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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 36 45
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Analytics 44 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.89% 1.84% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.21% 1.93% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 5 9
10th Percentile £359 £440 £410
25th Percentile £404 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £610 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +22.03% +11.73%
75th Percentile £600 £706 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £717
Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +10.27% -7.50% -4.76%

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 844 259 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 93.88% 95.22% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 166 254
10th Percentile £354 £211 £341
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £679
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 13
10th Percentile £14.55 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 - £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.27 £25.00 £15.23
% change year-on-year -10.94% +64.15% +43.27%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -23 43 £475 -22.15% 20
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 4 (9.09%) Apache
1 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) SAS
4 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 11 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (20.45%) AWS
4 8 (18.18%) GCP
4 8 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Functions
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Storage
5 3 (6.82%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Alation
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.27%) IaaS
6 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
1 1 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (2.27%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.27%) DHCP
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
1 1 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (2.27%) Network Security
1 1 (2.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Power BI
2 8 (18.18%) Power Query
2 8 (18.18%) PowerPivot
3 3 (6.82%) Apache Hive
3 3 (6.82%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.82%) HBase
3 3 (6.82%) Metadata
4 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.27%) Ataccama
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.27%) OLTP
5 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
General
1 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (47.73%) Banking
3 18 (40.91%) Finance
4 13 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.36%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.82%) Legal
7 3 (6.82%) Marketing
7 3 (6.82%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.27%) Advertising
9 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Analyst
2 8 (18.18%) Strategy Analyst
3 7 (15.91%) Data Analyst
3 7 (15.91%) Data Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Lead
5 4 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Financial Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Risk Business Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (15.91%) Apache Avro
2 7 (15.91%) Kafka
2 7 (15.91%) Protocol Buffers
3 6 (13.64%) JSON
4 5 (11.36%) Middleware
5 4 (9.09%) Anaconda
6 3 (6.82%) ARM Templates
6 3 (6.82%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (2.27%) Great Expectations
7 1 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.64%) Credit Risk
2 6 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.09%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (38.64%) Data Modelling
3 14 (31.82%) Dashboard Development
4 13 (29.55%) Data Governance
4 13 (29.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (27.27%) Data Engineering
5 12 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 11 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
7 10 (22.73%) Decision-Making
7 10 (22.73%) Validation
8 9 (20.45%) Data Extraction
8 9 (20.45%) ETL
9 8 (18.18%) Agile
9 8 (18.18%) Data Analysis
9 8 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
9 8 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
9 8 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
9 8 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (65.91%) Python
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) VBA
4 3 (6.82%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) Bicep
4 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) Java
5 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) PMO
2 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) GRC
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.82%) HDFS
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.09%) Ansible
3 4 (9.09%) Terraform
4 3 (6.82%) Hadoop YARN
4 3 (6.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Splunk
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Google
4 3 (6.82%) Alibaba
4 3 (6.82%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.82%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.55%) Databricks
5 2 (4.55%) Teradata
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco
6 1 (2.27%) F5
6 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.27%) NetScout
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.27%) SevOne
6 1 (2.27%) VMware