Agile Contracts in South Wales

Agile Software Development
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile 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 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 39 60 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 15.98% 17.86% 18.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.89% 22.30% 20.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 51 66
10th Percentile £303 £410 £313
25th Percentile £305 £477 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.54% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £521 £588 £600
90th Percentile £651 £650 £675
Wales median daily rate £446 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -13.40% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £20.65 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £20.88 £15.66 -
Median hourly rate £21.50 £18.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% - -
75th Percentile £21.88 £21.29 -
90th Percentile £21.95 £22.77 -
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.28% -44.18% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Agile 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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 269 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.34% 80.06% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 190 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £630 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £420 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff 0 34 £331 -35.70% 147
Newport +5 5 £525 +10.53% 88
Agile
Wales

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) GCP
3 6 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.56%) dbt
5 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) IaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) PaaS
5 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Selenium
2 4 (10.26%) SpecFlow
3 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Appium
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) NUnit
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.56%) tSQLt
4 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (41.03%) Public Sector
2 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (12.82%) Welsh Language
4 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Digital Health
6 2 (5.13%) Finance
6 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Lead
2 8 (20.51%) Architect
2 8 (20.51%) Designer
3 7 (17.95%) Lead Designer
4 5 (12.82%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (12.82%) Interaction Designer
4 5 (12.82%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Service Designer
6 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Service Designer
7 2 (5.13%) Principal Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Principal Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) CSS
2 3 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (5.13%) Blazor
3 2 (5.13%) FHIR
3 2 (5.13%) GWT
4 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.56%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.56%) Kafka
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.56%) Playwright
4 1 (2.56%) PySpark
4 1 (2.56%) Web Services
4 1 (2.56%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) NHS
2 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 11 (28.21%) Coaching
3 10 (25.64%) Scrum
4 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
6 7 (17.95%) DevOps
7 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
7 6 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
7 6 (15.38%) User Experience
8 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
8 5 (12.82%) Data Privacy
8 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
8 5 (12.82%) DevSecOps
8 5 (12.82%) Interaction Design
8 5 (12.82%) ITIL
8 5 (12.82%) Open Source
8 5 (12.82%) Risk Management
9 4 (10.26%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) C#
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.13%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.56%) Go
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (53.85%) Degree
2 14 (35.90%) Master's Degree
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.26%) CITP
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.56%) ISEB
5 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) HL7
2 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) RedGate
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow