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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 83 30 16
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.17% 5.11% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.30% 5.39% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 19 10
10th Percentile £369 £284 £468
25th Percentile £413 £311 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £490 £514
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.58% +0.69%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £584
90th Percentile £603 £613 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £450 £511
% change year-on-year +2.72% -11.89% -7.51%

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 1,000 557 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 86.36% 94.89% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 367 230
10th Percentile £362 £285 £353
25th Percentile £425 £370 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £507
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -8.68% -12.77%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £580
90th Percentile £675 £625 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 14
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £13.17 £17.33 £12.55
Median hourly rate £18.30 £18.36 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +43.08% -34.21%
75th Percentile £22.20 £18.87 £21.13
90th Percentile £24.29 - £21.85
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
% change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -32.31%

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 July 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 July 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 +5 80 £501 -3.70% 11
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 18 (21.69%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.43%) Confluence
3 3 (3.61%) Apache
3 3 (3.61%) SAS
4 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.51%) Azure
2 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.43%) GitHub
4 7 (8.43%) OpenShift
5 6 (7.23%) GCP
6 5 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.82%) AWS
8 3 (3.61%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.20%) Collibra
10 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) Big Data
2 9 (10.84%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.64%) Hadoop
3 8 (9.64%) Power BI
4 4 (4.82%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.61%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.41%) Metadata
6 2 (2.41%) Spark SQL
6 2 (2.41%) Trino
7 1 (1.20%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.20%) Parquet
7 1 (1.20%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.20%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.43%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (33.73%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.28%) Finance
4 10 (12.05%) Banking
5 7 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.82%) Marketing
8 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Advertising
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Data Engineer
2 15 (18.07%) Lead
3 13 (15.66%) Analyst
4 6 (7.23%) Data Analyst
5 5 (6.02%) Developer
5 5 (6.02%) Python Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Senior
5 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Consultant
6 4 (4.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.61%) Administrator
7 3 (3.61%) Data Consultant
7 3 (3.61%) Hadoop Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Lead Consultant
7 3 (3.61%) Mobile Product Manager
7 3 (3.61%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) Product Owner
7 3 (3.61%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) Kafka
2 8 (9.64%) Apache Avro
2 8 (9.64%) Protocol Buffers
3 7 (8.43%) JSON
3 7 (8.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (7.23%) PySpark
5 5 (6.02%) REST
6 3 (3.61%) CSS
7 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.41%) HTML
7 2 (2.41%) React
8 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.20%) JSON Schema
8 1 (1.20%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.23%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.61%) Blog
4 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.41%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.41%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.41%) Social Media
6 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
1 2 (2.41%) Unix
2 1 (1.20%) Solaris
2 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.94%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (33.73%) AI
3 27 (32.53%) Data Engineering
3 27 (32.53%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (31.33%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (25.30%) Agile
5 21 (25.30%) CI/CD
5 21 (25.30%) ETL
6 19 (22.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 18 (21.69%) Data Modelling
8 16 (19.28%) Visualisation
9 15 (18.07%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (18.07%) DevOps
10 14 (16.87%) Validation
11 13 (15.66%) Data Protection
12 12 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (14.46%) Dashboard Development
12 12 (14.46%) Observability
12 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (13.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.19%) Python
2 26 (31.33%) SQL
3 6 (7.23%) Java
4 5 (6.02%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.82%) C#
6 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.41%) Bash
7 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.20%) Bicep
8 1 (1.20%) COBOL
8 1 (1.20%) Perl
8 1 (1.20%) R
8 1 (1.20%) Scala
8 1 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (6.02%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) PERC
3 1 (1.20%) PMO
3 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
1 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.82%) Ansible
3 4 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.61%) Terraform
5 1 (1.20%) Control-M
5 1 (1.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Databricks
1 16 (19.28%) Splunk
2 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.23%) Google
4 5 (6.02%) Infor
5 2 (2.41%) Teradata
6 1 (1.20%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.20%) Alibaba
6 1 (1.20%) IBM
6 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) Workday