Data Analyst Contracts in South Yorkshire

Data Analyst
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Data Analyst daily rate in South Yorkshire is £145, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 45 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 11 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.95% 2.41% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 2.64% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £135 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -75.83% +50.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £324 - £425
90th Percentile £538 - £433
Yorkshire median daily rate £350 £425 £480
% change year-on-year -17.65% -11.46% +12.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 339 416 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.03% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 261 343
10th Percentile £185 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £658
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.31 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in South Yorkshire

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in South Yorkshire

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in South Yorkshire

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in South Yorkshire

Data Analyst
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 Data Analyst within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 0 6 £320 -46.67% 7
Rotherham - 5 £145 -
Data Analyst
Yorkshire

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) ETL
2 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (72.73%) Data Analysis
2 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
2 8 (72.73%) Data Quality
2 8 (72.73%) ETL Development
2 8 (72.73%) Data Strategy
2 8 (72.73%) Decision-Making
2 8 (72.73%) Technical Debt
3 7 (63.64%) GCP
4 5 (45.45%) Looker
4 5 (45.45%) Google
5 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
5 4 (36.36%) Power BI
6 3 (27.27%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) BigQuery
7 2 (18.18%) QA
7 2 (18.18%) TestRail
7 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Azure
7 2 (18.18%) AWS
7 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
7 2 (18.18%) Project Management
7 2 (18.18%) Migration
7 2 (18.18%) JIRA
7 2 (18.18%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
8 1 (9.09%) Snowflake

Data Analyst Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (45.45%) Looker
3 4 (36.36%) Power BI
4 3 (27.27%) BigQuery
5 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
6 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) TestRail
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) ETL
2 8 (72.73%) Data Analysis
2 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
2 8 (72.73%) Data Strategy
2 8 (72.73%) Decision-Making
2 8 (72.73%) ETL Development
2 8 (72.73%) Technical Debt
3 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Data Management
5 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Data Science
5 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks