Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 265 216 169
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.32% 16.06% 10.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.12% 17.17% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 132 112
10th Percentile £263 £263 £183
25th Percentile £350 £323 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £400 £444
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.86% -6.58%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £519
90th Percentile £600 £530 £545
England median daily rate £459 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 10
10th Percentile £20.35 £17.27 £13.18
25th Percentile £23.05 £20.38 £15.19
Median hourly rate £24.87 £22.14 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% +26.51% -11.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - £18.83
England median hourly rate £24.63 £23.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +7.07% +35.29% -10.53%

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 2,619 1,258 1,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 93.53% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,589 807 962
10th Percentile £318 £263 £263
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £670 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 48 62
10th Percentile £16.62 £16.43 £12.13
25th Percentile £22.08 £18.29 £13.31
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +21.18% -8.65%
75th Percentile £35.00 £25.12 £33.75
90th Percentile £48.50 £81.25 £48.75
England median hourly rate £46.73 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.89% -30.00% -6.98%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -7 147 £440 +2.03% 66
South Yorkshire -22 97 £428 +6.88% 27
North Yorkshire -9 15 £475 +61.70% 7
East Yorkshire -9 2 - - 9
Humberside - 1 £413 - 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 72 (27.17%) Agile
2 66 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (15.09%) Workshop Facilitation
4 39 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 37 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (13.96%) SQL
7 34 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (12.45%) DevOps
9 32 (12.08%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (12.08%) Analytics
9 32 (12.08%) Microsoft
9 32 (12.08%) Power Platform
10 30 (11.32%) Data Analysis
11 28 (10.57%) Power BI
12 27 (10.19%) Decision-Making
13 25 (9.43%) Azure
13 25 (9.43%) Requirements Gathering
13 25 (9.43%) Security Cleared
13 25 (9.43%) User Stories
14 23 (8.68%) Process Improvement
14 23 (8.68%) Validation
15 22 (8.30%) Business Analysis
15 22 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
16 21 (7.92%) Acceptance Criteria
17 20 (7.55%) AI
17 20 (7.55%) Migration
17 20 (7.55%) Python
18 19 (7.17%) Data Modelling
18 19 (7.17%) Degree

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 17 (6.42%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) SAS
3 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) CICS
Applications
1 22 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.02%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.15%) SystmOne
2 2 (0.75%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.75%) Primavera
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.08%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.43%) Azure
3 16 (6.04%) AWS
4 10 (3.77%) GCP
5 7 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (1.89%) GitHub
8 4 (1.51%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.51%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.13%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.75%) Alation
10 2 (0.75%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.75%) Collibra
10 2 (0.75%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (0.75%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.75%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.38%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) VoIP
2 2 (0.75%) Firewall
2 2 (0.75%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.75%) VPN
2 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.38%) Broadband
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.38%) LAN
3 1 (0.38%) NAS
3 1 (0.38%) SAN
3 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.38%) SSL
3 1 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.38%) VLAN
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
3 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.57%) Power BI
2 13 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.53%) Tableau
4 11 (4.15%) Metadata
5 4 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (1.51%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.13%) Big Data
6 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.13%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.13%) QlikView
7 2 (0.75%) Looker
7 2 (0.75%) Spark SQL
7 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.38%) Db2
8 1 (0.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (7.17%) JIRA
2 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 92 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 74 (27.92%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (27.55%) Finance
4 40 (15.09%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.57%) Banking
6 17 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.40%) Legal
8 7 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.26%) Marketing
9 6 (2.26%) Retail
10 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.89%) Law
10 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.13%) Military
11 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.89%) STL
2 3 (1.13%) FHIR
3 2 (0.75%) .NET
3 2 (0.75%) LDAP
3 2 (0.75%) Middleware
3 2 (0.75%) PySpark
3 2 (0.75%) REST
4 1 (0.38%) Kafka
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.38%) Playwright
4 1 (0.38%) pytest
4 1 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.28%) NHS
3 13 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.51%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.51%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.75%) Life Science
8 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.75%) Social Media
8 2 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.77%) Windows
2 2 (0.75%) Android
2 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (27.17%) Agile
2 66 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (15.09%) Workshop Facilitation
4 39 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 37 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
7 34 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (12.45%) DevOps
9 32 (12.08%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (12.08%) Analytics
10 30 (11.32%) Data Analysis
11 27 (10.19%) Decision-Making
12 25 (9.43%) Requirements Gathering
12 25 (9.43%) User Stories
13 23 (8.68%) Process Improvement
13 23 (8.68%) Validation
14 22 (8.30%) Business Analysis
15 21 (7.92%) Acceptance Criteria
16 20 (7.55%) AI
16 20 (7.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.96%) SQL
2 20 (7.55%) Python
3 8 (3.02%) R
4 5 (1.89%) Java
5 2 (0.75%) C#
5 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.38%) COBOL
6 1 (0.38%) JCL
6 1 (0.38%) Korn
6 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.17%) Degree
3 16 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.15%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.75%) CCNA
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (0.75%) IIBA
5 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.38%) CAPM
6 1 (0.38%) CCNP
6 1 (0.38%) CISSP
6 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) GSEC
6 1 (0.38%) MCSE
6 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.66%) PMO
3 12 (4.53%) QA
4 5 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.89%) GDPR
5 4 (1.51%) GRC
6 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.13%) HL7
6 3 (1.13%) NIST
7 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.75%) P3O
7 2 (0.75%) SLA
8 1 (0.38%) GxP
8 1 (0.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.51%) Ansible
2 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.75%) Nessus
3 1 (0.38%) Autotask
3 1 (0.38%) CASB
3 1 (0.38%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.38%) QRadar
3 1 (0.38%) SCCM
3 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.91%) Oracle
4 10 (3.77%) Splunk
5 7 (2.64%) Google
6 5 (1.89%) SAP
7 4 (1.51%) Sonatype
7 4 (1.51%) Teradata
8 3 (1.13%) Adobe
8 3 (1.13%) Databricks
8 3 (1.13%) Foundry
8 3 (1.13%) Workday
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco
9 2 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.75%) Facebook
9 2 (0.75%) IFS
9 2 (0.75%) Informatica
9 2 (0.75%) NEC
9 2 (0.75%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.75%) Rapid7