Data Analytics Contracts in Sheffield

Data Analytics
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 59 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.79% 0.47% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.52% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £496 - -
25th Percentile £511 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -18.28%
75th Percentile £606 £738 £448
90th Percentile £610 - £476
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £725 £400
% change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -18.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Data 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 476 384 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.26% 89.51% 94.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 207 264
10th Percentile £305 £380 £375
25th Percentile £384 £425 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -15.50% +16.11%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £688
90th Percentile £634 £641 £744
South Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £503 £564
% change year-on-year -6.71% -10.82% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £20.20 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +16.42%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £20.69
90th Percentile - - £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £19.50
% change year-on-year +43.08% -34.21% +16.42%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in Sheffield

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in Sheffield

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in Sheffield over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in Sheffield

Data Analytics
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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Big Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat