Developer Contracts in South Wales

Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median Developer daily rate in South Wales is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 2 10
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 16 66 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 6.75% 20.69% 13.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.99% 23.16% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 55 61
10th Percentile £171 £370 £263
25th Percentile £237 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £600
90th Percentile £596 £563 £663
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £29.25 - £20.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 229 285 462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.62% 89.34% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 201 354
10th Percentile £163 £143 £183
25th Percentile £257 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £586
90th Percentile £620 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £381 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -15.28% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 26
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.35 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +22.84% +12.20% -8.89%
75th Percentile £44.06 £53.44 £21.50
90th Percentile £47.63 £86.90 £49.38
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £19.09 £18.14
% change year-on-year +17.89% +5.21% -8.89%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in South Wales over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in South Wales

Developer
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 Developer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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 -13 15 £375 -24.05% 32
Newport +3 1 £600 +71.43% 12
Developer
Wales

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 South Wales region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 3 (18.75%) Node.js
4 3 (18.75%) High Availability
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (18.75%) Web Services
4 3 (18.75%) XML
4 3 (18.75%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) NHS
4 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (12.50%) FHIR
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD

Developer Skill Set
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 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Joomla!
1 1 (6.25%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (12.50%) Postman
2 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (6.25%) Storybook
3 1 (6.25%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 3 (18.75%) Web Services
2 3 (18.75%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (12.50%) FHIR
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) Express.js
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Laravel
4 1 (6.25%) Memcached
4 1 (6.25%) NestJS
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
4 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) NHS
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) IVR
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Agile
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps
1 4 (25.00%) Scrum
2 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (18.75%) High Availability
2 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) Data Science
3 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 2 (12.50%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
4 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.25%) ETL
4 1 (6.25%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) PHP
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) HL7
2 1 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) RedGate
3 1 (6.25%) Datix
3 1 (6.25%) Google
54 Developer jobs in Wales