Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 233 134 270
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.83% 9.47% 13.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.04% 10.47% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 84 189
10th Percentile £274 £185 £177
25th Percentile £313 £289 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £403 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -15.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £484 £496 £538
90th Percentile £538 £525 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 3
10th Percentile - - £16.52
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £18.32
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -17.88% +0.88%
75th Percentile - £20.56 -
90th Percentile - £28.25 -
England median hourly rate £20.79 £23.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -11.53% +23.68% +11.76%

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 1,549 1,280 1,902
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.46% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 740 1,248
10th Percentile £258 £232 £236
25th Percentile £378 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -3.41% +2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £648 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 54 33
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.22 £13.92
25th Percentile £19.85 £16.72 £17.22
Median hourly rate £25.04 £23.34 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +9.53% +11.63%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £41.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.37% +58.64%

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +24 119 £380 +70.79% 36
West Yorkshire -3 87 £400 -11.11% 71
North Yorkshire -1 14 £363 -21.62% 19
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 10
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 October 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 55 (23.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (21.46%) Agile
4 48 (20.60%) Microsoft
5 47 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (15.88%) Decision-Making
6 37 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 36 (15.45%) Power Platform
7 36 (15.45%) SQL
8 34 (14.59%) Data Analysis
8 34 (14.59%) Power BI
9 32 (13.73%) Confluence
9 32 (13.73%) JIRA
10 31 (13.30%) Azure
11 30 (12.88%) Business Analysis
12 27 (11.59%) ITIL
12 27 (11.59%) MS Visio
13 26 (11.16%) Requirements Gathering
14 25 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (10.73%) Visualisation
15 23 (9.87%) Service Management
16 22 (9.44%) Migration
16 22 (9.44%) Process Improvement
17 20 (8.58%) Analytics
17 20 (8.58%) Workshop Facilitation
18 18 (7.73%) Asset Management
18 18 (7.73%) AWS
18 18 (7.73%) Data Visualisation
18 18 (7.73%) DevOps
18 18 (7.73%) Microsoft Office

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 32 (13.73%) Confluence
2 16 (6.87%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 55 (23.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (11.59%) MS Visio
3 18 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (7.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.45%) Power Platform
2 31 (13.30%) Azure
3 18 (7.73%) AWS
4 17 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.44%) GCP
6 9 (3.86%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.58%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.58%) SaaS
8 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.29%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.29%) GitHub
9 3 (1.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.86%) OCI
11 1 (0.43%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.43%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.58%) Firewall
2 5 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.29%) VPN
5 2 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.86%) Wireless
6 1 (0.43%) Broadband
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.43%) Internet
6 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.43%) Network Security
6 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.59%) Power BI
2 13 (5.58%) Power Query
3 11 (4.72%) Tableau
4 6 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.72%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.29%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.86%) Metadata
7 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.43%) QlikView
8 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (13.73%) JIRA
2 10 (4.29%) SoapUI
3 9 (3.86%) Postman
4 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.29%) Selenium
5 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Git
6 1 (0.43%) JMeter
6 1 (0.43%) PVCS
6 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 117 (50.21%) Social Skills
2 88 (37.77%) Finance
3 51 (21.89%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.02%) Banking
5 16 (6.87%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.29%) Police
7 9 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.58%) Local Government
9 4 (1.72%) Billing
9 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Retail
10 3 (1.29%) Legal
10 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.86%) Law
11 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.72%) SAML
2 3 (1.29%) Anaconda
2 3 (1.29%) JSON
2 3 (1.29%) OAuth
2 3 (1.29%) OpenID
2 3 (1.29%) PySpark
3 2 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (0.86%) SOAP
4 1 (0.43%) ADO
4 1 (0.43%) Kafka
4 1 (0.43%) LDAP
4 1 (0.43%) Middleware
4 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.43%) REST
4 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Web Services
4 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.59%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.86%) Mainframe
4 6 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.58%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.72%) CMDB
5 4 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.72%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.72%) NHS
5 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.29%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.29%) Equities
6 3 (1.29%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.86%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.73%) Windows
2 5 (2.15%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (21.46%) Agile
3 47 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (15.88%) Decision-Making
4 37 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 34 (14.59%) Data Analysis
6 30 (12.88%) Business Analysis
7 27 (11.59%) ITIL
8 26 (11.16%) Requirements Gathering
9 25 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (10.73%) Visualisation
10 23 (9.87%) Service Management
11 22 (9.44%) Migration
11 22 (9.44%) Process Improvement
12 20 (8.58%) Analytics
12 20 (8.58%) Workshop Facilitation
13 18 (7.73%) Asset Management
13 18 (7.73%) Data Visualisation
13 18 (7.73%) DevOps
14 17 (7.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.45%) SQL
2 17 (7.30%) Python
3 4 (1.72%) VBA
4 2 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.86%) R
5 1 (0.43%) Bash
5 1 (0.43%) C#
5 1 (0.43%) Java
5 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (5.58%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.72%) Degree
3 10 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.43%) CISSP
5 7 (3.00%) CISM
5 7 (3.00%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.58%) CISMP
6 6 (2.58%) GSEC
7 3 (1.29%) GCIH
8 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.86%) CBAP
8 2 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.86%) GCIA
8 2 (0.86%) GIAC
8 2 (0.86%) SSCP
9 1 (0.43%) ACCA
9 1 (0.43%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.43%) IIBA
9 1 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.15%) GDPR
3 11 (4.72%) PMO
4 10 (4.29%) SLA
5 8 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.43%) NIST
6 7 (3.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.72%) QA
8 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.86%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.43%) COSHH
10 1 (0.43%) P3O
10 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.15%) Ansible
1 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (20.60%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.58%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.29%) CyberArk
3 10 (4.29%) Google
3 10 (4.29%) SolarWinds
4 8 (3.43%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (3.43%) SAP
4 8 (3.43%) Thycotic
5 5 (2.15%) Apple
5 5 (2.15%) HP
5 5 (2.15%) MobileIron
5 5 (2.15%) Splunk
6 3 (1.29%) Alibaba
6 3 (1.29%) Sonatype
7 2 (0.86%) Cisco
7 2 (0.86%) Databricks
7 2 (0.86%) F5
7 2 (0.86%) IBM
7 2 (0.86%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.86%) Rapid7