Analyst Contracts in Sheffield

Analyst
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Analyst daily rate in Sheffield is £386, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 49 9
Rank change year-on-year +35 -40 +3
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Analyst 82 9 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 14.21% 2.20% 13.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.56% 2.50% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 7 32
10th Percentile £263 £289 £300
25th Percentile £311 £368 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £378 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -24.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £438 £484 £593
90th Percentile £487 £543 £629
South Yorkshire median daily rate £380 £370 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -22.11% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £11.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.11%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 527 360 384
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 87.80% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 202 250
10th Percentile £287 £382 £385
25th Percentile £368 £439 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £537 £589 £688
90th Percentile £608 £637 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £514 £568
% change year-on-year -12.45% -9.51% +13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.88 £11.64
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £13.77
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £22.06
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £27.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +11.89%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Sheffield

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Sheffield

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Sheffield over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Sheffield

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Sheffield

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 42 (51.22%) Finance
2 37 (45.12%) Social Skills
3 30 (36.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 26 (31.71%) Microsoft
5 24 (29.27%) Agile
6 23 (28.05%) JIRA
7 21 (25.61%) Banking
8 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (23.17%) Confluence
10 18 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (20.73%) Azure
12 16 (19.51%) Data Analysis
13 14 (17.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 14 (17.07%) Privileged Access Management
14 13 (15.85%) Power Platform
14 13 (15.85%) GCP
14 13 (15.85%) Data Centre
14 13 (15.85%) SQL
14 13 (15.85%) Budgeting
15 12 (14.63%) ITIL
15 12 (14.63%) Scrum
15 12 (14.63%) AWS
15 12 (14.63%) Kanban
15 12 (14.63%) Power BI
15 12 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
15 12 (14.63%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (13.41%) Decision-Making
16 11 (13.41%) Data Protection
16 11 (13.41%) SharePoint

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (23.17%) Confluence
2 11 (13.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (36.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (17.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (9.76%) MS Visio
5 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.73%) Azure
2 13 (15.85%) GCP
2 13 (15.85%) Power Platform
3 12 (14.63%) AWS
4 7 (8.54%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.88%) Lucidchart
6 4 (4.88%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.88%) SaaS
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.22%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.44%) Firewall
3 1 (1.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) Power BI
2 8 (9.76%) Power Query
3 5 (6.10%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.66%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.66%) Tableau
5 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (28.05%) JIRA
2 10 (12.20%) SoapUI
3 9 (10.98%) Postman
4 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.22%) Selenium
4 1 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (51.22%) Finance
2 37 (45.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (25.61%) Banking
4 20 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (14.63%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.88%) Retail
7 3 (3.66%) Billing
7 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) SAML
2 7 (8.54%) OAuth
2 7 (8.54%) OpenID
3 2 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (1.22%) Kafka
4 1 (1.22%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.20%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (8.54%) Mainframe
4 5 (6.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (6.10%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.66%) Equities
6 2 (2.44%) Derivative
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.22%) FMCG
7 1 (1.22%) IVR
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.22%) PDA
7 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Android
2 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.27%) Agile
2 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (19.51%) Data Analysis
5 14 (17.07%) Privileged Access Management
6 13 (15.85%) Budgeting
7 12 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (14.63%) ITIL
7 12 (14.63%) Kanban
7 12 (14.63%) Scrum
8 11 (13.41%) Data Protection
8 11 (13.41%) Decision-Making
9 10 (12.20%) API Testing
10 9 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (10.98%) Change Management
10 9 (10.98%) Cost Management
10 9 (10.98%) Portfolio Management
10 9 (10.98%) Software Testing
10 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (10.98%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.85%) SQL
2 3 (3.66%) Python
3 2 (2.44%) VBA
4 1 (1.22%) Java
4 1 (1.22%) Uniface
4 1 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (8.54%) CISM
1 7 (8.54%) CISSP
1 7 (8.54%) ISTQB
2 4 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) PMO
2 5 (6.10%) GDPR
2 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.10%) NIST
2 5 (6.10%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.44%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.44%) Terraform
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.20%) CyberArk
3 9 (10.98%) Google
4 8 (9.76%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (9.76%) Thycotic
5 3 (3.66%) Alibaba
6 1 (1.22%) BMC
6 1 (1.22%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) Genesys
6 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) Toshiba