Median % change year-on-year -21.06% +8.97% -8.24%
75th Percentile £438 £570 £551
90th Percentile £525 £647 £677
South Wales median daily rate £335 £425 £381
% change year-on-year -21.18% +11.48% -15.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile - £22.20 -
25th Percentile - £24.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.08 £25.60 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.91% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £14.22 £26.75 £30.50
90th Percentile £16.28 £27.50 £37.70
South Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £46.75
% change year-on-year -19.92% -45.24% +159.72%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Onboarding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Onboarding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Cardiff

Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Jest
1 2 (33.33%) Next.js
1 2 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Case Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft