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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 235 227 145
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 8.11% 14.17% 9.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.79% 15.36% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 143 94
10th Percentile £258 £272 £209
25th Percentile £358 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £523 £488 £519
90th Percentile £591 £538 £545
England median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £22.20 £17.36 £16.14
25th Percentile £23.33 £17.48 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.37 £22.14 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.08% +26.51% -15.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £24.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £20.71 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.23% -3.11% +12.47%

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 2,672 1,478 1,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 92.26% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,586 977 797
10th Percentile £344 £235 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -3.29%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £669 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 40 55
10th Percentile £14.16 £17.46 £14.77
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.79 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +5.72% +5.58%
75th Percentile £34.77 £81.25 £40.63
90th Percentile £36.61 - £48.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.44%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -1 115 £425 +6.25% 185
South Yorkshire -21 91 £420 +9.95% 55
North Yorkshire -8 14 £500 +70.21% 29
East Yorkshire -7 2 - - 13
Humberside - 1 £413 - 7
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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 56 (23.83%) Agile
2 47 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (16.60%) Workshop Facilitation
4 36 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 35 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (14.89%) SQL
6 34 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (14.47%) Microsoft
7 31 (13.19%) Requirements Gathering
8 28 (11.91%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (11.91%) Power Platform
9 27 (11.49%) Acceptance Criteria
9 27 (11.49%) Power BI
10 26 (11.06%) Analytics
10 26 (11.06%) User Stories
11 24 (10.21%) Actionable Insight
12 23 (9.79%) Process Improvement
13 22 (9.36%) Data Analysis
13 22 (9.36%) SDLC
14 21 (8.94%) Azure
14 21 (8.94%) Decision-Making
14 21 (8.94%) DevOps
14 21 (8.94%) ServiceNow
15 20 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
15 20 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
16 19 (8.09%) Business Analysis
16 19 (8.09%) JIRA
16 19 (8.09%) Validation
17 18 (7.66%) AI
18 17 (7.23%) 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 16 (6.81%) Confluence
2 4 (1.70%) SAS
3 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) CICS
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 20 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (4.26%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.98%) SystmOne
2 6 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.85%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.85%) Primavera
4 2 (0.85%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.85%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.43%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.91%) Power Platform
2 21 (8.94%) Azure
3 12 (5.11%) AWS
4 8 (3.40%) GCP
4 8 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.98%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.70%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (1.28%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.28%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.85%) Alation
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Databricks
8 2 (0.85%) Collibra
8 2 (0.85%) GitHub
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.85%) VoIP
2 2 (0.85%) Wireless
3 1 (0.43%) Broadband
3 1 (0.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) LAN
3 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.43%) VLAN
3 1 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.49%) Power BI
2 13 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.40%) Tableau
4 7 (2.98%) Metadata
5 6 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.70%) Power Query
7 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.28%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.85%) Big Data
8 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.85%) GIS
8 2 (0.85%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.43%) Db2
9 1 (0.43%) Looker
9 1 (0.43%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 19 (8.09%) JIRA
2 2 (0.85%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (0.85%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.43%) Appium
3 1 (0.43%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.43%) Postman
3 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 73 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.53%) Finance
3 51 (21.70%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (14.04%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.21%) Banking
6 19 (8.09%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.83%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.40%) Retail
9 6 (2.55%) Legal
10 5 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.13%) Marketing
11 4 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.28%) Law
13 2 (0.85%) Back Office
13 2 (0.85%) Billing
13 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.85%) Front Office
13 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.85%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.70%) LDAP
1 4 (1.70%) STL
2 2 (0.85%) .NET
2 2 (0.85%) PySpark
2 2 (0.85%) REST
3 1 (0.43%) JSON
3 1 (0.43%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.11%) NHS
3 10 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.70%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.70%) CMDB
6 4 (1.70%) Replication
6 4 (1.70%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.28%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.85%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.85%) Life Science
8 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.85%) Social Media
8 2 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.40%) Windows
2 2 (0.85%) Android
2 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.83%) Agile
2 47 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (16.60%) Workshop Facilitation
4 36 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 35 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (13.19%) Requirements Gathering
8 28 (11.91%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (11.49%) Acceptance Criteria
10 26 (11.06%) Analytics
10 26 (11.06%) User Stories
11 24 (10.21%) Actionable Insight
12 23 (9.79%) Process Improvement
13 22 (9.36%) Data Analysis
13 22 (9.36%) SDLC
14 21 (8.94%) Decision-Making
14 21 (8.94%) DevOps
15 20 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
16 19 (8.09%) Business Analysis
16 19 (8.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.89%) SQL
2 15 (6.38%) Python
3 6 (2.55%) R
4 4 (1.70%) Java
5 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.85%) C#
6 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.43%) COBOL
7 1 (0.43%) JCL
7 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (6.38%) Degree
2 11 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (4.68%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.98%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.13%) IIBA
6 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.43%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) CAPM
7 1 (0.43%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) GSEC
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.43%) MCSE
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.38%) PMO
2 15 (6.38%) QA
3 5 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.13%) GRC
4 3 (1.28%) GDPR
4 3 (1.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) MiFID
5 2 (0.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) COSHH
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) P3O
System Software
1 11 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.85%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) Autotask
1 1 (0.43%) Control-M
1 1 (0.43%) Forefront Identity Manager
1 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.43%) MobiControl
1 1 (0.43%) QRadar
1 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.94%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.26%) Oracle
4 9 (3.83%) SAP
5 6 (2.55%) Databricks
6 5 (2.13%) Google
6 5 (2.13%) Splunk
7 3 (1.28%) Adobe
7 3 (1.28%) BMC
7 3 (1.28%) Teradata
8 2 (0.85%) ESRI
8 2 (0.85%) Facebook
8 2 (0.85%) HP
8 2 (0.85%) IFS
8 2 (0.85%) Informatica
8 2 (0.85%) NEC
8 2 (0.85%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.85%) Workday
9 1 (0.43%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.43%) Xerox