Analytics Contracts in South Wales

Analytics
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 17 22 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 17 19 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 6.97% 5.65% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.80% 7.06% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 7
10th Percentile £197 £489 £488
25th Percentile £217 £509 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £244 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -55.72% -4.26% +31.43%
75th Percentile £255 £644 £644
90th Percentile £317 £680 £685
Wales median daily rate £250 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -54.57% -4.30% +31.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 £15.81 -
Median % change year-on-year +184.63% - -
Wales median hourly rate £45.00 £15.81 -
% change year-on-year +184.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 269 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.34% 80.06% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 190 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £630 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £420 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in South Wales

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in South Wales

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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 Analytics within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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 +1 10 £244 -55.72% 64
Newport +9 6 - - 47
Glamorgan - 1 - - 20
Bridgend - 1 £238 -
Analytics
Wales

Analytics
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 7 (41.18%) AWS
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
1 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Linode
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) SSL
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Metadata
2 4 (23.53%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 5 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) GCP Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Research Scientist
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Designer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) NHS
2 3 (17.65%) Blog
3 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.76%) Cyberattack
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) CentOS
2 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Data Analytics
2 8 (47.06%) Computer Science
3 7 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
4 6 (35.29%) Data Science
5 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Metadata Management
6 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (23.53%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
6 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.76%) Behavioural Analytics
8 2 (11.76%) Data Development
8 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (11.76%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Rust
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Degree
2 10 (58.82%) Master's Degree
3 7 (41.18%) AWS Certification
4 6 (35.29%) Azure Certification
4 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (29.41%) PhD
6 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (11.76%) CCNA
7 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (5.88%) CSSLP
8 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Argo
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Nagios
1 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Google
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
3 3 (17.65%) Cloudera
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.88%) Remedy
5 1 (5.88%) VMware