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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 41 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Analytics 35 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.49% 3.79% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 4.31% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 11
10th Percentile £292 £485 £400
25th Percentile £338 £507 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -13.33% +22.57%
75th Percentile £556 £619 £625
90th Percentile £665 £706 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -14.50% -8.33% +22.57%

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 609 394 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.45% 87.95% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 207 272
10th Percentile £295 £250 £376
25th Percentile £370 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £682
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -3 28 £490 -5.77% 15
Barnsley - 6 £278 - 1
Doncaster +8 1 £445 +36.92% 6
Analytics
Yorkshire

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (14.29%) Confluence
3 4 (11.43%) Apache
4 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Maple
2 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (14.29%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.71%) dbt
5 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.86%) Alation
6 1 (2.86%) Azure
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) Power BI
2 6 (17.14%) Tableau
3 5 (14.29%) Power Query
4 4 (11.43%) BigQuery
4 4 (11.43%) Data Mining
4 4 (11.43%) Looker
5 3 (8.57%) Apache Hive
5 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
5 3 (8.57%) HBase
5 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.71%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.86%) Ataccama
7 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.86%) Metadata
7 1 (2.86%) OLTP
7 1 (2.86%) QlikView
7 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.57%) Gradle
3 3 (8.57%) HP UFT
3 3 (8.57%) IntelliJ
3 3 (8.57%) JUnit
3 3 (8.57%) Maven
3 3 (8.57%) Selenium
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Banking
4 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Local Government
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Retail Finance
7 1 (2.86%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Hadoop Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Test Manager
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 Modeller
5 2 (5.71%) Data Visualisation Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Engagement Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Report Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Engagement Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Data Analytics Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Anaconda
1 3 (8.57%) PySpark
1 3 (8.57%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (2.86%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.86%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.86%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Credit Risk
2 3 (8.57%) Mainframe
2 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Decision-Making
2 11 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (28.57%) Data Analytics
4 9 (25.71%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (25.71%) Data Engineering
4 9 (25.71%) Visualisation
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) Agile
6 6 (17.14%) Data Governance
6 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
6 6 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (14.29%) Data Transformation
7 5 (14.29%) ETL
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.29%) Workflow
8 4 (11.43%) Business Case
8 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (11.43%) DevOps
8 4 (11.43%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.57%) VBA
5 2 (5.71%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) PMO
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) HDFS
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Ansible
1 3 (8.57%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (8.57%) Puppet
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Databricks
3 2 (5.71%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Cognos
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Talend