Agile Contracts in Wales

Agile Software Development
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 44 50 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 14.81% 12.50% 14.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.79% 17.30% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 42 66
10th Percentile £303 £381 £338
25th Percentile £309 £428 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £508 £568
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% -10.57% +8.10%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £600
90th Percentile £553 £588 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.38 -
25th Percentile - £15.66 £31.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 £18.14 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.25% -44.18% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £21.29 £33.75
90th Percentile - £22.77 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.31% -6.92% +26.21%

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 262 289 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 88.22% 72.25% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 186 388
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £300 £313 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -5.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £488 £553 £586
90th Percentile £616 £641 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 26
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.75 £14.63
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.41 £16.98
Median hourly rate £23.83 £19.09 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% +5.21% -15.11%
75th Percentile £28.88 £51.75 £22.93
90th Percentile £42.38 £85.50 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.80
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.96% +39.41%

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 8 June 2025.

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 8 June 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 -1 38 £413 -19.51% 171
Dyfed - 2 £460 - 1
West Wales 0 1 £475 - 4
North Wales - 1 £325 - 4
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 5 (11.36%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) NetWeaver
2 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) AWS
2 7 (15.91%) GCP
3 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.55%) Asana
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.27%) dbt
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.27%) Power BI
1 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Selenium
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.27%) Appium
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) NUnit
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.36%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (11.36%) Welsh Language
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Digital Health
6 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Lead
2 8 (18.18%) Designer
3 7 (15.91%) Developer
3 7 (15.91%) Lead Designer
4 6 (13.64%) Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (11.36%) Interaction Designer
5 5 (11.36%) Test Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Service Designer
7 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Service Designer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Test Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) .NET
2 3 (6.82%) CSS
2 3 (6.82%) HTML
2 3 (6.82%) SOAP
2 3 (6.82%) XML
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (4.55%) Blazor
3 2 (4.55%) EDI
3 2 (4.55%) GWT
3 2 (4.55%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (4.55%) IDoc
3 2 (4.55%) JDBC
3 2 (4.55%) JMS
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (4.55%) Middleware
3 2 (4.55%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) SAP PI
3 2 (4.55%) XSLT
4 1 (2.27%) React
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) NHS
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
1 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Mentoring
1 16 (36.36%) Scrum
2 11 (25.00%) Coaching
3 10 (22.73%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 7 (15.91%) Business Case
6 7 (15.91%) Project Management
6 7 (15.91%) SDLC
7 6 (13.64%) DevSecOps
7 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.64%) Service Delivery
7 6 (13.64%) User Experience
8 5 (11.36%) Cloud Security
8 5 (11.36%) Data Privacy
8 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
8 5 (11.36%) Interaction Design
8 5 (11.36%) ITIL
8 5 (11.36%) Risk Management
8 5 (11.36%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) C#
2 4 (9.09%) Java
2 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.82%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.55%) ABAP
5 1 (2.27%) Go
5 1 (2.27%) Korn
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.27%) Python
5 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (43.18%) Degree
2 14 (31.82%) Master's Degree
3 4 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 4 (9.09%) CITP
3 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.27%) ISEB
5 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.55%) PMO
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) HL7
2 1 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) Google
3 4 (9.09%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco
5 1 (2.27%) RedGate