Software Engineering Contracts in Wales

Software Engineering
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 28 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 18 35 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.79% 5.66% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 6.51% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 42
10th Percentile £423 £505 £463
25th Percentile £475 £560 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £586 £549
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +6.72% +9.83%
75th Percentile £725 £648 £638
90th Percentile - £650 £813
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £590
% change year-on-year - +1.69% +12.38%
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 £64.57 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.21% +17.40% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Software Engineering 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 291 538 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 77.39% 87.06% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 415 597
10th Percentile £160 £190 £200
25th Percentile £356 £353 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 29
10th Percentile £11.57 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.71 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £19.82 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -19.38% +9.76%
75th Percentile £51.75 £24.38 £31.00
90th Percentile £86.54 £49.25 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Wales

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Wales

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Wales over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Wales

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Wales

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Wales region over the 6 months to 7 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 +4 17 £626 +6.74% 19
West Wales - 1 £500 - 4
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) GitHub
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Cypress.io
2 4 (22.22%) Storybook
3 1 (5.56%) CA Gen
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) IAM Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Identity Management Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) CA Gen Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Vue
2 4 (22.22%) Playwright
3 2 (11.11%) FHIR
3 2 (11.11%) Laravel
4 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.56%) CSS
4 1 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (27.78%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
3 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 4 (22.22%) Objectives and Key Results
3 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Data Mapping
4 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) API Integration
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.56%) SDLC
5 1 (5.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
2 2 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded C
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) CA
2 1 (5.56%) Google