Agile Contract Job Trends in Wales

Agile Software Development
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 74 67 65
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 15.42% 15.69% 15.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.22% 18.46% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 45 53
10th Percentile £280 £164 £208
25th Percentile £307 £270 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -1.48% -6.88%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £645 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £22.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 385 363 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 80.21% 85.01% 87.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 218 288
10th Percentile £183 £162 £174
25th Percentile £280 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 47 25
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.33 £15.71
25th Percentile £16.75 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.54% -3.15% +37.17%
75th Percentile £23.71 £38.64 £52.50
90th Percentile £30.60 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Wales

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Wales over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Wales

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Agile

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 14 December 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
South Wales +3 68 £413 -17.50% 37
West Wales +1 1 £463 - 3
Dyfed -2 1 £550 +15.79% 3
North Wales - 1 £450 - 7
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.81%) Oracle Service Bus
1 8 (10.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (10.81%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) CMS
3 1 (1.35%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.05%) UserZoom
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.43%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (20.27%) GitHub
4 9 (12.16%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (12.16%) GCP
5 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.11%) AWS
7 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.05%) Miro
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.70%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.70%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.35%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.35%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.41%) MySQL
2 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.35%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.35%) MS Access
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 10 (13.51%) JIRA
1 10 (13.51%) Selenium
2 9 (12.16%) Cucumber
2 9 (12.16%) Git
3 8 (10.81%) JMeter
4 7 (9.46%) Postman
5 6 (8.11%) MSTest
6 5 (6.76%) Visual Studio
7 4 (5.41%) GitLab
7 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.41%) Zephyr
8 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.70%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Finance
4 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.05%) Welsh Language
5 2 (2.70%) Digital Health
5 2 (2.70%) Dutch Language
5 2 (2.70%) French Language
5 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Law
5 2 (2.70%) Military
6 1 (1.35%) Billing
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Local Government
6 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Police
6 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Senior
2 11 (14.86%) Developer
3 9 (12.16%) Lead
3 9 (12.16%) Project Manager
3 9 (12.16%) Test Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Analyst
4 8 (10.81%) Consultant
5 7 (9.46%) Automation Tester
5 7 (9.46%) Business Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) Oracle Consultant
5 7 (9.46%) Tester
6 5 (6.76%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Oracle SOA Consultant
6 5 (6.76%) Quality Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Senior Automation Tester
6 5 (6.76%) Senior Tester
6 5 (6.76%) SOA Consultant
7 4 (5.41%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Technical Manager
8 3 (4.05%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) OpenAPI
1 10 (13.51%) REST
1 10 (13.51%) SOAP
1 10 (13.51%) Swagger
2 8 (10.81%) JSON
2 8 (10.81%) OAuth
2 8 (10.81%) OAuth2
2 8 (10.81%) Web Services
2 8 (10.81%) XML
2 8 (10.81%) XSD
3 7 (9.46%) Playwright
4 6 (8.11%) .NET
4 6 (8.11%) HTML
5 5 (6.76%) CSS
5 5 (6.76%) React
6 4 (5.41%) Middleware
6 4 (5.41%) Spring
6 4 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.05%) Node.js
7 3 (4.05%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) NHS
1 10 (13.51%) Virtual Team
2 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.05%) PMI
3 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.35%) SCORM
5 1 (1.35%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.84%) DevOps
2 24 (32.43%) Test Automation
3 20 (27.03%) Scrum
4 19 (25.68%) CI/CD
4 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (20.27%) Migration
5 15 (20.27%) SDLC
5 15 (20.27%) Test Strategy
6 12 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (14.86%) API Design
7 11 (14.86%) Project Delivery
7 11 (14.86%) Unit Testing
8 10 (13.51%) SOA
8 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (12.16%) Data Modelling
9 9 (12.16%) Mentoring
9 9 (12.16%) Project Management
10 8 (10.81%) Kanban
10 8 (10.81%) Non-Functional Testing
10 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.43%) SQL
2 16 (21.62%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.22%) Python
4 11 (14.86%) C#
5 9 (12.16%) PL/SQL
6 8 (10.81%) Java
7 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.76%) Ruby
9 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.35%) Bash
10 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.35%) R
10 1 (1.35%) VB
10 1 (1.35%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) Degree
3 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.11%) ISTQB
4 6 (8.11%) PMI Certification
5 5 (6.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (6.76%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.41%) PMP
7 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.27%) QA
2 7 (9.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.05%) PMO
4 3 (4.05%) WCAG
5 1 (1.35%) GDPR
5 1 (1.35%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Ansible
2 1 (1.35%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.35%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.86%) Oracle
3 6 (8.11%) Google
4 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.35%) HP
5 1 (1.35%) InterSystems
5 1 (1.35%) SAP