ESRI Contract Job Trends in South Wales

ESRI
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales citing ESRI products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ESRI over the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	39	-	44
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing ESRI	7	0	1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales	1.48%	-	0.27%
As % of the Vendors category	3.13%	-	0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	7	0	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£538	-	£710
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	-	£720
75^th Percentile	£675	-	£730
90^th Percentile	£695	-	-
Wales median daily rate	£600	-	£720

All Vendors
South Wales

ESRI falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing vendor products and services in South Wales.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing vendor products and services	224	136	137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales	47.46%	41.09%	36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted	123	86	87
10^th Percentile	£213	£190	£161
25^th Percentile	£325	£290	£210
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£375	£400
Median % change year-on-year	+20.00%	-6.25%	-20.00%
75^th Percentile	£581	£499	£550
90^th Percentile	£658	£625	£638
Wales median daily rate	£450	£325	£475
% change year-on-year	+38.46%	-31.58%	+5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted	32	14	7
10^th Percentile	£13.96	£13.47	£24.36
25^th Percentile	£17.63	£15.74	£25.60
Median hourly rate	£21.46	£20.50	£50.00
Median % change year-on-year	+4.68%	-59.00%	+109.07%
75^th Percentile	£74.00	£20.75	£51.88
90^th Percentile	£82.88	£27.85	£54.25
Wales median hourly rate	£19.50	£20.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	-4.88%	-31.67%	+25.44%

ESRI Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

ESRI Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

ESRI Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ESRI in South Wales over the 6 months to 5 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ESRI in South Wales

ESRI Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

ESRI 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 ESRI within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Cardiff	-	7	£600	-	3
ESRI Wales

ESRI Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 5 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing ESRI also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Wales region citing ESRI.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ArcGIS	100.0%	7
1	GIS	100.0%	7
3	Knowledge Transfer	71.4%	5
3	Stakeholder Engagement	71.4%	5
5	Business Transformation	42.9%	3
5	Data Cleansing	42.9%	3
5	Data Governance	42.9%	3
5	Data Migration	42.9%	3
5	Data Quality	42.9%	3
5	Migration	42.9%	3
5	Network Design	42.9%	3
5	Technical Debt	42.9%	3
5	Validation	42.9%	3
14	Technology Transformation	28.6%	2
15	Cloud Security	14.3%	1
15	Commercial Awareness	14.3%	1
15	Cybersecurity	14.3%	1
15	Dependency Management	14.3%	1
15	Enterprise Architecture	14.3%	1
15	Integration Patterns	14.3%	1
15	Programme Governance	14.3%	1
15	Stakeholder Management	14.3%	1
15	Technical Leadership	14.3%	1

ESRI Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Application Platforms

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ArcGIS	100.0%	7