Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £444, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 184 102 217
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.22% 10.89% 11.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.15% 11.79% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 65 139
10th Percentile £278 £135 £150
25th Percentile £338 £213 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £410 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +2.50% -13.51%
75th Percentile £519 £475 £513
90th Percentile £550 £538 £578
England median daily rate £456 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.05 -
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £17.99 £18.64 £13.88
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +34.26% -25.78%
75th Percentile £18.87 £28.75 £16.48
90th Percentile £19.25 £29.83 £19.43
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.59 £17.64
% change year-on-year -26.78% +39.37% +3.76%

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 1,812 865 1,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 92.32% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 519 1,095
10th Percentile £290 £212 £219
25th Percentile £400 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% -11.06%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 55
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £11.14
25th Percentile £15.88 £16.25 £12.39
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £14.41
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +67.86% -33.77%
75th Percentile £56.31 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £42.30 £53.75
England median hourly rate £30.11 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.99% - -3.19%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +1 98 £450 +9.09% 49
South Yorkshire -26 74 £400 +75.05% 24
North Yorkshire -1 11 £363 -30.95% 10
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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 53 (28.80%) Agile
2 49 (26.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (22.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 34 (18.48%) Power Platform
5 33 (17.93%) Business Analysis
5 33 (17.93%) Migration
5 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.85%) Power BI
7 30 (16.30%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (16.30%) SQL
8 27 (14.67%) Data Analysis
8 27 (14.67%) JIRA
9 26 (14.13%) Process Improvement
9 26 (14.13%) Workshop Facilitation
10 25 (13.59%) Decision-Making
10 25 (13.59%) DevOps
11 24 (13.04%) Data Governance
11 24 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
12 23 (12.50%) Confluence
13 22 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (11.96%) User Stories
14 21 (11.41%) Analytics
14 21 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (10.87%) Data Extraction
15 20 (10.87%) Microsoft
16 19 (10.33%) GAP Analysis
16 19 (10.33%) Security Cleared
17 18 (9.78%) CI/CD
17 18 (9.78%) Data Modelling

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 23 (12.50%) Confluence
2 12 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.09%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 42 (22.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (8.15%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (5.43%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.54%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.48%) Power Platform
2 24 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (8.15%) Azure
4 14 (7.61%) GitHub
5 9 (4.89%) AWS
6 6 (3.26%) GCP
7 5 (2.72%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.63%) OCI
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.09%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.54%) Collibra
10 1 (0.54%) Figma
10 1 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.54%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.54%) IBM Blueworks
10 1 (0.54%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.54%) Miro
10 1 (0.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.17%) Firewall
3 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.09%) DHCP
4 2 (1.09%) DNS
4 2 (1.09%) Internet
4 2 (1.09%) X.25
5 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.54%) Network Security
5 1 (0.54%) VLAN
5 1 (0.54%) VoIP
5 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.85%) Power BI
2 9 (4.89%) Power Query
3 8 (4.35%) PowerPivot
4 5 (2.72%) Metadata
5 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.17%) Tableau
6 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.09%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.09%) GIS
7 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.09%) MS Access
7 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.09%) QlikView
7 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (14.67%) JIRA
2 16 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.09%) Git
4 2 (1.09%) Selenium
5 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.54%) JMeter
5 1 (0.54%) Postman
5 1 (0.54%) PVCS
5 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.54%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 61 (33.15%) Finance
3 42 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (22.83%) Banking
4 18 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.89%) Retail
7 8 (4.35%) Legal
8 5 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.17%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.63%) Military
10 3 (1.63%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (1.09%) Digital Health
11 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing
11 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.17%) Anaconda
1 4 (2.17%) FHIR
2 2 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (1.09%) SOAP
3 1 (0.54%) ADO
3 1 (0.54%) CSS
3 1 (0.54%) HTML
3 1 (0.54%) Kafka
3 1 (0.54%) LDAP
3 1 (0.54%) Middleware
3 1 (0.54%) PySpark
3 1 (0.54%) REST
3 1 (0.54%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.52%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.98%) NHS
3 7 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.26%) CMDB
4 6 (3.26%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.63%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.54%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.54%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.70%) Windows
2 4 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.80%) Agile
2 49 (26.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (17.93%) Business Analysis
3 33 (17.93%) Migration
3 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (16.30%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (14.67%) Data Analysis
6 26 (14.13%) Process Improvement
6 26 (14.13%) Workshop Facilitation
7 25 (13.59%) Decision-Making
7 25 (13.59%) DevOps
8 24 (13.04%) Data Governance
8 24 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
9 22 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (11.96%) User Stories
10 21 (11.41%) Analytics
10 21 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
11 20 (10.87%) Data Extraction
12 19 (10.33%) GAP Analysis
13 18 (9.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.30%) SQL
2 18 (9.78%) Python
3 9 (4.89%) VBA
4 1 (0.54%) C#
4 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.54%) Java
4 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.54%) Korn
4 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.24%) Degree
3 14 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (1.63%) GCIA
4 3 (1.63%) GCIH
4 3 (1.63%) GIAC
4 3 (1.63%) SSCP
5 2 (1.09%) CBAP
6 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.35%) PMO
3 7 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.72%) GRC
4 5 (2.72%) NIST
5 4 (2.17%) HL7
6 3 (1.63%) GDPR
6 3 (1.63%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.63%) QA
6 3 (1.63%) SLA
7 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.54%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (8.70%) Ansible
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.09%) Nessus
3 2 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.07%) Sonatype
3 7 (3.80%) Rapid7
4 6 (3.26%) Apple
4 6 (3.26%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.26%) Splunk
5 5 (2.72%) HP
5 5 (2.72%) MobileIron
6 4 (2.17%) SAP
7 3 (1.63%) Databricks
7 3 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.09%) Dell
8 2 (1.09%) Google
8 2 (1.09%) Intel
8 2 (1.09%) Tenable
8 2 (1.09%) Teradata
8 2 (1.09%) VMware
9 1 (0.54%) Brio
9 1 (0.54%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.54%) TOWER Software