Software Engineering Contracts in South Wales

Software Engineering
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 26 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 18 29 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.50% 6.11% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 6.92% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 39
10th Percentile £413 £542 £463
25th Percentile £465 £585 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +6.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £649 £635
90th Percentile - £650 £813
Wales median daily rate £538 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -8.15% +6.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £48.33 - -
25th Percentile £48.81 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% - -
75th Percentile £52.31 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £53.18 - -
Wales median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.61% - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 419 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 77.37% 88.21% 84.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 320 529
10th Percentile £143 £190 £263
25th Percentile £313 £372 £410
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 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 21
10th Percentile £11.45 £16.37 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.14 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -10.38% -2.58%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £86.90 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £20.24
% change year-on-year +5.68% -10.38% -1.27%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in South Wales

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in South Wales

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in South Wales

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in South Wales

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -1 8 £490 -16.38% 10
Bridgend - 6 £700 -
Newport -1 3 - -
Caerphilly - 1 - - 1
Software Engineering
Wales

Software Engineering
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 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) GitHub
2 5 (27.78%) 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 6 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 5 (27.78%) Storybook
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
1 1 (5.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 5 (27.78%) IAM Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Identity Management Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Vue
2 5 (27.78%) Playwright
3 3 (16.67%) Laravel
4 2 (11.11%) FHIR
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
1 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 6 (33.33%) Project Management
1 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (27.78%) Front End Development
2 5 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (27.78%) Objectives and Key Results
2 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Data Mapping
3 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.56%) User Experience
4 1 (5.56%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 2 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Google