Analytics Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Analytics
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +19
Contract jobs citing Analytics 7 11 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.56% 6.43% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 7.10% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 12
10th Percentile £343 £197 £505
25th Percentile £409 £217 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £244 £551
Median % change year-on-year +122.56% -55.74% +12.97%
75th Percentile £686 £255 £654
90th Percentile £801 £317 £687
South Wales median daily rate £425 £244 £551
% change year-on-year +74.36% -55.74% -11.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 155 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 79.85% 90.64% 76.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 130 144
10th Percentile £249 £195 £148
25th Percentile £305 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £483
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -17.10% +7.22%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £563
90th Percentile £775 £628 £643
South Wales median daily rate £425 £400 £473
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.34% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile - £15.83 £13.00
25th Percentile - £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.73% +25.00% +22.26%
75th Percentile £20.75 £27.50 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.00 £43.25 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.25 £22.68
% change year-on-year -4.49% -1.90% +20.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Analytics

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Cardiff over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Cardiff

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Analytics

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) RBAC
1 3 (42.86%) Use Case
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Business Case
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Google