Software Engineer Contracts in Wales

Software Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Wales is £458 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 51 47
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 6 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.47% 1.71% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.80% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 25
10th Percentile £418 £522 £468
25th Percentile £426 £537 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £496 £641 £548
90th Percentile £507 £650 £755
UK median daily rate £625 £590 £575
% change year-on-year +5.93% +2.61% +13.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £48.33 - -
25th Percentile £48.81 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +130.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £52.31 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £53.18 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 363 611 976
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.19% 95.02% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 475 716
10th Percentile £185 £164 £175
25th Percentile £325 £313 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 39
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £11.15
25th Percentile £13.06 £15.25 £13.12
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.67%
75th Percentile £31.02 £19.98 £27.00
90th Percentile £86.54 £44.25 £46.98
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Wales

Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineer in Wales

Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineer in Wales

Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 24 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 +10 6 £458 -22.95% 5
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wales region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
3 1 (16.67%) NHS
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) WPF
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) AWS

Software Engineer Skill Set
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 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) FHIR
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) Laravel
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Vue
1 1 (16.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google