Agile Contracts in Wales

Agile Software Development
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 50 97 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 13.62% 15.70% 19.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.73% 17.96% 23.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 69 144
10th Percentile £384 £313 £413
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £588
90th Percentile £588 £675 £674
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £15.38 - -
25th Percentile £15.66 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £18.14 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +30.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £21.29 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £22.77 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.25 £50.77
% change year-on-year -7.28% +28.52% +12.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 282 540 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 76.84% 87.38% 84.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 413 595
10th Percentile £160 £188 £211
25th Percentile £356 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 29
10th Percentile £11.51 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.06 £16.98 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -19.38% +9.62%
75th Percentile £51.75 £24.38 £31.00
90th Percentile £86.72 £49.25 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Wales

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Wales

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Wales over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Wales

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Wales

Agile
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
South Wales -2 47 £515 -8.85% 72
West Wales +4 1 £475 +26.67% 16
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) GitHub
2 15 (30.00%) Azure
3 12 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (14.00%) AWS
5 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.00%) MySQL
2 11 (22.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Cypress.io
2 8 (16.00%) GitLab
2 8 (16.00%) Postman
3 7 (14.00%) JIRA
4 6 (12.00%) Storybook
5 2 (4.00%) Git
6 1 (2.00%) AppScan
6 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (2.00%) Subversion
6 1 (2.00%) tSQLt
General
1 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) Project Manager
3 9 (18.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (14.00%) PHP Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Migration Manager
5 6 (12.00%) Migration Project Manager
6 5 (10.00%) Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (8.00%) Data Scientist
7 4 (8.00%) React Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Agile Project Manager
8 3 (6.00%) Software Manager
8 3 (6.00%) Software Project Manager
9 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Administrator
9 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) DBA
9 2 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (4.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) Vue
2 12 (24.00%) Laravel
3 11 (22.00%) React
4 6 (12.00%) Playwright
5 5 (10.00%) PySpark
6 4 (8.00%) .NET
6 4 (8.00%) CSS
6 4 (8.00%) HTML
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.00%) CSS3
8 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.00%) HTML5
8 1 (2.00%) MobX
8 1 (2.00%) Next.js
8 1 (2.00%) Node.js
8 1 (2.00%) RESTful
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.00%) NHS
3 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) LIMS
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Project Management
2 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (30.00%) Scrum
3 14 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
3 14 (28.00%) Test Automation
4 12 (24.00%) Full Stack Development
5 11 (22.00%) Analytics
6 9 (18.00%) Data Analytics
6 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.00%) SDLC
7 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (16.00%) Front End Development
8 7 (14.00%) Unit Testing
9 6 (12.00%) Migration
9 6 (12.00%) Objectives and Key Results
9 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.00%) Data Science
10 5 (10.00%) DevOps
10 5 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) PHP
2 7 (14.00%) SQL
3 6 (12.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) Ruby
6 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.00%) PMP
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Argo
2 3 (6.00%) Ansible
2 3 (6.00%) Grafana
2 3 (6.00%) Nagios
2 3 (6.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.00%) Graylog
4 1 (2.00%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.00%) Nessus
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) Puppet
4 1 (2.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) Progress
4 1 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.00%) InterSystems
4 1 (2.00%) Planview
4 1 (2.00%) RedGate
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.00%) Veracode