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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 36 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 87 34 17
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.58% 5.56% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.98% 5.81% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 23 11
10th Percentile £400 £291 £485
25th Percentile £450 £334 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -8.65% -5.45%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £619
90th Percentile £600 £675 £706
Yorkshire median daily rate £464 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -2.37% -13.64% -8.33%

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 969 585 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 84.41% 95.74% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 391 212
10th Percentile £366 £295 £250
25th Percentile £438 £373 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -8.65% -11.48%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £633 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 15
10th Percentile - £14.66 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 £12.55
Median hourly rate £18.30 £18.87 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +47.08% -37.41%
75th Percentile £22.72 £20.44 £20.75
90th Percentile £24.29 £25.15 £21.80
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.67 £22.58 £18.25
% change year-on-year -12.87% +23.70% -9.88%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +12 83 £518 +4.05% 38
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 15 (17.24%) Apache Spark
2 8 (9.20%) Apache
3 7 (8.05%) Confluence
4 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (5.75%) SAS
5 4 (4.60%) Apache Superset
6 2 (2.30%) nginx
7 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.78%) Azure
2 16 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (18.39%) GCP
3 11 (12.64%) GitHub
4 8 (9.20%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (9.20%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.05%) AWS
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Databricks
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.45%) Serverless
8 2 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.30%) Collibra
8 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.15%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.24%) Big Data
2 10 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.20%) Metadata
3 8 (9.20%) Power BI
4 7 (8.05%) BigQuery
5 6 (6.90%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.75%) Trino
7 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.30%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.30%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.15%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.15%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.15%) Parquet
9 1 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (1.15%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 1 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) Git
General
1 27 (31.03%) Finance
2 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.94%) Banking
5 6 (6.90%) Marketing
6 3 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Publishing
8 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (16.09%) Data Engineer
2 13 (14.94%) Lead
3 9 (10.34%) Analyst
4 6 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Data Analyst
4 6 (6.90%) Senior
5 5 (5.75%) Architect
5 5 (5.75%) Developer
5 5 (5.75%) Product Owner
5 5 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Data Modeller
6 4 (4.60%) Product Manager
6 4 (4.60%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Administrator
7 3 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Site Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) Terraform
2 6 (6.90%) REST
3 5 (5.75%) Kafka
3 5 (5.75%) PySpark
4 4 (4.60%) React
5 3 (3.45%) CSS
6 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.30%) HTML
7 1 (1.15%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.15%) DAO
7 1 (1.15%) Flask
7 1 (1.15%) JSON
7 1 (1.15%) OAuth
7 1 (1.15%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.15%) OpenID
7 1 (1.15%) Pandas
7 1 (1.15%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (1.15%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (1.15%) Spring
7 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.75%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.45%) Blog
6 3 (3.45%) Credit Risk
6 3 (3.45%) Data Fabric
6 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.45%) Social Media
7 2 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.30%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Solaris
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.23%) AI
2 29 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (27.59%) Data Engineering
4 23 (26.44%) DevOps
5 21 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 19 (21.84%) Agile
6 19 (21.84%) Data Modelling
6 19 (21.84%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (19.54%) Data Protection
7 17 (19.54%) Decision-Making
8 16 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (18.39%) Use Case
9 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (16.09%) Data Science
9 14 (16.09%) Machine Learning
10 12 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (13.79%) Roadmaps
11 11 (12.64%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (12.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.93%) Python
2 24 (27.59%) SQL
3 11 (12.64%) PowerShell
4 10 (11.49%) Java
5 6 (6.90%) Bash
5 6 (6.90%) C#
6 4 (4.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.30%) Bicep
8 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.15%) COBOL
9 1 (1.15%) Perl
9 1 (1.15%) Scala
9 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (6.90%) Degree
2 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.30%) PMP
4 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.45%) PMO
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) PERC
4 1 (1.15%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
1 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.90%) Ansible
3 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.45%) Grafana
4 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Control-M
5 1 (1.15%) IBM Guardium
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Databricks
2 16 (18.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.49%) Google
4 5 (5.75%) Infor
5 3 (3.45%) Teradata
6 1 (1.15%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.15%) Citrix
6 1 (1.15%) Facebook
6 1 (1.15%) IBM
6 1 (1.15%) Instagram
6 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk
6 1 (1.15%) TikTok
6 1 (1.15%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) Workday