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 10 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 261 233 146
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.12% 15.32% 9.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.83% 16.41% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 139 97
10th Percentile £263 £272 £188
25th Percentile £350 £314 £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 £18.32
% change year-on-year +15.18% +20.85% -5.49%

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 2,656 1,420 1,350
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 93.36% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 907 858
10th Percentile £318 £263 £288
25th Percentile £413 £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 £653 £613 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 54 51
10th Percentile £16.62 £17.27 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.20 £18.39 £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 £29.34 £38.13
90th Percentile £43.75 £81.25 £48.75
England median hourly rate £42.65 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.58% -43.78% +5.88%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -8 138 £425 -4.49% 78
South Yorkshire -16 97 £425 +11.84% 34
North Yorkshire -5 16 £475 +18.75% 9
East Yorkshire -9 2 - - 14
Humberside - 1 £413 - 14
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 67 (25.67%) Agile
2 64 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (14.94%) Workshop Facilitation
4 38 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (14.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 37 (14.18%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (13.41%) SQL
7 33 (12.64%) Microsoft
8 31 (11.88%) Power Platform
9 30 (11.49%) Actionable Insight
9 30 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (11.11%) Analytics
11 28 (10.73%) Power BI
12 27 (10.34%) Data Analysis
12 27 (10.34%) DevOps
12 27 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
13 26 (9.96%) Decision-Making
14 25 (9.58%) Azure
15 21 (8.05%) Process Improvement
15 21 (8.05%) User Stories
16 20 (7.66%) Acceptance Criteria
16 20 (7.66%) AI
17 19 (7.28%) Python
17 19 (7.28%) Security Cleared
18 18 (6.90%) Business Analysis
18 18 (6.90%) Degree
18 18 (6.90%) Validation
19 17 (6.51%) Cybersecurity
19 17 (6.51%) Data Quality
19 17 (6.51%) ERP

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 (5.36%) Confluence
2 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.15%) SAS
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) Camunda
4 1 (0.38%) CICS
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.07%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.21%) SystmOne
2 2 (0.77%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.77%) Primavera
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.88%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.58%) Azure
3 14 (5.36%) AWS
4 10 (3.83%) GCP
5 6 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (1.92%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.53%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.15%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.77%) Alation
9 2 (0.77%) Azure AI
9 2 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.77%) Collibra
9 2 (0.77%) GitHub
9 2 (0.77%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (0.77%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.77%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.38%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) VoIP
2 2 (0.77%) Firewall
2 2 (0.77%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.77%) VPN
2 2 (0.77%) 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 (10.73%) Power BI
2 12 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (4.60%) Tableau
3 9 (3.45%) Metadata
4 4 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.15%) Big Data
5 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.77%) Looker
6 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.77%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.38%) Db2
7 1 (0.38%) Power Query
7 1 (0.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (6.13%) JIRA
2 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) Postman
3 1 (0.38%) Selenium
3 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 73 (27.97%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (25.67%) Finance
4 37 (14.18%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.58%) Banking
6 16 (6.13%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.45%) Legal
7 9 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.68%) Retail
9 6 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.92%) Law
10 5 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Marketing
12 3 (1.15%) Military
12 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Back Office
13 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.77%) Front Office
13 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.92%) STL
2 3 (1.15%) .NET
2 3 (1.15%) LDAP
2 3 (1.15%) REST
3 2 (0.77%) Middleware
3 2 (0.77%) PySpark
4 1 (0.38%) FHIR
4 1 (0.38%) JSON
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%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.96%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.45%) NHS
4 8 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.15%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.77%) Equities
9 2 (0.77%) Life Science
9 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Social Media
9 2 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.83%) Windows
2 2 (0.77%) Android
2 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.67%) Agile
2 64 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (14.94%) Workshop Facilitation
4 38 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (14.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 37 (14.18%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (11.49%) Actionable Insight
6 30 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (11.11%) Analytics
8 27 (10.34%) Data Analysis
8 27 (10.34%) DevOps
8 27 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
9 26 (9.96%) Decision-Making
10 21 (8.05%) Process Improvement
10 21 (8.05%) User Stories
11 20 (7.66%) Acceptance Criteria
11 20 (7.66%) AI
12 18 (6.90%) Business Analysis
12 18 (6.90%) Validation
13 17 (6.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.41%) SQL
2 19 (7.28%) Python
3 8 (3.07%) R
4 7 (2.68%) Java
5 3 (1.15%) C#
5 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.38%) COBOL
7 1 (0.38%) JCL
7 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (7.28%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.90%) Degree
3 11 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (4.21%) DBS Check
3 11 (4.21%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.77%) CCNA
4 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (0.77%) IIBA
4 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.38%) CAPM
5 1 (0.38%) CCNP
5 1 (0.38%) CISSP
5 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.38%) GSEC
5 1 (0.38%) MCSE
5 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.36%) PMO
3 12 (4.60%) QA
4 5 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.92%) GDPR
5 3 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.15%) GRC
5 3 (1.15%) NIST
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (0.77%) MiFID
6 2 (0.77%) P3O
7 1 (0.38%) GxP
7 1 (0.38%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Ansible
2 1 (0.38%) Autotask
2 1 (0.38%) CASB
2 1 (0.38%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 1 (0.38%) QRadar
2 1 (0.38%) SCCM
2 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.13%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.98%) Oracle
4 7 (2.68%) Google
4 7 (2.68%) Splunk
5 6 (2.30%) SAP
6 3 (1.15%) Adobe
6 3 (1.15%) Databricks
6 3 (1.15%) Foundry
6 3 (1.15%) Workday
7 2 (0.77%) Cisco
7 2 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.77%) Facebook
7 2 (0.77%) IFS
7 2 (0.77%) Informatica
7 2 (0.77%) NEC
7 2 (0.77%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.77%) Teradata
8 1 (0.38%) Concur
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype
141 Analyst jobs in Yorkshire