Analytical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Analytical Thinking
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Analytical Thinking 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 885 302 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.28% 95.57% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 200 188
10th Percentile £358 £283 £371
25th Percentile £413 £388 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £553 £598 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £658
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.47% +5.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 £11.33
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -17.25% +91.30%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 £18.47 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £17.62
% change year-on-year -8.43% +3.35% +65.71%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Analytical Thinking
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Run
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Power BI
1 7 (63.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Robot Framework
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
1 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 11 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Analyst
1 8 (72.73%) Data Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) JWT
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
1 2 (18.18%) OpenID
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) pytest
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (81.82%) Validation
2 8 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (72.73%) Mathematics
2 8 (72.73%) Statistical Analysis
3 7 (63.64%) Actionable Insight
3 7 (63.64%) Data Collection
3 7 (63.64%) Decision-Making
3 7 (63.64%) Visualisation
4 6 (54.55%) Statistics
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Workflow
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Observability
6 2 (18.18%) RBAC
6 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
6 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) R
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Go
3 2 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) HIPAA
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Okta
1 2 (18.18%) Ping Identity
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat