Analytics Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Analytics
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 29 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +16
Contract jobs citing Analytics 10 14 23
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 3.44% 3.95% 5.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 4.84% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 12
10th Percentile £354 £461 £430
25th Percentile £407 £495 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +0.37% -6.43%
75th Percentile £594 £584 £571
90th Percentile £634 £596 £633
Wales median daily rate £506 £528 £551
% change year-on-year -4.07% -4.22% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £24.27 £16.19 £22.20
25th Percentile £26.42 £17.66 £23.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -22.17% -
75th Percentile £31.88 £20.35 £41.25
90th Percentile £33.00 - £50.40
Wales median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +48.26% -22.17% -

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 251 289 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 86.25% 81.64% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 145 272
10th Percentile £206 £160 £187
25th Percentile £285 £210 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -10.81% -11.90%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £588
90th Percentile £623 £641 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 41 21
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £17.40 £25.36 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.39% -2.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £29.11 £53.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.36 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.16% -2.46% +44.44%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Analytics job vacancy trend in South Wales

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Analytics

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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 9 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in South Wales

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Analytics

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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 9 October 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 -7 4 £418 -24.09% 18
Glamorgan - 4 - - 24
Newport +8 2 £588 +167.05% 9
Analytics
Wales

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Figma
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Power BI
2 4 (40.00%) Spotfire
2 4 (40.00%) Tableau
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (30.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 5 (50.00%) Data Science
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (40.00%) Operations Research
3 4 (40.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Prescriptive Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Statistics
3 4 (40.00%) Supply Chain Planning
3 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 2 (20.00%) Usability Testing
4 2 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (20.00%) Adobe
4 1 (10.00%) Google