Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £387, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 244 124 272
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.55% 9.25% 14.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.66% 10.17% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 80 178
10th Percentile £271 £147 £180
25th Percentile £311 £227 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £395 £456
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -13.42% +1.39%
75th Percentile £481 £488 £530
90th Percentile £538 £527 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 4
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.65 £16.56
25th Percentile £17.63 £16.25 £18.41
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.07 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year +22.54% -14.00% +0.04%
75th Percentile - £22.69 £21.47
90th Percentile - £28.75 £21.77
England median hourly rate £20.79 £26.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year -20.42% +37.50% +10.85%

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 1,664 1,219 1,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 90.90% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,127 702 1,171
10th Percentile £242 £220 £230
25th Percentile £375 £380 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -3.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 51 28
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.22 £14.79
25th Percentile £21.30 £18.57 £18.18
Median hourly rate £25.58 £24.18 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +11.66% +6.20%
75th Percentile £81.25 £40.13 £27.60
90th Percentile - £48.75 £44.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.94
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.93% +53.13%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +11 127 £375 +72.66% 26
West Yorkshire 0 90 £433 +2.37% 65
North Yorkshire +1 16 £363 +61.11% 19
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 6
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, 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 59 (24.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (23.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (22.13%) Agile
5 51 (20.90%) Microsoft
6 42 (17.21%) Power Platform
7 41 (16.80%) Decision-Making
7 41 (16.80%) SQL
8 40 (16.39%) Power BI
9 38 (15.57%) Data Analysis
10 36 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (14.34%) JIRA
12 34 (13.93%) Confluence
13 32 (13.11%) Azure
13 32 (13.11%) Business Analysis
14 31 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (11.07%) ITIL
15 27 (11.07%) MS Visio
16 26 (10.66%) Analytics
16 26 (10.66%) Process Improvement
16 26 (10.66%) Requirements Gathering
17 25 (10.25%) Visualisation
18 24 (9.84%) Migration
19 23 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
19 23 (9.43%) Service Management
20 22 (9.02%) DevOps
21 21 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
21 21 (8.61%) Python
21 21 (8.61%) Workshop Facilitation
22 20 (8.20%) Actionable Insight

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 34 (13.93%) Confluence
2 19 (7.79%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 59 (24.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (11.07%) MS Visio
3 20 (8.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 42 (17.21%) Power Platform
2 32 (13.11%) Azure
3 21 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (8.20%) AWS
5 16 (6.56%) GCP
6 9 (3.69%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.46%) GitHub
7 6 (2.46%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.46%) SaaS
8 4 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.23%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.23%) OCI
10 2 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.41%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.74%) Firewall
2 6 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.23%) VPN
5 2 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.82%) DHCP
5 2 (0.82%) DNS
5 2 (0.82%) Internet
5 2 (0.82%) Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) Broadband
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.41%) Network Security
6 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (16.39%) Power BI
2 16 (6.56%) Power Query
3 10 (4.10%) Tableau
4 7 (2.87%) PowerPivot
5 5 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.64%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.64%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.82%) Metadata
8 2 (0.82%) MS Access
9 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.41%) QlikView
9 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.41%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (14.34%) JIRA
2 10 (4.10%) SoapUI
3 9 (3.69%) Postman
4 8 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.23%) Selenium
7 2 (0.82%) Git
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) PVCS
8 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 123 (50.41%) Social Skills
2 91 (37.30%) Finance
3 62 (25.41%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (16.39%) Banking
5 17 (6.97%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.10%) Police
8 9 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.28%) Legal
10 7 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.05%) Local Government
13 4 (1.64%) Billing
13 4 (1.64%) Retail
14 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.23%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (0.82%) Military
15 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.41%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.64%) Anaconda
1 4 (1.64%) SAML
2 3 (1.23%) JSON
2 3 (1.23%) OAuth
2 3 (1.23%) OpenID
2 3 (1.23%) PySpark
3 2 (0.82%) FHIR
3 2 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (0.82%) SOAP
4 1 (0.41%) ADO
4 1 (0.41%) Kafka
4 1 (0.41%) LDAP
4 1 (0.41%) Middleware
4 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.41%) REST
4 1 (0.41%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Web Services
4 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.30%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.69%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.46%) CMDB
4 6 (2.46%) NHS
4 6 (2.46%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.64%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.64%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.82%) Equities
6 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.82%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.82%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.97%) Windows
2 5 (2.05%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (23.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (22.13%) Agile
4 41 (16.80%) Decision-Making
5 38 (15.57%) Data Analysis
6 36 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (13.11%) Business Analysis
8 31 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (11.07%) ITIL
10 26 (10.66%) Analytics
10 26 (10.66%) Process Improvement
10 26 (10.66%) Requirements Gathering
11 25 (10.25%) Visualisation
12 24 (9.84%) Migration
13 23 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (9.43%) Service Management
14 22 (9.02%) DevOps
15 21 (8.61%) Workshop Facilitation
16 20 (8.20%) Actionable Insight
16 20 (8.20%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (16.80%) SQL
2 21 (8.61%) Python
3 8 (3.28%) VBA
4 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.41%) Bash
5 1 (0.41%) C#
5 1 (0.41%) Java
5 1 (0.41%) R
5 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (5.33%) Degree
2 11 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.28%) CISSP
4 7 (2.87%) CISM
4 7 (2.87%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.46%) CISMP
5 6 (2.46%) GSEC
5 6 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.64%) GCIH
7 3 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.23%) GCIA
7 3 (1.23%) GIAC
7 3 (1.23%) SSCP
8 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.82%) CBAP
9 1 (0.41%) ACCA
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.41%) IIBA
9 1 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.74%) Data Quality
1 14 (5.74%) GDPR
2 13 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.92%) PMO
3 12 (4.92%) SLA
4 11 (4.51%) NIST
5 8 (3.28%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.64%) QA
7 3 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.23%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.82%) GRC
8 2 (0.82%) HL7
9 1 (0.41%) COSHH
9 1 (0.41%) P3O
9 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 20 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.28%) Ansible
2 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.33%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.10%) CyberArk
3 10 (4.10%) Google
4 8 (3.28%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (3.28%) Thycotic
5 6 (2.46%) SAP
5 6 (2.46%) Sonatype
6 5 (2.05%) Apple
6 5 (2.05%) HP
6 5 (2.05%) MobileIron
6 5 (2.05%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.05%) Splunk
7 4 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.23%) Alibaba
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco
9 2 (0.82%) Databricks
9 2 (0.82%) F5
9 2 (0.82%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce