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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Agile 56 64 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 21.37% 18.29% 9.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.93% 23.02% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 48 32
10th Percentile £303 £243 £318
25th Percentile £305 £380 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.37% -8.64% -
75th Percentile £488 £545 £600
90th Percentile £535 £581 £638
Wales median daily rate £436 £503 £538
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.51% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
Wales median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +32.95% -32.31% -

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 234 278 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.31% 79.43% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 167 282
10th Percentile £190 £143 £190
25th Percentile £283 £209 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 41 22
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 -
25th Percentile £13.94 £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £15.50 £25.18 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -38.44% +29.19% -2.11%
75th Percentile £20.75 £48.00 £26.38
90th Percentile £22.21 £53.75 £49.88
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £23.08 £19.49
% change year-on-year -11.18% +18.42% +2.82%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 49 £375 -26.11% 68
Newport +13 5 £395 +62.89% 22
Glamorgan - 1 - - 61
Torfaen - 1 £425 - 2
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 8 (14.29%) Oracle Service Bus
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.36%) UserZoom
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 11 (19.64%) AWS
3 10 (17.86%) GCP
4 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.36%) Miro
5 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.79%) Asana
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.79%) dbt
7 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.79%) Serverless
7 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.14%) MySQL
3 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Selenium
2 4 (7.14%) SpecFlow
3 2 (3.57%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.57%) Git
4 1 (1.79%) Appium
4 1 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) NUnit
4 1 (1.79%) Postman
4 1 (1.79%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (8.93%) Finance
5 5 (8.93%) Welsh Language
6 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Digital Health
7 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Lead
2 8 (14.29%) Designer
2 8 (14.29%) Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Consultant
3 7 (12.50%) Lead Designer
3 7 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
4 6 (10.71%) Architect
5 5 (8.93%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Interaction Designer
5 5 (8.93%) Oracle SOA Consultant
5 5 (8.93%) Senior
5 5 (8.93%) SOA Consultant
5 5 (8.93%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.36%) BPM Consultant
7 3 (5.36%) Service Designer
7 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.36%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) SOAP
1 9 (16.07%) XML
2 8 (14.29%) JSON
2 8 (14.29%) OAuth
2 8 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 8 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 8 (14.29%) REST
2 8 (14.29%) Swagger
2 8 (14.29%) XSD
3 7 (12.50%) .NET
4 4 (7.14%) CSS
4 4 (7.14%) HTML
4 4 (7.14%) Spring
4 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 3 (5.36%) Blazor
5 3 (5.36%) GWT
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (5.36%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) NHS
2 8 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.57%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Clustering
6 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.79%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (33.93%) Mentoring
3 18 (32.14%) DevOps
4 14 (25.00%) Scrum
5 12 (21.43%) Coaching
5 12 (21.43%) SDLC
5 12 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 11 (19.64%) API Design
7 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
7 9 (16.07%) Validation
8 8 (14.29%) API Management
8 8 (14.29%) BPEL
8 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 8 (14.29%) Project Management
8 8 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 8 (14.29%) SOA
8 8 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
9 7 (12.50%) Business Case
9 7 (12.50%) Service Design
9 7 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) C#
2 8 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 5 (8.93%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.79%) Go
6 1 (1.79%) Korn
6 1 (1.79%) Python
6 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) Degree
2 15 (26.79%) Master's Degree
3 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.14%) CITP
5 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) ISEB
6 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.36%) WCAG
3 2 (3.57%) QA
4 1 (1.79%) HL7
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Google
3 8 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (5.36%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.79%) RedGate