Analytics Contracts in Cardiff

Analytics
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 21 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 10 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.25% 6.60% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 8.70% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 5
10th Percentile £197 £492 £450
25th Percentile £217 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £244 £551 £565
Median % change year-on-year -55.72% -2.57% +33.73%
75th Percentile £255 £650 £588
90th Percentile £317 £685 £603
South Wales median daily rate £244 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -55.72% -4.26% +31.43%

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 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytics in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Analytics in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytics in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in Cardiff

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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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Metadata
2 4 (40.00%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) GCP Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Metadata Management
4 4 (40.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Data Development
5 2 (20.00%) Database Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (10.00%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (50.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) CSSLP
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Argo
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Databricks
3 3 (30.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Remedy
4 1 (10.00%) VMware