Open Source Contracts in Cardiff

Open Source
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Open Source 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.13% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% - 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile £312 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.95%
75th Percentile £446 - -
90th Percentile £466 - -
South Wales median daily rate £331 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Open Source 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 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Cardiff

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Cardiff

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Cardiff

Open Source
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) Blazor
2 2 (40.00%) GWT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) NHS
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Product Management
2 3 (60.00%) Product Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CITP
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft