Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in Wales

Commercial Awareness
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.33% 0.28% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £430 £256 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £263 -
Median % change year-on-year +73.81% - -
75th Percentile £480 £269 -
90th Percentile £492 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Commercial Awareness 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 447 302 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 73.04% 85.55% 75.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 191 177
10th Percentile £299 £190 £143
25th Percentile £375 £283 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £544
90th Percentile £686 £649 £605
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 48 51
10th Percentile £12.46 £13.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.00 £18.52
Median hourly rate £21.75 £20.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -8.89% +7.17%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 £48.13
90th Percentile £54.38 - £53.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in Wales

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Commercial Awareness within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
South Wales - 2 £456 - 12
Commercial Awareness
UK

Commercial Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Snow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware