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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing Analytics 10 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 3.13% 2.05% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 2.29% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £295 £242 £489
25th Percentile £306 £252 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £341 £551
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -38.06% -2.57%
75th Percentile £475 £497 £597
90th Percentile £501 £604 £689
South Wales median daily rate £425 £341 £550
% change year-on-year +24.65% -38.03% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £150.25 - -
Median hourly rate £150.50 - -
75th Percentile £150.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £100.25 £22.84 £20.24
% change year-on-year +338.92% +12.87% -16.56%

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 235 175 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 73.67% 89.74% 74.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 133 134
10th Percentile £295 £226 £143
25th Percentile £364 £303 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -10.00% -1.37%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £550
90th Percentile £775 £660 £596
South Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 11
10th Percentile - £12.21 -
25th Percentile £12.21 - £15.48
Median hourly rate £20.87 £13.08 £18.57
Median % change year-on-year +59.52% -29.56% -25.72%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.00 £25.60
90th Percentile - £24.64 -
South Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £15.50 £25.09
% change year-on-year +41.94% -38.22% +28.73%

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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 3 August 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 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (10.00%) dbt
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Power BI
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Executive
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Logistic Regression
5 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 1 (10.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (30.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Databricks
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft