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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 79 33 17
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.14% 5.20% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.41% 5.47% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 21 11
10th Percentile £400 £290 £485
25th Percentile £425 £326 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -8.65% +1.96%
75th Percentile £556 £520 £619
90th Percentile £600 £575 £706
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £451 £535
% change year-on-year +2.66% -15.79% -6.96%

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 939 603 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 84.82% 94.96% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 399 213
10th Percentile £363 £294 £326
25th Percentile £426 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £465 £515
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -9.71% -13.15%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £588
90th Percentile £675 £613 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 15
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.77 -
25th Percentile £13.35 £15.00 £12.55
Median hourly rate £20.60 £18.21 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +41.89% -36.64%
75th Percentile £23.25 £18.87 £20.75
90th Percentile £24.29 - £21.80
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.80 £22.14 £13.87
% change year-on-year +2.98% +59.63% -30.65%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +9 75 £507 +6.63% 31
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 (18.99%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.86%) Apache
2 7 (8.86%) Confluence
3 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.80%) Apache Superset
4 3 (3.80%) SAS
5 2 (2.53%) nginx
6 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.71%) Azure
2 15 (18.99%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (13.92%) GitHub
4 10 (12.66%) Power Platform
5 8 (10.13%) GCP
6 6 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.06%) AWS
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (2.53%) Serverless
10 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.99%) Big Data
2 10 (12.66%) Power BI
3 9 (11.39%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.59%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.06%) Trino
6 3 (3.80%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.53%) Metadata
7 2 (2.53%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.27%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.27%) Parquet
8 1 (1.27%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.27%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (26.58%) Finance
3 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.66%) Banking
5 5 (6.33%) Marketing
6 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (16.46%) Data Engineer
1 13 (16.46%) Lead
2 11 (13.92%) Analyst
3 6 (7.59%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 6 (7.59%) Data Analyst
4 5 (6.33%) Developer
4 5 (6.33%) Senior
4 5 (6.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Architect
5 4 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Product Manager
5 4 (5.06%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.06%) Security Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Administrator
6 3 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Consultant
6 3 (3.80%) Mobile Product Manager
6 3 (3.80%) Product Owner
6 3 (3.80%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) Terraform
2 6 (7.59%) PySpark
3 5 (6.33%) Kafka
3 5 (6.33%) REST
4 3 (3.80%) CSS
5 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.53%) HTML
5 2 (2.53%) React
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.27%) DAO
6 1 (1.27%) JSON
6 1 (1.27%) JSON Schema
6 1 (1.27%) Pandas
6 1 (1.27%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (1.27%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.72%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (7.59%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.80%) Blog
5 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.80%) Social Media
6 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.53%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.27%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Solaris
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.71%) AI
1 29 (36.71%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (25.32%) DevOps
3 19 (24.05%) CI/CD
3 19 (24.05%) Data Engineering
3 19 (24.05%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (20.25%) Agile
5 15 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (18.99%) Data Protection
5 15 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.72%) Decision-Making
6 14 (17.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (17.72%) Use Case
7 13 (16.46%) Data Science
7 13 (16.46%) ETL
8 12 (15.19%) Data Modelling
9 11 (13.92%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (13.92%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.24%) Python
2 23 (29.11%) SQL
3 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.13%) Java
5 6 (7.59%) C#
6 5 (6.33%) Bash
7 4 (5.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.27%) COBOL
10 1 (1.27%) Perl
10 1 (1.27%) R
10 1 (1.27%) Scala
10 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (7.59%) Degree
2 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.53%) PMP
4 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.80%) PMO
3 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) NIST
4 1 (1.27%) PERC
4 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.33%) Ansible
3 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.80%) Grafana
4 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.27%) Control-M
5 1 (1.27%) IBM Guardium
5 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (24.05%) Databricks
2 13 (16.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) Infor
4 4 (5.06%) Google
5 3 (3.80%) Splunk
6 2 (2.53%) Teradata
7 1 (1.27%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.27%) Facebook
7 1 (1.27%) IBM
7 1 (1.27%) Instagram
7 1 (1.27%) Oracle
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.27%) SAP
7 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) TikTok
7 1 (1.27%) Workday