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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 41 34
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +20
Contract jobs citing Analytics 32 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.69% 3.46% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 3.87% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 14
10th Percentile £290 - £400
25th Percentile £326 £507 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +7.00% +2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £672 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% +11.34%

All Process and 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 654 413 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.75% 89.20% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 210 247
10th Percentile £307 £225 £370
25th Percentile £389 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £523 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -11.06% +17.49%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £657
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +27.13%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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 -11 25 £475 -9.95% 18
Barnsley - 6 £278 - 3
Doncaster - 1 £445 - 5
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 6 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.50%) Apache
3 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (9.38%) Confluence
3 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.25%) Maple
2 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) Power Platform
2 5 (15.63%) GCP
3 4 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.25%) dbt
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.13%) Alation
5 1 (3.13%) Azure
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) Power BI
2 6 (18.75%) Tableau
3 5 (15.63%) Data Mining
3 5 (15.63%) Power Query
4 4 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 4 (12.50%) Looker
4 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.38%) Apache Hive
5 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.38%) Hadoop
5 3 (9.38%) HBase
6 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.13%) Ataccama
7 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (3.13%) DataStage
7 1 (3.13%) Metadata
7 1 (3.13%) OLTP
7 1 (3.13%) QlikView
7 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.13%) Gradle
4 1 (3.13%) HP UFT
4 1 (3.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Maven
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Local Government
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Business Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Data Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Modeller
4 2 (6.25%) Data Visualisation Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Engagement Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Engineering Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Financial Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Report Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Engagement Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Anaconda
1 3 (9.38%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (3.13%) Great Expectations
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.38%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) Decision-Making
2 10 (31.25%) Data Analytics
3 9 (28.13%) Data Engineering
3 9 (28.13%) Visualisation
4 8 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Agile
6 6 (18.75%) Data Governance
6 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 6 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (18.75%) Data Transformation
6 6 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (15.63%) Budgeting
7 5 (15.63%) ETL
8 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.50%) Cost Management
8 4 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (12.50%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
3 3 (9.38%) VBA
4 2 (6.25%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) Scala
5 1 (3.13%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) PMO
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) HDFS
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Ansible
1 3 (9.38%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (9.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 2 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Cognos
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Talend