Senior Developer Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Senior Developer
Wales > West Wales

The median Senior Developer daily rate in West Wales is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 1.39% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £469 £325 £584
% change year-on-year +44.23% -44.37% +33.54%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West Wales with a recognized job title 57 23 21
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.17% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 22 18
10th Percentile £363 - £179
25th Percentile £391 £206 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £506 £488 £505
90th Percentile £570 £638 £550
Wales median daily rate £455 £388 £438
% change year-on-year +17.42% -11.43% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £16.29 - £12.70
25th Percentile £17.40 £17.75 £14.13
Median hourly rate £26.20 £18.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.62% +2.78% +18.36%
75th Percentile £35.00 £19.25 £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
Wales median hourly rate £20.12 £20.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -1.88% -22.64% +10.81%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in West Wales

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in West Wales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in West Wales

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. 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
Swansea - 1 £413 - 2
Senior Developer
Wales

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales

For the 6 months to 25 September 2026, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Wales region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OneLogin
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OneLogin
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle