Trend Analysis Contract Job Trends in Wales

Trend Analysis
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Trend Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Trend Analysis 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.22% - 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £208
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.47%
75th Percentile - - £211
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £511 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.63% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.25
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £34.50
90th Percentile - - £34.95
UK median hourly rate - - £22.25
% change year-on-year - - -65.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Trend 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 357 322 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.29% 86.56% 84.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 201 268
10th Percentile £195 £167 £174
25th Percentile £290 £231 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +1.19% -11.58%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £563
90th Percentile £638 £650 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 27
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.08 £13.03
25th Percentile £16.09 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £18.18 £22.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% -30.77% +72.73%
75th Percentile £23.50 £29.69 £55.25
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.88 £86.72
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.61% +10.63%

Trend Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Trend Analysis job vacancy trend in Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Trend Analysis

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Trend Analysis

Trend Analysis
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 Trend Analysis within the Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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
South Wales - 1 - - 4
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UK

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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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk