Data Development Contracts in South Wales

Data Development
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Development 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 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Development 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £201 - -
25th Percentile £203 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £206 - -
75th Percentile £209 - -
90th Percentile £211 - -
Wales median daily rate £206 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Data Development 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%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in South Wales

Data Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Data Development in South Wales

Data Development
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 Development 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 - 2 £206 -
Data Development
Wales

Data Development
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 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Repository
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft