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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 12 21
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Analytics 8 15 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 3.07% 8.47% 6.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 9.43% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 11
10th Percentile £359 £204 £425
25th Percentile £405 £232 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £253 £550
Median % change year-on-year +90.85% -53.92% -8.33%
75th Percentile £629 £545 £658
90th Percentile £801 £575 £689
South Wales median daily rate £425 £253 £550
% change year-on-year +67.68% -53.92% -12.00%

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 207 159 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 79.31% 89.83% 77.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 133 150
10th Percentile £244 £197 £159
25th Percentile £293 £263 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £553
90th Percentile £650 £645 £620
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile £12.21 £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £14.32 £24.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.94% +34.72% +24.01%
75th Percentile £20.94 £34.06 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.13 £45.88 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £22.68
% change year-on-year -4.44% -0.79% +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 12 March 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 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (12.50%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) RBAC
2 3 (37.50%) Use Case
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Batch Processing
4 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Google