Agile Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Agile Software Development
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Agile 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 10.71% 6.25% 6.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 11.11% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £356 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +26.67%
75th Percentile £413 £488 £488
90th Percentile £478 - -
West Wales median daily rate £375 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -21.05% - +26.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 71.43% 56.25% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 9 3
10th Percentile £375 - £465
25th Percentile £413 £185 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £513
90th Percentile £520 £508 £520
West Wales median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +53.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.42%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £17.21 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.42%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Agile job vacancy trend in Swansea

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Swansea

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Swansea over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Swansea

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform