SDLC Contracts in South Wales

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring SDLC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDLC over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 25 43
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing SDLC 8 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.33% 5.09% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 6.37% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 12
10th Percentile £436 £489 -
25th Percentile £514 £503 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -10.43% +21.05%
75th Percentile £588 £530 £625
90th Percentile £599 £576 £693
Wales median daily rate £530 £515 £475
% change year-on-year +2.91% +8.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.00 -
Wales median hourly rate - £48.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

SDLC 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 216 267 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.00% 79.94% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 188 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £357 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -3.46%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £669 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -2.06%
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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDLC in South Wales over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in South Wales

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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 SDLC within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 4 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 -1 7 £530 +2.91% 8
Newport +7 1 £600 - 3
SDLC
Wales

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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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Development Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Development Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) Angular 2
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Express.js
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) NestJS
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Project Governance
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Kanban
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Case
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Interaction Design
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google