Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in Wales

Data Strategy
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.46% - 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile - - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £523
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.13%
75th Percentile - - £586
90th Percentile - - £617
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Strategy 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 345 320 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 80.05% 86.02% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 197 263
10th Percentile £187 £165 £173
25th Percentile £290 £220 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -13.16%
75th Percentile £511 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 36 22
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.67 £13.80
25th Percentile £16.09 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £18.18 £22.25 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -25.42% +49.84%
75th Percentile £23.31 £29.06 £53.44
90th Percentile £34.20 £41.25 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Data Strategy
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 Strategy within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
North Wales - 1 - -
South Wales - 1 £450 - 6
Data Strategy
UK

Data Strategy
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft