Analyst Contracts in South Wales

Analyst
Wales > South Wales

The median Analyst daily rate in South Wales is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 21 20 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 8.61% 6.45% 13.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.09% 7.25% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 42
10th Percentile £167 £146 £163
25th Percentile £200 £185 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £413
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% -1.79%
75th Percentile £425 £430 £488
90th Percentile £458 £436 £512
Wales median daily rate £406 £388 £400
% change year-on-year +4.84% -3.13% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 14
10th Percentile - £16.43 £13.70
25th Percentile £20.12 £19.53 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.24 £23.84 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +31.42% +47.42%
75th Percentile £20.35 £25.29 £19.31
90th Percentile - £25.33 £19.98
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £19.09 £18.14
% change year-on-year +6.03% +5.21% +47.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 231 276 474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 89.03% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 198 364
10th Percentile £160 £160 £190
25th Percentile £259 £327 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £480 £551 £586
90th Percentile £625 £639 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 26
10th Percentile £15.24 £11.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.26 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year - +24.04% -6.16%
75th Percentile £43.13 £69.38 £19.98
90th Percentile £46.75 £87.80 £49.38
Wales median hourly rate £21.76 £19.00 £18.14
% change year-on-year +14.50% +4.74% -6.16%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in South Wales

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in South Wales

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in South Wales over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in South Wales

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in South Wales

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +6 13 £400 -0.93% 16
Newport +2 4 £301 +58.55% 1
Bridgend - 2 £238 - 2
Gwent - 2 £450 -
Glamorgan - 1 £288 - 15
Analyst
Wales

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Wales region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Windows
4 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
4 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 3 (14.29%) Power BI
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 3 (14.29%) VMware
5 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.52%) SCCM
6 2 (9.52%) Degree
6 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
6 2 (9.52%) IT Governance
6 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
6 2 (9.52%) ETL
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.52%) Service Management
6 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.52%) VPN
6 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) Broadband
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) RTP
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Postman
1 1 (4.76%) Selenium
1 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
1 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.76%) PKI
1 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.76%) Social Media
1 1 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
2 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 2 (9.52%) Business Case
3 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
3 2 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (9.52%) ETL
3 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
3 2 (9.52%) IT Governance
3 2 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (9.52%) Service Management
3 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
3 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
4 1 (4.76%) Database Tuning
4 1 (4.76%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ACCA
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CIMA
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) IIBA
3 1 (4.76%) ISEB
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
1 1 (4.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) SAP