Data Analyst Contracts in Sheffield

Data Analyst
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Sheffield is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 44 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 6 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 2.90% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 3.24% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £135 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +50.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £528 - £425
90th Percentile £538 - £433
South Yorkshire median daily rate £145 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -75.83% +50.00% -5.88%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 291 340 445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 89.71% 98.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 210 311
10th Percentile £220 £360 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -12.50% +10.00%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £675
90th Percentile £641 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +24.15% +8.21%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 - £33.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
% change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Sheffield

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Sheffield

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Sheffield

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Debt
3 3 (50.00%) ETL Development
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Google
4 2 (33.33%) JIRA
4 2 (33.33%) QA
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Looker
4 2 (33.33%) TestRail
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (16.67%) Databricks

Data 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (33.33%) Looker
4 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) ETL Development
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Debt
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks