Data Analysis Contracts in Sheffield

Data Analysis
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 45 51
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 20 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 6.10% 2.67% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.49% 2.89% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 1
10th Percentile £135 £555 -
25th Percentile £296 £557 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +12.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £529 £570 -
90th Percentile £674 £576 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -19.64% +12.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Data Analysis 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 308 346 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 93.90% 92.27% 96.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 203 293
10th Percentile £226 £376 £365
25th Percentile £381 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £743
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £12.45
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £14.63
Median hourly rate £18.51 £22.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.86% +7.32% +22.39%
75th Percentile £18.87 £23.75 £31.38
90th Percentile - - £36.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.51 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +5.08% +65.71% -37.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (10.00%) Lucidchart
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) Tableau
3 2 (10.00%) Looker
4 1 (5.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) PMO Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) React Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Anaconda
1 2 (10.00%) OAuth
1 2 (10.00%) OpenID
1 2 (10.00%) Pandas
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
1 2 (10.00%) SAML
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Observability
4 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft