SDLC Contracts in South Wales

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for SDLC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDLC over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing SDLC 10 11 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.07% 2.30% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 2.61% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £433 £510 £420
25th Percentile £489 £575 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £523 £663 £606
90th Percentile £524 £700 £675
Wales median daily rate £509 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -15.21% +9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
Wales median hourly rate £48.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

SDLC 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 253 422 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 77.61% 88.28% 84.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 321 532
10th Percentile £143 £190 £263
25th Percentile £313 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +15.61%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £490 £490 £488
% change year-on-year - +0.51% +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 22
10th Percentile £11.45 £16.37 £15.35
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.14 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -15.11% +3.99%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £86.90 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £21.37
% change year-on-year +5.68% -15.11% +6.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SDLC in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SDLC in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for SDLC in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for SDLC in South Wales

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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 SDLC 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 +14 9 £515 +0.49% 10
Newport +2 1 - -
SDLC
Wales

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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:

Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (50.00%) Migration Manager
2 5 (50.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Software Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Development Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Development Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Health Informatics
5 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Test Management
5 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (20.00%) Progress