Senior Developer Contracts in Cardiff

Senior Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Cardiff is £615 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 43 49
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 7 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.29% 0.29% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.54% 0.30% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £520 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.71% - -
75th Percentile £618 £438 -
90th Percentile £619 - -
South Wales median daily rate £615 £425 £507
% change year-on-year +44.71% -16.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 198 328 521
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 96.47% 97.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 264 401
10th Percentile £199 £181 £231
25th Percentile £369 £346 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £620 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.71 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £20.92 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.25 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Cardiff

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Cardiff

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Cardiff

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) SQL
1 5 (71.43%) T-SQL
2 4 (57.14%) RedGate
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Product Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) FHIR
4 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Replication
4 1 (14.29%) Clustering
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
4 1 (14.29%) HL7
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Android
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (14.29%) Visualforce
4 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
4 1 (14.29%) Heroku
4 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Mobile App

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (14.29%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) FHIR
1 1 (14.29%) Flutter
1 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Visualforce
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Agile
1 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
1 1 (14.29%) High Availability
1 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile Development
1 1 (14.29%) Product Strategy
1 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
1 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (14.29%) Scrum
1 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
1 5 (71.43%) T-SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
2 1 (14.29%) Dart
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) HL7
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) RedGate
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce