Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 211 120 178
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.58% 13.03% 10.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.41% 13.92% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 73 106
10th Percentile £265 £137 £150
25th Percentile £323 £232 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +2.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £519 £475 £500
90th Percentile £550 £536 £559
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 6
10th Percentile £17.12 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £17.35 £19.28 £12.53
Median hourly rate £17.99 £21.69 £13.52
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% +60.49% -30.28%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.14 £15.62
90th Percentile £19.25 £30.37 £18.86
England median hourly rate £17.94 £24.66 £16.30
% change year-on-year -27.27% +51.29% -16.41%

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 2,027 862 1,591
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.59% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 562 976
10th Percentile £308 £220 £200
25th Percentile £400 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £560
90th Percentile £644 £625 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 31 60
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.30 £11.17
25th Percentile £16.57 £16.79 £12.46
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.20
Median % change year-on-year +100.09% +49.55% -47.88%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 £53.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +2 125 £450 +9.09% 102
South Yorkshire -23 80 £390 -2.50% 27
North Yorkshire -7 10 £406 -12.16% 19
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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 65 (30.81%) Agile
2 52 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (17.06%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (17.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 34 (16.11%) Migration
5 32 (15.17%) DevOps
5 32 (15.17%) Power Platform
6 31 (14.69%) Data Analysis
6 31 (14.69%) Workshop Facilitation
7 30 (14.22%) Business Analysis
8 29 (13.74%) SQL
9 28 (13.27%) Power BI
10 26 (12.32%) Decision-Making
10 26 (12.32%) JIRA
10 26 (12.32%) Process Improvement
10 26 (12.32%) Security Cleared
11 23 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (10.90%) User Stories
12 22 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (10.43%) Data Extraction
12 22 (10.43%) Data Governance
12 22 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (9.95%) Actionable Insight
13 21 (9.95%) Analytics
13 21 (9.95%) GAP Analysis
14 20 (9.48%) Confluence
14 20 (9.48%) Degree
14 20 (9.48%) Microsoft
15 19 (9.00%) Waterfall

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 20 (9.48%) Confluence
2 10 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.42%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 36 (17.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (3.79%) MS Visio
5 6 (2.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.95%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.47%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (15.17%) Power Platform
2 22 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.11%) GitHub
4 14 (6.64%) Azure
5 8 (3.79%) AWS
6 4 (1.90%) GCP
7 3 (1.42%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.42%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.95%) OCI
8 2 (0.95%) SaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.47%) Collibra
9 1 (0.47%) Figma
9 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.47%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.90%) Firewall
3 3 (1.42%) DNS
4 2 (0.95%) DHCP
4 2 (0.95%) Internet
4 2 (0.95%) VLAN
4 2 (0.95%) X.25
5 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.47%) NAS
5 1 (0.47%) SAN
5 1 (0.47%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.47%) VoIP
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.27%) Power BI
2 8 (3.79%) Power Query
2 8 (3.79%) PowerPivot
3 6 (2.84%) Metadata
3 6 (2.84%) Tableau
4 5 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.95%) GIS
6 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.95%) MS Access
6 2 (0.95%) QlikView
7 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 26 (12.32%) JIRA
2 16 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.95%) Git
5 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.47%) JMeter
5 1 (0.47%) Postman
5 1 (0.47%) PVCS
5 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 107 (50.71%) Social Skills
2 69 (32.70%) Finance
3 59 (27.96%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (19.43%) Banking
5 25 (11.85%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.27%) Retail
8 7 (3.32%) Legal
9 4 (1.90%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.42%) Digital Health
10 3 (1.42%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.42%) Marketing
10 3 (1.42%) Military
11 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.95%) Law
11 2 (0.95%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.37%) FHIR
2 2 (0.95%) Anaconda
2 2 (0.95%) Middleware
3 1 (0.47%) ADO
3 1 (0.47%) CSS
3 1 (0.47%) HTML
3 1 (0.47%) Kafka
3 1 (0.47%) REST
3 1 (0.47%) SOAP
3 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.64%) NHS
2 10 (4.74%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.74%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.37%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.95%) CMDB
7 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.47%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.47%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.47%) SCADA
8 1 (0.47%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.11%) Windows
2 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.47%) Android
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (30.81%) Agile
2 52 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (17.06%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (16.11%) Migration
5 32 (15.17%) DevOps
6 31 (14.69%) Data Analysis
6 31 (14.69%) Workshop Facilitation
7 30 (14.22%) Business Analysis
8 26 (12.32%) Decision-Making
8 26 (12.32%) Process Improvement
9 23 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (10.90%) User Stories
10 22 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (10.43%) Data Extraction
10 22 (10.43%) Data Governance
11 21 (9.95%) Actionable Insight
11 21 (9.95%) Analytics
11 21 (9.95%) GAP Analysis
12 19 (9.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.74%) SQL
2 15 (7.11%) Python
3 9 (4.27%) VBA
4 3 (1.42%) Java
5 1 (0.47%) C#
5 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.47%) Korn
5 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.48%) Degree
3 18 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (0.95%) CBAP
6 2 (0.95%) CCNA
6 2 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.95%) GCIA
6 2 (0.95%) GCIH
6 2 (0.95%) GIAC
6 2 (0.95%) SSCP
7 1 (0.47%) CCNP
7 1 (0.47%) CISSP
7 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.74%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.27%) PMO
3 6 (2.84%) GRC
3 6 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.37%) HL7
4 5 (2.37%) QA
5 4 (1.90%) GDPR
5 4 (1.90%) NIST
6 3 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.95%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.95%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (7.11%) Ansible
2 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.95%) Nessus
3 2 (0.95%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) CASB
Vendors
1 20 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.64%) Sonatype
3 8 (3.79%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.84%) Apple
4 6 (2.84%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.37%) Google
5 5 (2.37%) HP
5 5 (2.37%) MobileIron
5 5 (2.37%) Splunk
6 4 (1.90%) SAP
7 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.42%) Teradata
8 2 (0.95%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) Dell
8 2 (0.95%) Intel
8 2 (0.95%) Tenable
8 2 (0.95%) VMware
9 1 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.47%) Workday
9 1 (0.47%) Zscaler