Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in Wales

Data Analytics
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 29 35
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 5 15 11
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.94% 4.64% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 5.32% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 8
10th Percentile - £204 £480
25th Percentile £413 £231 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £551
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -54.59% +42.99%
75th Percentile £450 £257 £672
90th Percentile £473 £326 £987
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £24.14 £15.32
25th Percentile - £37.55 £15.51
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £15.81
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +184.63% -
75th Percentile - - £18.14
90th Percentile - - £19.54
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £28.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +92.86% -17.65% +25.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Analytics 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 415 282 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.01% 87.31% 79.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 195 248
10th Percentile £206 £180 £152
25th Percentile £304 £261 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £570
90th Percentile £618 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 29 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £11.57
25th Percentile £14.95 £20.12 £13.14
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +15.27% +5.21%
75th Percentile £27.89 £29.25 £31.02
90th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £86.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
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 Data Analytics within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 March 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 -15 5 £425 +74.36% 14
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Billing
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) GCP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) FinOps
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google