Software Engineering Contracts in Cardiff

Software Engineering
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 24 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 8 21 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.79% 6.19% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 7.02% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 16
10th Percentile £413 £485 £444
25th Percentile £426 £570 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £586 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% +9.02% +26.47%
75th Percentile £533 - £813
90th Percentile £545 £651 £831
South Wales median daily rate £626 £586 £550
% change year-on-year +6.74% +6.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +130.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 160 299 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 75.83% 88.20% 81.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 234 326
10th Percentile £188 £201 £260
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.54% +15.63%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £538
90th Percentile £645 £629 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.46% +10.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -12.29% +15.38%
75th Percentile £35.88 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.50 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £21.63
% change year-on-year +25.03% -16.12% +5.36%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Cardiff

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Cardiff

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cardiff over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Cardiff

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Cardiff

Software Engineering
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 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Cypress.io
2 4 (50.00%) Storybook
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Vue
2 4 (50.00%) Playwright
3 2 (25.00%) FHIR
3 2 (25.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) NHS
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (50.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft