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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 36 47
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 60 12 9
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 5.95% 3.39% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 3.56% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 9 5
10th Percentile £325 £468 £428
25th Percentile £402 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £613 -
90th Percentile £620 £661 £629
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%

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 933 337 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 92.56% 95.20% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 217 225
10th Percentile £350 £226 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile £15.27 £16.08 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.29 £17.38 £12.63
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +37.60% +24.46%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.36 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.07 £18.45 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.19 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +9.19% +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 5 April 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 5 April 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 59 £463 -21.28% 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 11 (18.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.00%) SAS
4 1 (1.67%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) Power Platform
3 10 (16.67%) AWS
3 10 (16.67%) GCP
4 8 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Storage
6 3 (5.00%) GitHub
6 3 (5.00%) Google Analytics
6 3 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.67%) Collibra
7 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.67%) IaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (1.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.67%) DHCP
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
1 1 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (1.67%) Network Security
1 1 (1.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.33%) Power BI
2 10 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 8 (13.33%) Hadoop
3 8 (13.33%) Power Query
3 8 (13.33%) PowerPivot
4 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.00%) Big Data
5 3 (5.00%) Metadata
6 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Parquet
6 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 32 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (36.67%) Finance
4 18 (30.00%) Banking
5 6 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.67%) Marketing
8 3 (5.00%) Legal
8 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Advertising
10 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Analyst
2 16 (26.67%) Lead
3 12 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Strategy Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) Data Analyst
6 6 (10.00%) Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Consultant
7 4 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Data Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Hadoop Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Lead Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Project Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Python Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Lead Data Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Apache Avro
1 8 (13.33%) Kafka
1 8 (13.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 7 (11.67%) JSON
2 7 (11.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (6.67%) Middleware
4 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.67%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.67%) CSS
5 1 (1.67%) JSON Schema
5 1 (1.67%) Pandas
5 1 (1.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 4 (6.67%) IoT
3 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.67%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.67%) Social Media
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (36.67%) Data Modelling
3 20 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 19 (31.67%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
6 17 (28.33%) ETL
7 16 (26.67%) Agile
8 15 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (23.33%) Actionable Insight
9 14 (23.33%) Decision-Making
10 13 (21.67%) AI
10 13 (21.67%) CI/CD
10 13 (21.67%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (20.00%) Validation
12 11 (18.33%) Data Governance
12 11 (18.33%) Risk Analytics
13 10 (16.67%) Data Extraction
13 10 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (61.67%) Python
2 25 (41.67%) SQL
3 9 (15.00%) VBA
4 3 (5.00%) Bash
4 3 (5.00%) Bicep
4 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) R
5 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) PMO
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) GRC
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
3 4 (6.67%) Terraform
4 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.67%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Splunk
2 10 (16.67%) Google
3 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.67%) Databricks
5 3 (5.00%) Alibaba
5 3 (5.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (5.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.00%) Teradata
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) F5
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.67%) NetScout
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) SevOne
6 1 (1.67%) VMware