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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 39 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +21
Contract jobs citing Analytics 35 17 17
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.76% 3.78% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 4.20% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 10
10th Percentile £292 £501 £400
25th Percentile £326 £507 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £528 £495
Median % change year-on-year -23.22% +6.57% +1.12%
75th Percentile £575 £655 £500
90th Percentile £675 £734 £658
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £530 £509
% change year-on-year -10.38% +4.23% +3.88%

All Process and 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 703 405 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.52% 90.00% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 209 225
10th Percentile £312 £220 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +9.95%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £650
90th Percentile £638 £651 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.63 £18.07 £21.31
% change year-on-year +30.80% -15.22% +12.16%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 -18 28 £440 -15.38% 18
Barnsley - 6 £278 - 2
Doncaster - 1 £445 - 5
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 6 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (11.43%) Apache
3 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
3 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.71%) Confluence
5 1 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (48.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Maple
2 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Power Platform
2 6 (17.14%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.71%) Azure
4 2 (5.71%) dbt
4 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.86%) Alation
5 1 (2.86%) AWS
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) BIG-IP
1 1 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.86%) DHCP
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (51.43%) Power BI
2 8 (22.86%) Power Query
3 6 (17.14%) Tableau
4 5 (14.29%) Data Mining
5 4 (11.43%) BigQuery
5 4 (11.43%) Looker
5 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.57%) Apache Hive
6 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
6 3 (8.57%) HBase
6 3 (8.57%) PowerPivot
7 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.71%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.86%) Ataccama
8 1 (2.86%) Metadata
8 1 (2.86%) OLTP
8 1 (2.86%) QlikView
8 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 14 (40.00%) Banking
4 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Data Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Finance Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Financial Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Hadoop Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Strategy Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Visualisation Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Report Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Anaconda
2 3 (8.57%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (5.71%) PySpark
4 1 (2.86%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Credit Risk
2 4 (11.43%) Mainframe
2 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) RSA SecurID
3 1 (2.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 11 (31.43%) Actionable Insight
3 10 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.71%) Data Engineering
4 9 (25.71%) Data Governance
4 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
4 9 (25.71%) Visualisation
5 7 (20.00%) Agile
6 6 (17.14%) Data Analysis
6 6 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (17.14%) Data Transformation
6 6 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (17.14%) Risk Analytics
6 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.29%) Budgeting
7 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
7 5 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Python
2 17 (48.57%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) VBA
4 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.71%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) PMO
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) HDFS
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (8.57%) Puppet
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Databricks
3 2 (5.71%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Cognos
4 1 (2.86%) F5
4 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.86%) NetScout
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) SevOne
4 1 (2.86%) Talend
4 1 (2.86%) VMware