Impact Analysis Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Impact Analysis
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Impact Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Impact Analysis 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.56% - 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £676
25th Percentile £538 - £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £713
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.12%
75th Percentile £613 - £753
90th Percentile - - £759
Wales median daily rate £575 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +31.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Impact Analysis 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 296 307 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 83.38% 81.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 168 265
10th Percentile £197 £161 £170
25th Percentile £279 £210 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% -9.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £588
90th Percentile £609 £658 £650
Wales median daily rate £405 £419 £431
% change year-on-year -3.28% -2.90% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 43 25
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £17.40
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £18.18 £25.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.28% -3.85% +30.59%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £32.63 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £19.10 £24.33 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.52% -6.42% +37.17%

Impact Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Impact Analysis job vacancy trend in South Wales

Impact Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Impact Analysis

Impact Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Impact Analysis

Impact Analysis
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 Impact Analysis within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 November 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 £575 -
Monmouthshire - 1 - - 1
Gwent - 1 - - 5
Impact Analysis
Wales

Impact Analysis
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) Availability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware