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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 64 108 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 15.92% 17.03% 19.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.13% 19.78% 23.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 77 148
10th Percentile £410 £343 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £588
90th Percentile £648 £675 £674
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 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% +1.46%
75th Percentile £21.29 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £22.77 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.65% +10.56%

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 318 546 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.10% 86.12% 83.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 421 615
10th Percentile £173 £180 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 29 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.00 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.04% -27.44% +29.87%
75th Percentile £51.75 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.00 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 0 60 £515 -6.36% 74
West Wales - 1 £475 - 11
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 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (26.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.63%) Azure
2 24 (37.50%) GitHub
3 16 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (10.94%) AWS
4 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
1 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.94%) MySQL
2 11 (17.19%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.69%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) Cypress.io
2 10 (15.63%) JIRA
3 8 (12.50%) GitLab
3 8 (12.50%) Postman
4 5 (7.81%) Storybook
5 2 (3.13%) Git
6 1 (1.56%) AppScan
6 1 (1.56%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.56%) Subversion
6 1 (1.56%) tSQLt
General
1 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Project Manager
2 17 (26.56%) Developer
3 11 (17.19%) Migration Manager
3 11 (17.19%) Migration Project Manager
4 9 (14.06%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (10.94%) PHP Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Analyst
6 6 (9.38%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 5 (7.81%) Agile Project Manager
7 5 (7.81%) Software Project Manager
8 4 (6.25%) Data Scientist
8 4 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (6.25%) React Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Development Project Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Software Development Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Software Development Project Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) Vue
2 11 (17.19%) Laravel
2 11 (17.19%) React
3 5 (7.81%) Playwright
3 5 (7.81%) PySpark
4 4 (6.25%) .NET
4 4 (6.25%) CSS
4 4 (6.25%) HTML
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.56%) CSS3
6 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.56%) FHIR
6 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.56%) HTML5
6 1 (1.56%) MobX
6 1 (1.56%) Next.js
6 1 (1.56%) Node.js
6 1 (1.56%) Redux
6 1 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.25%) NHS
3 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) LIMS
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Replication
4 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.75%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Windows
3 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Project Management
2 26 (40.63%) Scrum
3 18 (28.13%) CI/CD
4 17 (26.56%) SDLC
5 14 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (20.31%) Analytics
6 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
6 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (20.31%) Test Automation
7 12 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (18.75%) Migration
8 11 (17.19%) DevOps
9 10 (15.63%) Data Analytics
9 10 (15.63%) Project Governance
10 8 (12.50%) Project Delivery
10 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (10.94%) Front End Development
12 6 (9.38%) Kalman Filter
12 6 (9.38%) Kanban
12 6 (9.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.25%) PHP
2 7 (10.94%) SQL
3 6 (9.38%) Python
4 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.13%) C#
5 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.56%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) Java
6 1 (1.56%) Ruby
6 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (29.69%) Degree
2 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.13%) PMP
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.44%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) Argo
2 7 (10.94%) Terraform
3 3 (4.69%) Ansible
3 3 (4.69%) Grafana
3 3 (4.69%) Nagios
4 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.56%) Graylog
5 1 (1.56%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.56%) Nessus
5 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 24 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.56%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco
4 2 (3.13%) Progress
5 1 (1.56%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.56%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.56%) EMC
5 1 (1.56%) InterSystems
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Planview
5 1 (1.56%) RedGate
5 1 (1.56%) Splunk
5 1 (1.56%) Veracode
5 1 (1.56%) Zscaler