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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +19
Contract jobs citing Analytics 4 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.01% 5.29% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 7.02% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 9
10th Percentile £334 £489 £465
25th Percentile £380 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +4.76% +27.27%
75th Percentile £497 £563 £565
90th Percentile £604 £588 £625
South Wales median daily rate £506 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -7.95% +0.92% +6.34%
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 £22.84 £20.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +12.87% -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 179 171 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.95% 75.33% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 117 154
10th Percentile £226 £140 £204
25th Percentile £303 £209 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% - -6.15%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £551
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
South Wales median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.13
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.08 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -17.20% +34.72%
75th Percentile £17.00 £25.60 £26.38
90th Percentile £22.04 £25.79 £34.50
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.58
% change year-on-year -42.39% -4.60% +32.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics 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 21 September 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 and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft