Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 200 93 226
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.27% 9.35% 12.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.21% 10.22% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 57 148
10th Percentile £272 £140 £160
25th Percentile £313 £213 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £519 £450 £538
90th Percentile £545 £530 £600
England median daily rate £451 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.16% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £17.02 £14.45 -
25th Percentile £17.10 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.85 £20.57 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +64.15% -32.99%
75th Percentile £19.23 £28.75 £16.90
90th Percentile £19.68 £30.37 £19.94
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.54 £18.00
% change year-on-year -26.66% +36.35% +5.88%

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 1,784 910 1,687
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 91.46% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 544 1,075
10th Percentile £277 £213 £227
25th Percentile £400 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -5.26% -8.65%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 33 47
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £11.11
25th Percentile £17.10 £17.08 £12.53
Median hourly rate £29.68 £22.50 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +31.91% +31.93% -21.59%
75th Percentile £56.94 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £42.30 £53.75
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
% change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +5 99 £450 +8.11% 50
South Yorkshire -12 85 £375 +72.66% 32
North Yorkshire +5 13 £406 -22.62% 25
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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 57 (28.50%) Agile
2 53 (26.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 43 (21.50%) Power Platform
5 41 (20.50%) Power BI
6 38 (19.00%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (17.50%) SQL
9 33 (16.50%) Business Analysis
10 31 (15.50%) Data Analysis
11 30 (15.00%) Migration
12 27 (13.50%) Requirements Gathering
13 26 (13.00%) Decision-Making
13 26 (13.00%) JIRA
13 26 (13.00%) Workshop Facilitation
14 24 (12.00%) Analytics
14 24 (12.00%) Data Governance
15 23 (11.50%) DevOps
15 23 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
15 23 (11.50%) Process Improvement
15 23 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (11.00%) Confluence
16 22 (11.00%) Microsoft
17 21 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
18 20 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
18 20 (10.00%) Python
18 20 (10.00%) User Stories
19 19 (9.50%) Security Cleared
20 18 (9.00%) Data Modelling
20 18 (9.00%) Waterfall

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 (11.00%) Confluence
2 15 (7.50%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.00%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 50 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (5.50%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.50%) Power Platform
2 23 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (7.00%) Azure
4 11 (5.50%) GitHub
5 8 (4.00%) AWS
6 6 (3.00%) GCP
6 6 (3.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.50%) OCI
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.50%) Figma
9 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.50%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.50%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.50%) IBM Blueworks
9 1 (0.50%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.50%) Miro
9 1 (0.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.00%) Firewall
3 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.00%) DHCP
4 2 (1.00%) DNS
4 2 (1.00%) Internet
4 2 (1.00%) X.25
5 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.50%) Network Security
5 1 (0.50%) VLAN
5 1 (0.50%) VoIP
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (20.50%) Power BI
2 12 (6.00%) Power Query
3 9 (4.50%) PowerPivot
4 5 (2.50%) Metadata
4 5 (2.50%) Tableau
5 4 (2.00%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.00%) GIS
7 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.00%) MS Access
7 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.50%) QlikView
8 1 (0.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (13.00%) JIRA
2 13 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.00%) Git
4 2 (1.00%) Selenium
5 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.50%) JMeter
5 1 (0.50%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) PVCS
5 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (50.50%) Social Skills
2 71 (35.50%) Finance
3 48 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (20.00%) Banking
5 18 (9.00%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.50%) Legal
7 9 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.50%) Retail
8 7 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.00%) Billing
9 4 (2.00%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.50%) Military
10 3 (1.50%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.00%) Anaconda
2 3 (1.50%) FHIR
3 2 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.00%) SOAP
4 1 (0.50%) ADO
4 1 (0.50%) CSS
4 1 (0.50%) HTML
4 1 (0.50%) Kafka
4 1 (0.50%) LDAP
4 1 (0.50%) Middleware
4 1 (0.50%) PySpark
4 1 (0.50%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.00%) NHS
3 9 (4.50%) Mainframe
4 8 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.00%) CMDB
5 6 (3.00%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.50%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.50%) FMCG
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.00%) Windows
2 4 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (28.50%) Agile
2 53 (26.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (19.00%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (16.50%) Business Analysis
6 31 (15.50%) Data Analysis
7 30 (15.00%) Migration
8 27 (13.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 26 (13.00%) Decision-Making
9 26 (13.00%) Workshop Facilitation
10 24 (12.00%) Analytics
10 24 (12.00%) Data Governance
11 23 (11.50%) DevOps
11 23 (11.50%) Process Improvement
11 23 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (10.00%) User Stories
14 18 (9.00%) Data Modelling
14 18 (9.00%) Waterfall
15 17 (8.50%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.50%) SQL
2 20 (10.00%) Python
3 10 (5.00%) VBA
4 1 (0.50%) C#
4 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.50%) Java
4 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (9.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.50%) Degree
3 14 (7.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (1.50%) GCIA
4 3 (1.50%) GCIH
4 3 (1.50%) GIAC
4 3 (1.50%) SSCP
5 2 (1.00%) CBAP
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.00%) PMO
3 8 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.00%) NIST
5 5 (2.50%) GRC
6 4 (2.00%) SLA
7 3 (1.50%) GDPR
7 3 (1.50%) HL7
7 3 (1.50%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.00%) QA
9 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (6.50%) Ansible
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) Nessus
3 2 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.00%) Sonatype
3 7 (3.50%) Rapid7
4 6 (3.00%) Apple
5 5 (2.50%) HP
5 5 (2.50%) MobileIron
5 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.00%) SAP
6 4 (2.00%) Splunk
7 3 (1.50%) Databricks
7 3 (1.50%) Google
7 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.00%) Dell
8 2 (1.00%) Intel
8 2 (1.00%) Tenable
8 2 (1.00%) Teradata
8 2 (1.00%) VMware
9 1 (0.50%) Adobe
9 1 (0.50%) Brio
9 1 (0.50%) IBM