Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Analytical Skills
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 13 27
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 71 28 28
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 9.93% 9.09% 7.18%
As % of the General category 15.04% 13.93% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 18 19
10th Percentile £314 £363 £508
25th Percentile £358 £503 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £550 £587
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% -6.38% +6.81%
75th Percentile £569 £688 -
90th Percentile £618 £700 £602
South Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £550 £587
% change year-on-year -14.36% -6.38% +6.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 £14.85 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.85 £14.85 -
% change year-on-year -6.70% - -

All General Skills
Sheffield

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 472 201 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 66.01% 65.26% 67.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 111 171
10th Percentile £313 £250 £400
25th Percentile £400 £443 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £619
90th Percentile £673 £665 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.63% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £13.97 £12.79 £18.65
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £14.43 £18.10 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% -7.21% +2.63%
75th Percentile £14.71 £20.38 £19.88
90th Percentile £14.89 £21.05 £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.43 £18.10 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.28% -9.53% +5.26%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Sheffield over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Sheffield

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 6 (8.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) CICS
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) Power Platform
2 7 (9.86%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) GCP
4 5 (7.04%) Azure
5 2 (2.82%) Akamai
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.41%) Apigee
6 1 (1.41%) GitHub
6 1 (1.41%) Kong
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) DNS
1 2 (2.82%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.41%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.41%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.41%) DHCP
2 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.41%) Firewall
2 1 (1.41%) HTTP
2 1 (1.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.41%) VPN
2 1 (1.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.35%) Power BI
2 12 (16.90%) Power Query
3 9 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.45%) PowerPivot
5 2 (2.82%) MySQL
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.41%) DB2
6 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.41%) OLTP
6 1 (1.41%) Redis
6 1 (1.41%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (28.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.41%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) GitLab
2 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.41%) Travis CI
General
1 38 (53.52%) Finance
2 36 (50.70%) Social Skills
3 19 (26.76%) Banking
4 6 (8.45%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Billing
5 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Legal
6 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (33.80%) Analyst
2 15 (21.13%) Data Analyst
3 7 (9.86%) Business Analyst
3 7 (9.86%) Incident Manager
4 6 (8.45%) Developer
4 6 (8.45%) Strategy Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Product Owner
5 5 (7.04%) Python Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Report Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Major Incident Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.82%) Asset Management Analyst
7 2 (2.82%) Asset Management Business Analyst
7 2 (2.82%) Data Modeller
7 2 (2.82%) DBA
7 2 (2.82%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (2.82%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (2.82%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (12.68%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.82%) Middleware
4 1 (1.41%) .NET
4 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.41%) JMS
4 1 (1.41%) JSON
4 1 (1.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.41%) PySpark
4 1 (1.41%) XML
4 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.45%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.04%) Mainframe
3 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) IVR
5 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.41%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.41%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Windows
2 3 (4.23%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (67.61%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (39.44%) Decision-Making
3 24 (33.80%) Agile
4 19 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (25.35%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (21.13%) Data Analysis
7 14 (19.72%) CI/CD
8 13 (18.31%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (18.31%) Observability
9 12 (16.90%) Analytics
9 12 (16.90%) ITIL
10 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
10 11 (15.49%) Data Governance
10 11 (15.49%) ITSM
11 10 (14.08%) Service Management
11 10 (14.08%) Strategic Planning
12 9 (12.68%) API Development
12 9 (12.68%) Backlog Management
12 9 (12.68%) DevOps
13 8 (11.27%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) Python
2 18 (25.35%) SQL
3 10 (14.08%) VBA
4 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.63%) Perl
6 2 (2.82%) Java
7 1 (1.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) C#
7 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (4.23%) Degree
1 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.41%) CISSP
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.41%) PMP
3 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) GDPR
2 8 (11.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (9.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.23%) PMO
5 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.41%) QA
6 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.08%) Grafana
2 10 (14.08%) Prometheus
3 9 (12.68%) Control-M
3 9 (12.68%) IBM Guardium
3 9 (12.68%) Nessus
4 3 (4.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.82%) Ansible
5 2 (2.82%) CSIRT
5 2 (2.82%) Terraform
6 1 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.41%) Kibana
6 1 (1.41%) logstash
6 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.49%) ServiceNow
3 9 (12.68%) Tenable
4 7 (9.86%) Splunk
5 3 (4.23%) F5
6 2 (2.82%) Genesys
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco
7 1 (1.41%) Databricks
7 1 (1.41%) Dell
7 1 (1.41%) EMC
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) IBM
7 1 (1.41%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.41%) NetScout
7 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.41%) SevOne
7 1 (1.41%) VMware