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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytics 4 15 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.78% 7.85% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 9.38% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 6
10th Percentile £334 £203 £365
25th Percentile £380 £231 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £275 £488
Median % change year-on-year +49.09% -43.59% -15.22%
75th Percentile £449 £550 £548
90th Percentile £510 £587 £601
South Wales median daily rate £480 £263 £525
% change year-on-year +82.86% -50.00% -11.02%

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 187 160 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 83.11% 83.77% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 117 146
10th Percentile £210 £175 £181
25th Percentile £290 £231 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +16.13% -13.89%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £530
90th Percentile £638 £680 £613
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £12.65 £21.18 £17.30
25th Percentile £13.56 £22.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £16.22 £25.60 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.65% -11.72% +89.67%
75th Percentile £19.79 £27.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £20.63 £43.25 £50.38
South Wales median hourly rate £19.19 £23.50 £27.17
% change year-on-year -18.34% -13.49% +36.44%

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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 January 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft