Developer Contracts in South Wales

Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median Developer daily rate in South Wales is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 66 64 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 20.25% 13.39% 14.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 22.60% 14.13% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 61 87
10th Percentile £370 £313 £406
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +31.25%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £606
90th Percentile £570 £663 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £488 £511
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.55% +27.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
Wales median hourly rate - £20.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 292 453 828
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.57% 94.77% 96.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 347 616
10th Percentile £143 £182 £213
25th Percentile £313 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 30
10th Percentile £12.10 £13.00 £11.09
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.98 £12.99
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -8.89% +10.61%
75th Percentile £52.81 £21.50 £25.56
90th Percentile £86.54 £49.38 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.68% -8.89% +17.12%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in South Wales

Developer
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 Developer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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 +2 63 £500 +5.26% 16
Newport +6 3 £350 -46.15% 2
Developer
Wales

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Developer 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 South Wales region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 21 (31.82%) SQL
2 19 (28.79%) Full Stack Development
3 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 16 (24.24%) React
4 16 (24.24%) TypeScript
5 15 (22.73%) Agile
5 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
6 14 (21.21%) GitHub
6 14 (21.21%) Cypress.io
6 14 (21.21%) Vue
7 13 (19.70%) .NET
8 12 (18.18%) Project Management
8 12 (18.18%) QA
8 12 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 12 (18.18%) Azure
8 12 (18.18%) Product Ownership
9 11 (16.67%) T-SQL
10 10 (15.15%) Laravel
11 9 (13.64%) C#
12 8 (12.12%) Front End Development
13 7 (10.61%) Power BI
13 7 (10.61%) GitLab
13 7 (10.61%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (10.61%) Analytics
13 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
13 7 (10.61%) PHP
13 7 (10.61%) MySQL
13 7 (10.61%) Linux
13 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence

Developer Skill Set
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 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.21%) GitHub
2 12 (18.18%) Azure
3 7 (10.61%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.09%) AWS
4 6 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.52%) Heroku
7 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) MySQL
1 7 (10.61%) Power BI
1 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (7.58%) Power Query
4 3 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Cypress.io
2 7 (10.61%) GitLab
2 7 (10.61%) Postman
2 7 (10.61%) Storybook
3 3 (4.55%) Git
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.03%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) React
2 14 (21.21%) Vue
3 13 (19.70%) .NET
4 10 (15.15%) Laravel
5 6 (9.09%) Next.js
5 6 (9.09%) Playwright
6 4 (6.06%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.55%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.55%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.55%) CSS
7 3 (4.55%) Flutter
7 3 (4.55%) HTML
7 3 (4.55%) Redux
8 2 (3.03%) Blazor
8 2 (3.03%) Node.js
8 2 (3.03%) React Native
9 1 (1.52%) Kafka
9 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.58%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.58%) NHS
3 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.52%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 3 (4.55%) Android
2 3 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) Full Stack Development
2 15 (22.73%) Agile
2 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 12 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 12 (18.18%) Project Management
3 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 8 (12.12%) Front End Development
5 7 (10.61%) Analytics
5 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (9.09%) Objectives and Key Results
6 6 (9.09%) Unit Testing
7 5 (7.58%) Software Engineering
8 4 (6.06%) Data Analytics
8 4 (6.06%) Decision-Making
8 4 (6.06%) OO
9 3 (4.55%) Data Protection
9 3 (4.55%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (4.55%) OOD
9 3 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (4.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.82%) SQL
2 16 (24.24%) TypeScript
3 11 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 9 (13.64%) C#
5 7 (10.61%) PHP
6 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.58%) Python
7 3 (4.55%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.03%) Dart
9 1 (1.52%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.52%) Java
9 1 (1.52%) Swift
9 1 (1.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Databricks
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle
2 4 (6.06%) RedGate
3 3 (4.55%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.52%) Salesforce