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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 36 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 75 18 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.36% 4.40% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.04% 4.66% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 11 9
10th Percentile £366 £400 £423
25th Percentile £425 £502 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £507
Median % change year-on-year - +2.51% -15.50%
75th Percentile £555 £611 £520
90th Percentile £614 £613 £548
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -7.40%

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 1,065 386 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.25% 94.38% 86.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 246 237
10th Percentile £363 £242 £359
25th Percentile £424 £385 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £588
90th Percentile £669 £640 £630
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 16
10th Percentile £14.63 £18.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.29 £18.20 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.69 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +45.67% +20.70%
75th Percentile £22.45 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.29 - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -10 72 £507 -7.33% 12
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 16 (21.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.67%) Confluence
3 4 (5.33%) SAS
4 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.33%) Apache
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) Azure
2 7 (9.33%) AWS
2 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (9.33%) GCP
2 7 (9.33%) OpenShift
2 7 (9.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.00%) GitHub
4 4 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.00%) Azure Storage
5 3 (4.00%) Google Analytics
5 3 (4.00%) Serverless
6 2 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.33%) Collibra
7 1 (1.33%) IaaS
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) Big Data
1 10 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.67%) Hadoop
3 7 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (9.33%) Power BI
4 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.00%) Metadata
5 2 (2.67%) Power Query
5 2 (2.67%) PowerPivot
5 2 (2.67%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.33%) Base SAS
6 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.33%) DataStage
6 1 (1.33%) DB2
6 1 (1.33%) Parquet
6 1 (1.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (1.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 28 (37.33%) Analytical Skills
1 28 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Finance
3 12 (16.00%) Banking
4 7 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Marketing
5 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Legal
7 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) Data Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Lead
3 14 (18.67%) Analyst
4 6 (8.00%) Data Analyst
4 6 (8.00%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Developer
5 4 (5.33%) Senior
6 3 (4.00%) Architect
6 3 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Consultant
6 3 (4.00%) Data Consultant
6 3 (4.00%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Lead Consultant
6 3 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Performance Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Product Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) Apache Avro
1 8 (10.67%) Kafka
1 8 (10.67%) Protocol Buffers
2 7 (9.33%) JSON
2 7 (9.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (6.67%) PySpark
4 3 (4.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.67%) CSS
5 2 (2.67%) Middleware
6 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.33%) HTML
6 1 (1.33%) JSON Schema
6 1 (1.33%) Pandas
6 1 (1.33%) React
6 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.00%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.67%) IoT
5 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Blog
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.33%) Social Media
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (36.00%) AI
3 26 (34.67%) Data Pipeline
4 24 (32.00%) Data Engineering
5 21 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (26.67%) Agile
6 20 (26.67%) ETL
7 18 (24.00%) Data Modelling
8 17 (22.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 16 (21.33%) CI/CD
10 14 (18.67%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (18.67%) Dashboard Development
10 14 (18.67%) Visualisation
11 13 (17.33%) Validation
12 12 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
13 11 (14.67%) DevOps
13 11 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (13.33%) Data Protection
14 10 (13.33%) Decision-Making
15 9 (12.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.00%) Python
2 23 (30.67%) SQL
3 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.00%) Bash
4 3 (4.00%) Bicep
4 3 (4.00%) VBA
5 2 (2.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.33%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) COBOL
6 1 (1.33%) R
6 1 (1.33%) Scala
6 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (4.00%) Degree
2 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) PMO
3 2 (2.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) GRC
4 1 (1.33%) PERC
4 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.33%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.33%) Ansible
3 4 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.00%) Terraform
5 1 (1.33%) Control-M
5 1 (1.33%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Splunk
2 11 (14.67%) Databricks
3 8 (10.67%) Google
3 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.00%) Alibaba
4 3 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.00%) Teradata
5 2 (2.67%) Infor
6 1 (1.33%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft