Analytics Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Analytics
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 36 50
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 71 16 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.18% 4.08% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 4.34% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 10 9
10th Percentile £365 £477 £423
25th Percentile £425 £520 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +7.96% -15.50%
75th Percentile £569 £612 £520
90th Percentile £614 £615 £548
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £483 £507
% change year-on-year +3.63% -4.83% -6.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,038 369 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.42% 94.13% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 236 236
10th Percentile £363 £225 £358
25th Percentile £423 £384 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £555 £569 £582
90th Percentile £669 £640 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile £15.28 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.34 £18.10 £12.59
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.51 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +39.91% +24.46%
75th Percentile £24.29 £18.87 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Analytics job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in South Yorkshire

Analytics
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -8 68 £520 -9.61% 17
Analytics
Yorkshire

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 14 (19.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.04%) Confluence
3 3 (4.23%) SAS
4 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.41%) Apache
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) AWS
2 9 (12.68%) GCP
3 7 (9.86%) OpenShift
4 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.45%) GitHub
5 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Storage
6 3 (4.23%) Google Analytics
6 3 (4.23%) Serverless
7 2 (2.82%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.41%) Collibra
8 1 (1.41%) IaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.27%) Big Data
2 8 (11.27%) Hadoop
3 7 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.04%) Power BI
5 3 (4.23%) Delta Lake
5 3 (4.23%) Metadata
6 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.82%) Power Query
6 2 (2.82%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.41%) DataStage
7 1 (1.41%) DB2
7 1 (1.41%) Parquet
7 1 (1.41%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) JIRA
General
1 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 26 (36.62%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (23.94%) Finance
4 12 (16.90%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Marketing
6 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.23%) Legal
8 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Advertising
9 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Data Engineer
1 16 (22.54%) Lead
2 13 (18.31%) Analyst
3 6 (8.45%) Python Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Architect
4 5 (7.04%) Data Analyst
5 4 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Data Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Lead Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Mobile Product Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Performance Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Product Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.23%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) Apache Avro
1 8 (11.27%) Kafka
1 8 (11.27%) Protocol Buffers
2 7 (9.86%) JSON
2 7 (9.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (5.63%) Middleware
3 4 (5.63%) PySpark
4 3 (4.23%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.41%) CSS
5 1 (1.41%) JSON Schema
5 1 (1.41%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.63%) IoT
5 3 (4.23%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.23%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.41%) Social Media
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (36.62%) AI
3 24 (33.80%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (30.99%) Data Engineering
5 19 (26.76%) ETL
6 18 (25.35%) Agile
6 18 (25.35%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (25.35%) Data Modelling
7 17 (23.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
9 14 (19.72%) Dashboard Development
10 12 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (16.90%) Validation
11 11 (15.49%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (15.49%) Visualisation
12 10 (14.08%) Data Protection
12 10 (14.08%) Decision-Making
12 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
12 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (12.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) Python
2 21 (29.58%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.23%) Bash
4 3 (4.23%) Bicep
4 3 (4.23%) VBA
5 1 (1.41%) COBOL
5 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.41%) R
5 1 (1.41%) Scala
5 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (2.82%) Degree
1 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) PMO
2 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) GRC
3 1 (1.41%) PERC
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.63%) Ansible
3 4 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.23%) Terraform
5 1 (1.41%) Control-M
5 1 (1.41%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) Splunk
2 10 (14.08%) Google
3 9 (12.68%) Databricks
4 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.23%) Alibaba
5 3 (4.23%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.23%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.23%) Teradata
6 1 (1.41%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) Infor