Analytics Job Trends in Wales

Analytics
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 -37
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 95 20 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.11% 2.40% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 2.92% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 58 14 22
10th Percentile £31,500 £34,250 £32,690
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,438 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £52,562 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.48% -2.66% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £65,766
90th Percentile £75,750 - £73,299
UK median annual salary £65,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.75% -7.69% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,999 686 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.37% 82.25% 64.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 515 658
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £29,750 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +7.78% -1.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in Wales

Analytics
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Wales over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in Wales

Analytics
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Wales region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -3 70 £63,500 +5.83% 57
West Wales -45 21 £30,000 -7.69% 5
North Wales +1 4 £33,000 - 3
Analytics
UK

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 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.05%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Adobe XD
2 5 (5.26%) Sketch
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.58%) AWS
2 18 (18.95%) Azure
3 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.42%) Figma
5 6 (6.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (6.32%) Azure Databricks
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.26%) GCP
6 5 (5.26%) Miro
7 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.21%) dbt
7 4 (4.21%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.16%) GitHub
8 3 (3.16%) Serverless
9 2 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.11%) SaaS
9 2 (2.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.95%) Tableau
2 17 (17.89%) Data Mining
3 16 (16.84%) Amazon QuickSight
4 10 (10.53%) Power BI
5 9 (9.47%) Data Lake
6 6 (6.32%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.16%) Looker
7 3 (3.16%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.05%) Metadata
9 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Git
2 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 32 (33.68%) Finance
2 29 (30.53%) Social Skills
3 28 (29.47%) Marketing
4 18 (18.95%) Public Sector
5 16 (16.84%) Back Office
6 14 (14.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.21%) Advertising
9 3 (3.16%) Legal
10 2 (2.11%) Retail
11 1 (1.05%) Aviation
11 1 (1.05%) Banking
11 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.05%) Law
11 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.05%) Police
11 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (29.47%) Data Engineer
2 19 (20.00%) Senior
2 19 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 16 (16.84%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 15 (15.79%) Lead
5 7 (7.37%) Data Scientist
5 7 (7.37%) Developer
6 5 (5.26%) Designer
6 5 (5.26%) UX Designer
7 4 (4.21%) Lead Data Scientist
7 4 (4.21%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (4.21%) Technology Director
8 3 (3.16%) Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Head of QA
8 3 (3.16%) Principal Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Principal Software Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Web Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Website Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) PySpark
2 9 (9.47%) Terraform
3 5 (5.26%) CSS
3 5 (5.26%) HTML
3 5 (5.26%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.26%) TensorFlow
4 3 (3.16%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.16%) LangChain
4 3 (3.16%) Next.js
4 3 (3.16%) Node.js
4 3 (3.16%) React
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.84%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.37%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.05%) Blog
5 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.05%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.05%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.05%) Robotics
5 1 (1.05%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
1 35 (36.84%) Mentoring
2 32 (33.68%) AI
3 31 (32.63%) Decision-Making
4 27 (28.42%) Machine Learning
5 25 (26.32%) Actionable Insight
6 24 (25.26%) CI/CD
6 24 (25.26%) Data Science
6 24 (25.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (21.05%) Agile
8 20 (21.05%) Visualisation
9 18 (18.95%) Data Analysis
10 17 (17.89%) Data Visualisation
10 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (16.84%) Experimental Design
11 16 (16.84%) Information Retrieval
11 16 (16.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (16.84%) Statistical Analysis
11 16 (16.84%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (49.47%) Python
2 43 (45.26%) SQL
3 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.26%) Java
5 4 (4.21%) C#
6 3 (3.16%) Bash
6 3 (3.16%) Bicep
6 3 (3.16%) Go
6 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.11%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (3.16%) IRCA
1 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
1 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.05%) ACCA
2 1 (1.05%) CIMA
2 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.05%) CSPO
2 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.58%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.42%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.26%) GDPR
4 4 (4.21%) GRC
5 3 (3.16%) ISO 9001
5 3 (3.16%) QA
6 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) Databricks
2 8 (8.42%) Adobe
2 8 (8.42%) Google
3 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.16%) Hotjar
4 3 (3.16%) HubSpot
4 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.11%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle
6 1 (1.05%) Yardi