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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +14
Contract jobs citing Analytics 5 8 19
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.99% 3.31% 7.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 4.37% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile £344 £521 £425
25th Percentile £405 £535 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £438 £578 £544
90th Percentile £505 £591 £650
South Wales median daily rate £425 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -22.73% +6.02% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - - £22.44
Median hourly rate - - £24.25
75th Percentile - - £25.44
90th Percentile - - £25.78
South Wales median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +48.26% -22.17% -

All Process and 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 212 183 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 84.46% 75.62% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 129 172
10th Percentile £213 £156 £179
25th Percentile £290 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £538
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
South Wales median daily rate £405 £413 £450
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 7
10th Percentile - £15.48 £17.60
25th Percentile £13.08 £19.09 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.30 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% -2.69% +52.81%
75th Percentile £20.50 £26.08 £34.50
90th Percentile £22.24 £27.50 £47.00
South Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.28% -3.85% +30.59%

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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 28 November 2025.

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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Culture Change
4 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft