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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 32 52
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 69 16 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.33% 4.34% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.97% 4.55% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 11 4
10th Percentile £359 £485 £343
25th Percentile £424 £510 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +18.80% -27.08%
75th Percentile £569 £611 £516
90th Percentile £614 £613 £636
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -7.41%

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 990 352 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.83% 95.39% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 227 242
10th Percentile £358 £220 £301
25th Percentile £413 £385 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +0.85% -14.36%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £15.28 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.34 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.21 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +3.35% +65.71%
75th Percentile £24.29 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
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 6 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 6 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 -7 67 £507 -7.33% 19
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 14 (20.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.25%) Confluence
3 4 (5.80%) SharePoint
4 3 (4.35%) SAS
5 1 (1.45%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.54%) Azure
2 9 (13.04%) AWS
2 9 (13.04%) GCP
2 9 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.14%) OpenShift
4 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.70%) GitHub
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Storage
5 3 (4.35%) Google Analytics
5 3 (4.35%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.45%) Collibra
7 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.45%) IaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.04%) Power BI
3 8 (11.59%) Hadoop
4 6 (8.70%) Big Data
4 6 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (7.25%) Power Query
5 5 (7.25%) PowerPivot
6 3 (4.35%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.35%) Metadata
7 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.45%) Parquet
8 1 (1.45%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) JIRA
General
1 31 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 26 (37.68%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (28.99%) Finance
4 15 (21.74%) Banking
5 6 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Marketing
6 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.35%) Legal
8 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Advertising
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) Lead
2 15 (21.74%) Analyst
3 14 (20.29%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Architect
4 5 (7.25%) Data Analyst
4 5 (7.25%) Python Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Strategy Analyst
5 4 (5.80%) Consultant
5 4 (5.80%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Data Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Insight Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Lead Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Mobile Product Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Performance Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Product Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) Apache Avro
1 8 (11.59%) Kafka
1 8 (11.59%) Protocol Buffers
2 7 (10.14%) JSON
2 7 (10.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (5.80%) Middleware
3 4 (5.80%) PySpark
4 3 (4.35%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.45%) CSS
5 1 (1.45%) JSON Schema
5 1 (1.45%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (10.14%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.80%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.80%) IoT
4 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.35%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.35%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Social Media
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.93%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (34.78%) AI
2 24 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (31.88%) Data Engineering
3 22 (31.88%) Data Modelling
4 19 (27.54%) ETL
5 17 (24.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (23.19%) Agile
6 16 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (23.19%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (23.19%) Dashboard Development
7 14 (20.29%) Actionable Insight
7 14 (20.29%) CI/CD
7 14 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (17.39%) Decision-Making
8 12 (17.39%) Validation
9 11 (15.94%) Visualisation
10 10 (14.49%) Data Protection
11 8 (11.59%) Data Analysis
11 8 (11.59%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.07%) Python
2 22 (31.88%) SQL
3 6 (8.70%) VBA
4 3 (4.35%) Bash
4 3 (4.35%) Bicep
4 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.45%) R
5 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (2.90%) Degree
2 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.45%) PMP
2 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) PMO
2 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) GRC
3 1 (1.45%) PERC
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.14%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.80%) Ansible
3 4 (5.80%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.35%) Terraform
5 1 (1.45%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) Splunk
2 10 (14.49%) Google
3 9 (13.04%) Databricks
3 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.35%) Alibaba
4 3 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.35%) Teradata
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle