Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 225 150 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.49% 9.98% 14.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.60% 11.10% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 98 211
10th Percentile £263 £209 £177
25th Percentile £313 £329 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £482 £519 £547
90th Percentile £537 £550 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 5
10th Percentile £17.36 £16.14 £12.73
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £15.32
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £19.89
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -11.99% -6.42%
75th Percentile - £19.31 £21.31
90th Percentile - £24.25 -
England median hourly rate £22.05 £19.79 £19.00
% change year-on-year +11.45% +4.13% +11.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,442 1,351 2,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 89.89% 96.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 820 1,307
10th Percentile £220 £281 £250
25th Percentile £369 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £605
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 57 37
10th Percentile £17.27 £15.20 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.10 £18.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 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
South Yorkshire +31 112 £378 +65.93% 34
West Yorkshire -4 84 £443 -1.67% 64
North Yorkshire -2 16 £294 -34.72% 22
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 8
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, 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 Yorkshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 108 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 77 (34.22%) Finance
3 55 (24.44%) Agile
4 52 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (21.33%) Microsoft
6 48 (21.33%) Microsoft Excel
7 47 (20.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (16.89%) Power Platform
9 37 (16.44%) Decision-Making
10 36 (16.00%) Power BI
11 35 (15.56%) SQL
11 35 (15.56%) Business Analysis
12 34 (15.11%) Data Analysis
12 34 (15.11%) Confluence
13 32 (14.22%) JIRA
14 31 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (13.78%) ITIL
15 30 (13.33%) Banking
15 30 (13.33%) Visualisation
16 29 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (12.89%) Data Centre
17 28 (12.44%) Azure
18 25 (11.11%) MS Visio
19 21 (9.33%) Service Management
19 21 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
19 21 (9.33%) Requirements Gathering
20 20 (8.89%) Data Visualisation
21 19 (8.44%) Scrum
22 18 (8.00%) Asset Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 34 (15.11%) Confluence
2 15 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (21.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (11.11%) MS Visio
3 14 (6.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (16.89%) Power Platform
2 28 (12.44%) Azure
3 16 (7.11%) AWS
4 15 (6.67%) GCP
4 15 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.33%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.22%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.22%) SaaS
7 3 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.33%) Azure AKS
7 3 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.33%) Lucidchart
8 2 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.89%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.89%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.89%) Firewall
2 4 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.33%) VPN
4 2 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.89%) Wireless
5 1 (0.44%) Broadband
5 1 (0.44%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.44%) Internet
5 1 (0.44%) Network Security
5 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.00%) Power BI
2 12 (5.33%) Power Query
2 12 (5.33%) Tableau
3 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.33%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.44%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.44%) Metadata
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Parquet
6 1 (0.44%) QlikView
6 1 (0.44%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (14.22%) JIRA
2 10 (4.44%) SoapUI
3 9 (4.00%) Postman
4 2 (0.89%) Selenium
5 1 (0.44%) Git
5 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 108 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 77 (34.22%) Finance
3 52 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.33%) Banking
5 18 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.44%) Police
9 8 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.11%) Retail
11 6 (2.67%) Local Government
12 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.78%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.33%) Billing
13 3 (1.33%) Law
13 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.89%) Legal
15 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.44%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.22%) SAML
2 4 (1.78%) JSON
2 4 (1.78%) OAuth
2 4 (1.78%) OpenID
3 3 (1.33%) PySpark
4 2 (0.89%) Anaconda
4 2 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.44%) Kafka
5 1 (0.44%) LDAP
5 1 (0.44%) Middleware
5 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.44%) REST
5 1 (0.44%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.44%) SOAP
5 1 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.89%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.89%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.11%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.78%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.78%) CMDB
6 4 (1.78%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.78%) NHS
7 3 (1.33%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.33%) Equities
7 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.89%) Derivative
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.89%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.89%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.89%) Windows
2 4 (1.78%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.33%) Linux
4 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.44%) Agile
2 50 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (20.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (16.44%) Decision-Making
5 35 (15.56%) Business Analysis
6 34 (15.11%) Data Analysis
7 31 (13.78%) ITIL
7 31 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 30 (13.33%) Visualisation
9 29 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (9.33%) Requirements Gathering
10 21 (9.33%) Service Management
10 21 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 20 (8.89%) Data Visualisation
12 19 (8.44%) Scrum
13 18 (8.00%) Asset Management
14 17 (7.56%) Analytics
14 17 (7.56%) Migration
14 17 (7.56%) Process Improvement
15 16 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.56%) SQL
2 15 (6.67%) Python
3 3 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.89%) R
4 2 (0.89%) VBA
5 1 (0.44%) Bash
5 1 (0.44%) Java
5 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.33%) Degree
2 12 (5.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.56%) CISSP
4 7 (3.11%) CISM
4 7 (3.11%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.67%) CISMP
5 6 (2.67%) GSEC
6 3 (1.33%) CBAP
7 2 (0.89%) GCIH
8 1 (0.44%) ACCA
8 1 (0.44%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) GCIA
8 1 (0.44%) GIAC
8 1 (0.44%) IIBA
8 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.78%) GDPR
3 11 (4.89%) PMO
4 10 (4.44%) SLA
5 7 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.11%) NIST
6 6 (2.67%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.89%) QA
10 1 (0.44%) COSHH
10 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.44%) P3O
10 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.89%) Ansible
3 2 (0.89%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (0.89%) NetBackup
3 2 (0.89%) Terraform
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.33%) Google
4 10 (4.44%) CyberArk
4 10 (4.44%) SolarWinds
5 8 (3.56%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (3.56%) Thycotic
6 7 (3.11%) SAP
7 4 (1.78%) Splunk
8 3 (1.33%) Alibaba
8 3 (1.33%) Databricks
9 2 (0.89%) Cisco
9 2 (0.89%) Dell
9 2 (0.89%) F5
9 2 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle
9 2 (0.89%) Veritas
10 1 (0.44%) Apple
10 1 (0.44%) IBM
10 1 (0.44%) Toshiba