Statistics Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Statistics
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Statistics 8 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.91% 1.28% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 1.43% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £212 - £204
25th Percentile £326 £285 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £290 £380
Median % change year-on-year +82.76% -23.68% -33.91%
75th Percentile £568 £635 £478
90th Percentile £582 £839 £536
Wales median daily rate £530 £290 £380
% change year-on-year +82.76% -23.68% -33.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - £20.12
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £22.50
75th Percentile £17.25 - £25.27
90th Percentile - - £25.32
Wales median hourly rate £16.50 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

Statistics 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 311 210 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 74.22% 89.36% 77.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 150 171
10th Percentile £289 £190 £143
25th Percentile £363 £294 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £403 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% -17.86% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £486 £566
90th Percentile £750 £650 £667
Wales median daily rate £450 £400 £490
% change year-on-year +12.50% -18.37% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 17 27
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.73 £11.51
25th Percentile £14.68 £15.00 £15.48
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +11.19% +11.55%
75th Percentile £46.85 £41.25 £50.88
90th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £86.72
Wales median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £19.09
% change year-on-year -14.51% +31.78% +5.21%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in South Wales

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Statistics in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Statistics in South Wales

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Statistics
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 Statistics within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 June 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 +3 4 - -
Cardiff - 4 £530 - 3
Statistics
Wales

Statistics
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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (12.50%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (25.00%) MS Access
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) DB2
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (37.50%) Military
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Build Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Flask
1 1 (12.50%) Jinja
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Data Matching
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk