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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 193 96 235
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.35% 9.46% 13.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.26% 10.33% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 60 152
10th Percentile £270 £142 £163
25th Percentile £314 £227 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £508 £450 £530
90th Percentile £541 £526 £595
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £17.12 £13.85 £13.09
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.25 £13.93
Median hourly rate £18.73 £18.64 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +15.67% -13.85%
75th Percentile £21.24 £26.25 £19.43
90th Percentile £23.50 £28.75 £20.95
England median hourly rate £18.57 £23.35 £18.00
% change year-on-year -20.47% +29.72% +5.76%

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 1,714 929 1,682
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 91.53% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 555 1,069
10th Percentile £263 £216 £231
25th Percentile £381 £356 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -10.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £543 £556 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 35 43
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.79 £11.12
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.66 £12.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +14.29% -18.60%
75th Percentile £57.25 £33.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.10 £53.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.38% +24.04%

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 12 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 12 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 +6 95 £450 +9.76% 57
South Yorkshire -13 82 £372 +71.28% 18
North Yorkshire +4 11 £450 +20.00% 19
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 56 (29.02%) Agile
2 53 (27.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (26.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 47 (24.35%) Power Platform
5 45 (23.32%) Power BI
6 41 (21.24%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (18.13%) SQL
9 31 (16.06%) Business Analysis
9 31 (16.06%) Data Analysis
9 31 (16.06%) Decision-Making
10 27 (13.99%) Migration
10 27 (13.99%) Requirements Gathering
11 26 (13.47%) Workshop Facilitation
12 23 (11.92%) Data Governance
12 23 (11.92%) JIRA
12 23 (11.92%) Microsoft
12 23 (11.92%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (11.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (11.40%) Analytics
14 21 (10.88%) DevOps
14 21 (10.88%) Process Improvement
15 20 (10.36%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (10.36%) Python
16 19 (9.84%) Confluence
16 19 (9.84%) Data Modelling
17 18 (9.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
17 18 (9.33%) User Stories
17 18 (9.33%) Waterfall
18 17 (8.81%) 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 19 (9.84%) Confluence
2 16 (8.29%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 51 (26.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (9.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (5.70%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.35%) Power Platform
2 23 (11.92%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.77%) Azure
4 8 (4.15%) AWS
4 8 (4.15%) GitHub
5 6 (3.11%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.59%) GCP
7 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.55%) OCI
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.04%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.52%) Collibra
9 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.52%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.52%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.52%) IBM Blueworks
9 1 (0.52%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.52%) Miro
9 1 (0.52%) SaaS
9 1 (0.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.07%) Firewall
3 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.04%) DHCP
4 2 (1.04%) DNS
4 2 (1.04%) Internet
4 2 (1.04%) X.25
5 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) VLAN
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.32%) Power BI
2 13 (6.74%) Power Query
3 9 (4.66%) PowerPivot
4 7 (3.63%) Tableau
5 4 (2.07%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.55%) Metadata
6 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.04%) MS Access
8 1 (0.52%) GIS
8 1 (0.52%) QlikView
8 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (11.92%) JIRA
2 10 (5.18%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.04%) Postman
4 2 (1.04%) Selenium
4 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.52%) Git
5 1 (0.52%) JMeter
5 1 (0.52%) PVCS
5 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (49.74%) Social Skills
2 70 (36.27%) Finance
3 49 (25.39%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (18.65%) Banking
5 18 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.22%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.18%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.18%) Retail
8 8 (4.15%) Legal
9 6 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.07%) Billing
10 4 (2.07%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.55%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Local Government
12 2 (1.04%) Military
12 2 (1.04%) Police
12 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.07%) Anaconda
2 3 (1.55%) PySpark
3 2 (1.04%) FHIR
3 2 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.04%) SOAP
4 1 (0.52%) ADO
4 1 (0.52%) CSS
4 1 (0.52%) HTML
4 1 (0.52%) Kafka
4 1 (0.52%) LDAP
4 1 (0.52%) Middleware
4 1 (0.52%) REST
4 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.36%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.66%) Mainframe
3 7 (3.63%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.63%) NHS
4 6 (3.11%) CMDB
4 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.07%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.77%) Windows
2 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.02%) Agile
2 53 (27.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (21.24%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (16.06%) Business Analysis
5 31 (16.06%) Data Analysis
5 31 (16.06%) Decision-Making
6 27 (13.99%) Migration
6 27 (13.99%) Requirements Gathering
7 26 (13.47%) Workshop Facilitation
8 23 (11.92%) Data Governance
8 23 (11.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (11.40%) Analytics
10 21 (10.88%) DevOps
10 21 (10.88%) Process Improvement
11 20 (10.36%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (9.84%) Data Modelling
13 18 (9.33%) User Stories
13 18 (9.33%) Waterfall
14 17 (8.81%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.13%) SQL
2 20 (10.36%) Python
3 10 (5.18%) VBA
4 1 (0.52%) C#
4 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.52%) Java
4 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (7.77%) Degree
2 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (1.55%) GCIA
4 3 (1.55%) GCIH
4 3 (1.55%) GIAC
4 3 (1.55%) SSCP
5 2 (1.04%) CBAP
6 1 (0.52%) ACCA
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.18%) PMO
3 8 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.11%) NIST
5 5 (2.59%) SLA
6 4 (2.07%) GRC
7 3 (1.55%) GDPR
7 3 (1.55%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.04%) HL7
8 2 (1.04%) QA
9 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 14 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (5.18%) Ansible
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.63%) Sonatype
3 6 (3.11%) Apple
4 5 (2.59%) HP
4 5 (2.59%) MobileIron
4 5 (2.59%) Rapid7
4 5 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.07%) SAP
5 4 (2.07%) Splunk
6 3 (1.55%) Databricks
6 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.04%) Dell
7 2 (1.04%) Google
7 2 (1.04%) Intel
7 2 (1.04%) VMware
8 1 (0.52%) Adobe
8 1 (0.52%) Brio
8 1 (0.52%) Genesys
8 1 (0.52%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.52%) Tradeweb