Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 217 100 190
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.23% 11.19% 10.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.20% 12.12% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 63 122
10th Percentile £264 £135 £150
25th Percentile £315 £211 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £519 £483 £500
90th Percentile £550 £538 £563
England median daily rate £460 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 5
10th Percentile £17.12 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £17.35 £17.44 -
Median hourly rate £17.99 £22.14 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +76.70% -35.36%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.95 £15.23
90th Percentile £19.25 £28.75 £19.27
England median hourly rate £17.87 £24.66 £16.40
% change year-on-year -27.53% +50.37% -9.47%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,937 825 1,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.28% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 515 1,031
10th Percentile £300 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £334 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £569
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 27 52
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.84 £11.12
25th Percentile £16.37 £17.08 £12.25
Median hourly rate £29.68 £22.14 £13.98
Median % change year-on-year +34.06% +58.37% -36.45%
75th Percentile £56.94 £28.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £63.56 £53.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year - +2.31% -15.53%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Analyst job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Yorkshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Yorkshire

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Yorkshire

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 March 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
West Yorkshire +9 115 £450 +9.76% 62
South Yorkshire -20 93 £383 +64.87% 27
North Yorkshire -3 12 £406 -22.62% 15
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 2 March 2026, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 66 (30.41%) Agile
2 54 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (17.97%) Microsoft Excel
5 36 (16.59%) Migration
6 35 (16.13%) Business Analysis
6 35 (16.13%) Data Analysis
7 34 (15.67%) DevOps
8 32 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 31 (14.29%) SQL
10 30 (13.82%) Workshop Facilitation
11 29 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (12.90%) Process Improvement
13 27 (12.44%) JIRA
13 27 (12.44%) Power BI
13 27 (12.44%) Security Cleared
14 26 (11.98%) Decision-Making
15 25 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (11.52%) Data Governance
15 25 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
16 24 (11.06%) Analytics
16 24 (11.06%) Requirements Gathering
17 23 (10.60%) Microsoft
18 22 (10.14%) Confluence
18 22 (10.14%) Data Extraction
19 21 (9.68%) Degree
19 21 (9.68%) User Stories
20 20 (9.22%) Actionable Insight
20 20 (9.22%) GAP Analysis

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 22 (10.14%) Confluence
2 10 (4.61%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 39 (17.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (7.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (4.61%) MS Visio
5 6 (2.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.46%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.46%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 25 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (6.91%) Azure
3 15 (6.91%) GitHub
4 8 (3.69%) AWS
5 4 (1.84%) GCP
5 4 (1.84%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.38%) OCI
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.92%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.92%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.46%) Collibra
8 1 (0.46%) Figma
8 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.46%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.46%) IBM Blueworks
8 1 (0.46%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.46%) Miro
8 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.30%) Firewall
3 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.92%) DHCP
4 2 (0.92%) DNS
4 2 (0.92%) Internet
4 2 (0.92%) VLAN
4 2 (0.92%) VPN
4 2 (0.92%) X.25
5 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.46%) NAS
5 1 (0.46%) SAN
5 1 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.44%) Power BI
2 8 (3.69%) Power Query
2 8 (3.69%) PowerPivot
3 7 (3.23%) Metadata
4 5 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.38%) Tableau
6 2 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.92%) GIS
6 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.92%) MS Access
6 2 (0.92%) QlikView
7 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.46%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.46%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (12.44%) JIRA
2 16 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.91%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.92%) Git
5 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.46%) JMeter
5 1 (0.46%) Postman
5 1 (0.46%) PVCS
5 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 114 (52.53%) Social Skills
2 75 (34.56%) Finance
3 59 (27.19%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (21.66%) Banking
5 22 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.53%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.23%) Legal
8 7 (3.23%) Retail
9 4 (1.84%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Digital Health
10 3 (1.38%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.38%) Marketing
10 3 (1.38%) Military
10 3 (1.38%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.30%) FHIR
2 4 (1.84%) Anaconda
3 2 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.46%) ADO
4 1 (0.46%) CSS
4 1 (0.46%) HTML
4 1 (0.46%) Kafka
4 1 (0.46%) Middleware
4 1 (0.46%) PySpark
4 1 (0.46%) REST
4 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.46%) SOAP
4 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.99%) Data Centre
1 13 (5.99%) NHS
2 10 (4.61%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.23%) Credit Risk
3 7 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.30%) CMDB
5 4 (1.84%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.38%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.92%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.46%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.46%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.46%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.46%) SCADA
8 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.46%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.37%) Windows
2 4 (1.84%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Linux
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.41%) Agile
2 54 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (16.59%) Migration
5 35 (16.13%) Business Analysis
5 35 (16.13%) Data Analysis
6 34 (15.67%) DevOps
7 32 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (13.82%) Workshop Facilitation
9 29 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 28 (12.90%) Process Improvement
11 26 (11.98%) Decision-Making
12 25 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (11.52%) Data Governance
13 24 (11.06%) Analytics
13 24 (11.06%) Requirements Gathering
14 22 (10.14%) Data Extraction
15 21 (9.68%) User Stories
16 20 (9.22%) Actionable Insight
16 20 (9.22%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.29%) SQL
2 18 (8.29%) Python
3 9 (4.15%) VBA
4 3 (1.38%) Java
5 1 (0.46%) C#
5 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.46%) Korn
5 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (12.44%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.68%) Degree
3 18 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (1.38%) GCIA
5 3 (1.38%) GCIH
5 3 (1.38%) GIAC
5 3 (1.38%) SSCP
6 2 (0.92%) CBAP
7 1 (0.46%) CCNA
7 1 (0.46%) CCNP
7 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.46%) CISSP
7 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.69%) PMO
3 7 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.30%) GRC
4 5 (2.30%) HL7
4 5 (2.30%) NIST
5 4 (1.84%) QA
6 3 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.38%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.38%) SLA
7 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.92%) GDPR
8 1 (0.46%) GxP
8 1 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 14 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (7.83%) Ansible
2 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.92%) Nessus
4 2 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.45%) Sonatype
3 8 (3.69%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.23%) Rapid7
4 7 (3.23%) Splunk
5 6 (2.76%) Apple
6 5 (2.30%) HP
6 5 (2.30%) MobileIron
7 4 (1.84%) SAP
8 3 (1.38%) Databricks
8 3 (1.38%) Google
8 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.38%) Teradata
9 2 (0.92%) Dell
9 2 (0.92%) Intel
9 2 (0.92%) Tenable
9 2 (0.92%) VMware
10 1 (0.46%) Adobe
10 1 (0.46%) Cisco
10 1 (0.46%) IBM