Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Data Analytics
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 25 29
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 5 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.23% 5.19% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 5.81% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile - £199 £473
25th Percentile £413 £227 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £244 £551
Median % change year-on-year +74.36% -55.76% +43.12%
75th Percentile £450 £252 £678
90th Percentile £473 £345 £1,087
Wales median daily rate £425 £250 £551
% change year-on-year +70.00% -54.59% +42.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £24.14 £15.32
25th Percentile - £37.55 £15.51
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £15.81
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +184.63% -
75th Percentile - - £18.14
90th Percentile - - £19.54
Wales median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £15.81
% change year-on-year +11.11% +184.63% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

Data 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 309 241 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 76.11% 89.26% 80.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 166 216
10th Percentile £250 £185 £143
25th Percentile £305 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £513 £540 £588
90th Percentile £650 £631 £658
Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 26 23
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.00 £11.27
25th Percentile £16.47 £20.12 £13.85
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -1.11% +24.04%
75th Percentile £40.30 £38.13 £50.88
90th Percentile £63.00 £45.00 £87.44
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £19.09
% change year-on-year -6.82% +15.27% +5.21%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in South Wales

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Data Analytics
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 Data Analytics within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Newport -1 5 £425 - 5
Data Analytics
Wales

Data 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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Billing
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) GCP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) FinOps
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google