Analytics Contracts in Sheffield

Analytics
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 43 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +19
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Analytics 27 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.68% 3.66% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.16% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 10
10th Percentile £312 £503 £400
25th Percentile £343 £507 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £625
90th Percentile £590 £658 £635
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +5.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Analytics 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 547 361 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.80% 88.05% 96.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 191 250
10th Percentile £290 £381 £399
25th Percentile £369 £441 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £688
90th Percentile £613 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £515 £593
% change year-on-year -10.19% -13.15% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £14.77 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Sheffield

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Sheffield

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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 4 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.70%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Maple
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) GitHub
3 3 (11.11%) PowerApps
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Data Mining
2 4 (14.81%) Power Query
3 3 (11.11%) Apache Hive
3 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 3 (11.11%) HBase
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.41%) Tableau
5 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.70%) DataStage
5 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Looker
5 1 (3.70%) OLTP
5 1 (3.70%) QlikView
5 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 3 (11.11%) Gradle
2 3 (11.11%) HP UFT
2 3 (11.11%) IntelliJ
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) JUnit
2 3 (11.11%) Maven
2 3 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 13 (48.15%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Test Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Modeller
4 2 (7.41%) Engagement Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Programme Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Engagement Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Excel Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) PySpark
1 3 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (7.41%) Anaconda
2 2 (7.41%) Pandas
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
3 6 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Budgeting
5 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.81%) Data Extraction
5 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (14.81%) Portfolio Management
5 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.11%) BDD
6 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.11%) Financial Modelling
6 3 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 3 (11.11%) VBA
5 2 (7.41%) Scala
6 1 (3.70%) ANSI SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) HDFS
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
1 3 (11.11%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (11.11%) Puppet
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Cognos
2 1 (3.70%) Databricks
2 1 (3.70%) Informatica
2 1 (3.70%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (3.70%) SAP
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk
2 1 (3.70%) Talend