Agile Contracts in South Wales

Agile Software Development
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 47 86 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 15.11% 17.13% 20.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.11% 19.24% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 62 135
10th Percentile £368 £318 £371
25th Percentile £425 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £579 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +10.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £590 £675 £675
Wales median daily rate £508 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -10.18% +7.62% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £15.38 - -
25th Percentile £15.66 - -
Median hourly rate £18.14 - £25.00
75th Percentile £21.29 - -
90th Percentile £22.77 - -
Wales median hourly rate £18.14 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -44.18% +30.00% -1.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 447 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 79.10% 89.04% 83.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 344 536
10th Percentile £143 £201 £263
25th Percentile £350 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +12.72%
75th Percentile £574 £588 £575
90th Percentile £676 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 23 23
10th Percentile £11.14 £16.37 £15.45
25th Percentile £14.99 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.14 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -12.58% -3.26%
75th Percentile £61.56 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £20.75
% change year-on-year +5.68% -12.58% -1.19%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in South Wales over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 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
Cardiff -3 40 £514 -6.59% 59
Newport +1 7 £325 -45.83% 7
Agile
Wales

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) GitHub
2 13 (27.66%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (12.77%) AWS
5 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) GCP
6 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) VPN
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Internet
2 1 (2.13%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.13%) LAN
2 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) MySQL
2 9 (19.15%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (29.79%) Cypress.io
2 8 (17.02%) GitLab
2 8 (17.02%) Postman
3 7 (14.89%) JIRA
4 6 (12.77%) Storybook
5 1 (2.13%) AppScan
5 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.13%) Git
5 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.13%) Subversion
5 1 (2.13%) tSQLt
General
1 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Developer
2 13 (27.66%) Project Manager
3 8 (17.02%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (14.89%) PHP Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Analyst
6 5 (10.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (10.64%) Migration Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Migration Project Manager
7 4 (8.51%) Data Scientist
8 3 (6.38%) Agile Project Manager
8 3 (6.38%) React Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Software Manager
8 3 (6.38%) Software Project Manager
9 2 (4.26%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
9 2 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Full Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Test Analyst
10 1 (2.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.79%) Vue
2 12 (25.53%) Laravel
3 9 (19.15%) React
4 6 (12.77%) Playwright
5 5 (10.64%) PySpark
6 4 (8.51%) .NET
7 2 (4.26%) CSS
7 2 (4.26%) HTML
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (2.13%) ADO
8 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.13%) FHIR
8 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.51%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.51%) NHS
3 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) LIMS
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Project Management
2 14 (29.79%) CI/CD
2 14 (29.79%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (29.79%) Test Automation
3 13 (27.66%) Scrum
4 11 (23.40%) Analytics
4 11 (23.40%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (19.15%) Data Analytics
6 8 (17.02%) Front End Development
6 8 (17.02%) SDLC
7 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.89%) Unit Testing
8 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
8 6 (12.77%) Objectives and Key Results
8 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.64%) Data Science
9 5 (10.64%) Migration
9 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
10 4 (8.51%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) PHP
2 6 (12.77%) Python
2 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.64%) SQL
4 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.26%) PMP
4 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.91%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) HL7
3 1 (2.13%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Argo
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 2 (4.26%) Grafana
2 2 (4.26%) Nagios
2 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) Graylog
3 1 (2.13%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Nessus
3 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.13%) Puppet
3 1 (2.13%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.02%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Progress
4 1 (2.13%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) InterSystems
4 1 (2.13%) Meraki
4 1 (2.13%) Planview
4 1 (2.13%) RedGate
4 1 (2.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.13%) Veracode