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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 37 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 80 24 13
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.72% 4.99% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 5.24% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 15 8
10th Percentile £368 £272 £433
25th Percentile £416 £295 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £520 £507
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +2.51% -15.50%
75th Percentile £550 £605 £524
90th Percentile £616 £613 £554
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £507
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.24% -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 1,063 458 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.25% 95.22% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 297 236
10th Percentile £363 £293 £316
25th Percentile £425 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.41%
75th Percentile £570 £553 £580
90th Percentile £688 £638 £622
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 20
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.86 £10.90
25th Percentile £13.69 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +44.27% +20.70%
75th Percentile £22.20 £18.87 £15.30
90th Percentile £23.87 - £22.18
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.69 £13.23
% change year-on-year +5.16% +63.95% +24.46%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 0 77 £506 -2.60% 14
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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.50%) Confluence
3 4 (5.00%) SAS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.25%) Azure
2 9 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.75%) GCP
4 7 (8.75%) GitHub
4 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
5 6 (7.50%) AWS
5 6 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Functions
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Storage
6 3 (3.75%) Google Analytics
6 3 (3.75%) Serverless
7 2 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.25%) Collibra
8 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) Big Data
1 10 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 8 (10.00%) Power BI
3 7 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.75%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.75%) Metadata
5 2 (2.50%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.25%) DataStage
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.25%) Parquet
6 1 (1.25%) Power Query
6 1 (1.25%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.25%) QlikView
6 1 (1.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (33.75%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 17 (21.25%) Finance
4 12 (15.00%) Banking
5 7 (8.75%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 3 (3.75%) Marketing
8 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Data Engineer
2 14 (17.50%) Lead
3 13 (16.25%) Analyst
4 7 (8.75%) Senior
5 6 (7.50%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Hadoop Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Lead Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) Apache Avro
1 8 (10.00%) Kafka
1 8 (10.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 7 (8.75%) JSON
2 7 (8.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (7.50%) PySpark
4 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.75%) REST
5 2 (2.50%) CSS
6 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.25%) HTML
6 1 (1.25%) JSON Schema
6 1 (1.25%) Middleware
6 1 (1.25%) Pandas
6 1 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.75%) Blog
5 3 (3.75%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Solaris
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (32.50%) AI
2 26 (32.50%) Data Engineering
2 26 (32.50%) Data Pipeline
3 23 (28.75%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (25.00%) Agile
4 20 (25.00%) ETL
5 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
6 18 (22.50%) Data Modelling
7 17 (21.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 16 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 15 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (18.75%) Validation
10 14 (17.50%) DevOps
11 13 (16.25%) Dashboard Development
11 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (13.75%) Actionable Insight
13 10 (12.50%) Data Protection
14 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning
14 9 (11.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 41 (51.25%) Python
2 27 (33.75%) SQL
3 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.00%) Bash
4 4 (5.00%) Java
5 3 (3.75%) Bicep
5 3 (3.75%) C#
6 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.50%) VBA
7 1 (1.25%) COBOL
7 1 (1.25%) Perl
7 1 (1.25%) R
7 1 (1.25%) Scala
7 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) GRC
3 1 (1.25%) PERC
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.75%) Terraform
5 1 (1.25%) Control-M
5 1 (1.25%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) Splunk
2 12 (15.00%) Databricks
2 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.75%) Google
4 5 (6.25%) Infor
5 3 (3.75%) Alibaba
5 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.75%) Teradata
6 1 (1.25%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.25%) IBM
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle
6 1 (1.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) Workday