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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 47 43
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Analytics 83 34 17
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.24% 5.06% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 5.29% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 23 12
10th Percentile £400 £291 £487
25th Percentile £444 £334 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £528
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.95% -4.09%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £655
90th Percentile £645 £675 £734
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 972 643 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 84.74% 95.68% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 427 223
10th Percentile £366 £302 £232
25th Percentile £431 £384 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £476 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -8.46% -11.48%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 14
10th Percentile - £14.66 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 £12.55
Median hourly rate £20.60 £18.87 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +47.08% -37.41%
75th Percentile £24.29 £20.44 £16.68
90th Percentile £24.86 £25.15 £21.05
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £23.79 £19.00
% change year-on-year -20.13% +25.20% -10.84%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +13 80 £507 +1.83% 56
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 13 (15.66%) Apache Spark
2 9 (10.84%) Apache
3 6 (7.23%) SAS
4 5 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (4.82%) Apache Superset
6 3 (3.61%) Confluence
7 2 (2.41%) nginx
8 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.35%) Azure
2 16 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (19.28%) GCP
3 8 (9.64%) AWS
3 8 (9.64%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (9.64%) GitHub
3 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (4.82%) Azure Databricks
4 4 (4.82%) Serverless
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Functions
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.41%) Network Security
2 2 (2.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.20%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) Big Data
2 10 (12.05%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.64%) Metadata
3 8 (9.64%) Power BI
4 6 (7.23%) BigQuery
5 5 (6.02%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.02%) Trino
6 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.61%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.20%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.20%) Looker
8 1 (1.20%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) Git
General
1 25 (30.12%) Finance
2 19 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.66%) Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Marketing
6 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Publishing
8 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) Data Engineer
2 12 (14.46%) Lead
3 9 (10.84%) Analyst
4 7 (8.43%) Data Analyst
4 7 (8.43%) Senior
5 6 (7.23%) Architect
6 5 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Data Modeller
7 4 (4.82%) Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.61%) Administrator
8 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Data Insight Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Insight Data Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) Terraform
2 6 (7.23%) REST
3 5 (6.02%) Kafka
3 5 (6.02%) PySpark
3 5 (6.02%) React
4 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.41%) CSS
4 2 (2.41%) HTML
5 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.20%) DAO
5 1 (1.20%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.20%) Flask
5 1 (1.20%) OAuth
5 1 (1.20%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.20%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.20%) OpenID
5 1 (1.20%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.20%) Spring
5 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (9.64%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.61%) Blog
5 3 (3.61%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.61%) Data Fabric
5 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) Social Media
6 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Unix
2 2 (2.41%) Windows
3 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Solaris
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.35%) AI
2 27 (32.53%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (28.92%) DevOps
4 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
5 21 (25.30%) Data Engineering
6 20 (24.10%) Agile
7 18 (21.69%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (20.48%) Data Modelling
8 17 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (18.07%) Data Protection
9 15 (18.07%) Data Science
10 14 (16.87%) Decision-Making
10 14 (16.87%) Use Case
11 13 (15.66%) Machine Learning
11 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (14.46%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (13.25%) ETL
13 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.55%) Python
2 25 (30.12%) SQL
3 11 (13.25%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.05%) Java
5 6 (7.23%) Bash
5 6 (7.23%) C#
6 4 (4.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.41%) Bicep
8 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.20%) COBOL
9 1 (1.20%) Perl
9 1 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (7.23%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.41%) PMP
4 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) PMO
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.41%) Docker
1 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Grafana
2 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) Control-M
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Databricks
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.05%) Google
3 5 (6.02%) Infor
4 3 (3.61%) Teradata
5 1 (1.20%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.20%) Citrix
5 1 (1.20%) Facebook
5 1 (1.20%) Instagram
5 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.20%) SAP
5 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) TikTok
5 1 (1.20%) VMware
5 1 (1.20%) Workday