Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
13 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 257 231 146
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.97% 15.37% 9.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.68% 16.46% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 138 97
10th Percentile £263 £271 £188
25th Percentile £340 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £537 £475 £519
90th Percentile £600 £525 £547
England median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 8
10th Percentile £22.20 £17.39 £14.59
25th Percentile £23.33 £17.79 £15.98
Median hourly rate £26.37 £22.14 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.08% +26.51% -11.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - £18.98
England median hourly rate £25.50 £22.14 £18.00
% change year-on-year +15.18% +23.00% -7.74%

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 2,654 1,403 1,355
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 93.35% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 895 857
10th Percentile £318 £263 £288
25th Percentile £411 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £657 £613 £650
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 56 53
10th Percentile £16.62 £17.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.18 £18.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +5.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £38.97 £38.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £81.25 £48.75
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +7.66%

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 13 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst 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 13 August 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 -8 135 £425 -4.49% 90
South Yorkshire -18 97 £425 +11.84% 32
North Yorkshire -6 15 £475 +18.75% 13
East Yorkshire -10 2 - - 14
Humberside - 1 £413 - 15
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 August 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 64 (24.90%) Agile
1 64 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (15.18%) Workshop Facilitation
3 38 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (13.62%) Microsoft
5 35 (13.62%) SQL
5 35 (13.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 31 (12.06%) Power Platform
7 30 (11.67%) Actionable Insight
8 28 (10.89%) Analytics
8 28 (10.89%) Power BI
8 28 (10.89%) Requirements Gathering
9 27 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (10.12%) DevOps
11 25 (9.73%) Decision-Making
12 24 (9.34%) Azure
12 24 (9.34%) Data Analysis
13 21 (8.17%) Process Improvement
14 20 (7.78%) Acceptance Criteria
14 20 (7.78%) AI
14 20 (7.78%) User Stories
15 19 (7.39%) Python
16 18 (7.00%) Business Analysis
16 18 (7.00%) Degree
16 18 (7.00%) ERP
16 18 (7.00%) Validation
17 17 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
17 17 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
17 17 (6.61%) Security Cleared

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 14 (5.45%) Confluence
2 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.17%) SAS
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) Camunda
4 1 (0.39%) CICS
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.11%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.28%) SystmOne
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.78%) Primavera
2 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MRS
3 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.06%) Power Platform
2 24 (9.34%) Azure
3 14 (5.45%) AWS
4 10 (3.89%) GCP
5 7 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.56%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.17%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.78%) Alation
10 2 (0.78%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.78%) Collibra
10 2 (0.78%) GitHub
10 2 (0.78%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (0.78%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.39%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) VoIP
2 2 (0.78%) Firewall
2 2 (0.78%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.78%) VLAN
2 2 (0.78%) VPN
2 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.78%) Wireless
3 1 (0.39%) Broadband
3 1 (0.39%) DNS
3 1 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.39%) LAN
3 1 (0.39%) NAS
3 1 (0.39%) SAN
3 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.39%) SSL
3 1 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.89%) Power BI
2 12 (4.67%) Tableau
3 11 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.11%) Metadata
5 4 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.17%) Big Data
6 3 (1.17%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.78%) Looker
7 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.78%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.39%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.39%) Db2
8 1 (0.39%) GIS
8 1 (0.39%) Power Query
8 1 (0.39%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (6.23%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Postman
3 1 (0.39%) Selenium
3 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 72 (28.02%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (25.68%) Finance
4 36 (14.01%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.73%) Banking
6 16 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.50%) Legal
7 9 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.72%) Retail
9 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.95%) Law
10 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Marketing
12 3 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Back Office
13 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.78%) Front Office
13 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.95%) STL
2 4 (1.56%) LDAP
3 3 (1.17%) .NET
3 3 (1.17%) REST
4 2 (0.78%) Middleware
4 2 (0.78%) PySpark
5 1 (0.39%) FHIR
5 1 (0.39%) JSON
5 1 (0.39%) Kafka
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.39%) Playwright
5 1 (0.39%) pytest
5 1 (0.39%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.12%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.50%) NHS
5 6 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.17%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.78%) Equities
9 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Social Media
9 2 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.67%) Windows
2 3 (1.17%) Android
2 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.90%) Agile
1 64 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (15.18%) Workshop Facilitation
3 38 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (13.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 30 (11.67%) Actionable Insight
7 28 (10.89%) Analytics
7 28 (10.89%) Requirements Gathering
8 27 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (10.12%) DevOps
10 25 (9.73%) Decision-Making
11 24 (9.34%) Data Analysis
12 21 (8.17%) Process Improvement
13 20 (7.78%) Acceptance Criteria
13 20 (7.78%) AI
13 20 (7.78%) User Stories
14 18 (7.00%) Business Analysis
14 18 (7.00%) ERP
14 18 (7.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.62%) SQL
2 19 (7.39%) Python
3 8 (3.11%) R
4 4 (1.56%) Java
5 3 (1.17%) C#
5 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.39%) COBOL
7 1 (0.39%) JCL
7 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (7.00%) Degree
2 17 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (4.28%) DBS Check
4 10 (3.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.78%) CCNA
5 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (0.78%) IIBA
5 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.39%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) CCNP
6 1 (0.39%) CISSP
6 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.39%) MCSE
6 1 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.23%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.45%) PMO
3 11 (4.28%) QA
4 5 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.95%) GDPR
5 3 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.17%) GRC
5 3 (1.17%) NIST
5 3 (1.17%) SLA
6 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (0.78%) MiFID
6 2 (0.78%) P3O
7 1 (0.39%) GxP
7 1 (0.39%) HL7
System Software
1 10 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.39%) Ansible
2 1 (0.39%) Autotask
2 1 (0.39%) CASB
2 1 (0.39%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 1 (0.39%) MobiControl
2 1 (0.39%) QRadar
2 1 (0.39%) SCCM
2 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.61%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.45%) Oracle
4 7 (2.72%) Google
4 7 (2.72%) SAP
4 7 (2.72%) Splunk
5 3 (1.17%) Adobe
5 3 (1.17%) Databricks
5 3 (1.17%) Foundry
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco
6 2 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.78%) Facebook
6 2 (0.78%) HP
6 2 (0.78%) IFS
6 2 (0.78%) Informatica
6 2 (0.78%) NEC
6 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.78%) Teradata
6 2 (0.78%) Workday
7 1 (0.39%) Tanium
154 Analyst jobs in Yorkshire