Analyst Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analyst
England > Yorkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Yorkshire is £439, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 191 93 226
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.78% 9.68% 12.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.70% 10.53% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 56 151
10th Percentile £273 £139 £163
25th Percentile £334 £213 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £395 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.14% -12.22% -
75th Percentile £519 £456 £530
90th Percentile £550 £531 £595
England median daily rate £451 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -5.16% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £14.45 -
25th Percentile - £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £16.97 £20.57 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -17.49% +64.15% -32.99%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £16.90
90th Percentile - £30.37 £19.94
England median hourly rate £18.29 £24.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -25.37% +36.11% +5.88%

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 1,785 883 1,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 91.88% 93.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 523 1,068
10th Percentile £280 £213 £227
25th Percentile £400 £350 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -8.65%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 50
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.57 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.97 £16.87 £12.53
Median hourly rate £31.86 £23.34 £16.58
Median % change year-on-year +36.50% +40.75% -24.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £42.40 £53.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

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 28 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 28 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 99 £450 +9.76% 52
South Yorkshire -18 77 £390 +79.57% 26
North Yorkshire +4 13 £406 -22.62% 16
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 (29.32%) Agile
2 52 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (22.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 37 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (18.85%) Power Platform
6 34 (17.80%) Business Analysis
7 33 (17.28%) Migration
7 33 (17.28%) Power BI
8 32 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (15.18%) SQL
10 27 (14.14%) Requirements Gathering
11 26 (13.61%) Data Analysis
11 26 (13.61%) JIRA
11 26 (13.61%) Workshop Facilitation
12 25 (13.09%) DevOps
12 25 (13.09%) Process Improvement
13 24 (12.57%) Data Governance
13 24 (12.57%) Decision-Making
13 24 (12.57%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (11.52%) Confluence
14 22 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (10.99%) Analytics
15 21 (10.99%) Microsoft
15 21 (10.99%) User Stories
16 19 (9.95%) Data Extraction
16 19 (9.95%) Security Cleared
17 18 (9.42%) Data Modelling
17 18 (9.42%) GAP Analysis
17 18 (9.42%) Python

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 22 (11.52%) Confluence
2 13 (6.81%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.05%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 43 (22.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (8.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (5.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (18.85%) Power Platform
2 24 (12.57%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.85%) Azure
4 13 (6.81%) GitHub
5 9 (4.71%) AWS
6 6 (3.14%) GCP
7 5 (2.62%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.57%) OCI
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.05%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.52%) Collibra
10 1 (0.52%) Figma
10 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.52%) IBM Blueworks
10 1 (0.52%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.52%) Miro
10 1 (0.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.09%) Firewall
3 3 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.05%) DHCP
4 2 (1.05%) DNS
4 2 (1.05%) Internet
4 2 (1.05%) X.25
5 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) VLAN
5 1 (0.52%) VoIP
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.28%) Power BI
2 10 (5.24%) Power Query
3 9 (4.71%) PowerPivot
4 5 (2.62%) Metadata
5 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.09%) Tableau
6 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.05%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.05%) GIS
7 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.05%) MS Access
7 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (13.61%) JIRA
2 15 (7.85%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.05%) Git
4 2 (1.05%) Selenium
5 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.52%) JMeter
5 1 (0.52%) Postman
5 1 (0.52%) PVCS
5 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.55%) Finance
3 43 (22.51%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (21.47%) Banking
5 17 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.24%) Retail
8 8 (4.19%) Legal
9 5 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.09%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.57%) Military
11 3 (1.57%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Billing
12 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.05%) Marketing
12 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.09%) Anaconda
2 3 (1.57%) FHIR
3 2 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.05%) 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%) PySpark
4 1 (0.52%) REST
4 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.71%) NHS
3 8 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.14%) CMDB
4 6 (3.14%) Credit Risk
5 5 (2.62%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.52%) FMCG
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.38%) Windows
2 4 (2.09%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.32%) Agile
2 52 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (17.80%) Business Analysis
5 33 (17.28%) Migration
6 32 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (14.14%) Requirements Gathering
8 26 (13.61%) Data Analysis
8 26 (13.61%) Workshop Facilitation
9 25 (13.09%) DevOps
9 25 (13.09%) Process Improvement
10 24 (12.57%) Data Governance
10 24 (12.57%) Decision-Making
10 24 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (10.99%) Analytics
12 21 (10.99%) User Stories
13 19 (9.95%) Data Extraction
14 18 (9.42%) Data Modelling
14 18 (9.42%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.18%) SQL
2 18 (9.42%) Python
3 9 (4.71%) 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%) Korn
4 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (9.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.38%) Degree
3 14 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (1.57%) GCIA
4 3 (1.57%) GCIH
4 3 (1.57%) GIAC
4 3 (1.57%) SSCP
5 2 (1.05%) CBAP
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.24%) PMO
3 8 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.14%) NIST
5 5 (2.62%) GRC
6 3 (1.57%) GDPR
6 3 (1.57%) HL7
6 3 (1.57%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.57%) SLA
7 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.05%) QA
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (7.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.05%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (7.85%) Ansible
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) Nessus
3 2 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) Sonatype
3 7 (3.66%) Rapid7
4 6 (3.14%) Apple
5 5 (2.62%) HP
5 5 (2.62%) MobileIron
5 5 (2.62%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.62%) Splunk
6 4 (2.09%) SAP
7 3 (1.57%) Databricks
7 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.05%) Dell
8 2 (1.05%) Google
8 2 (1.05%) Intel
8 2 (1.05%) Tenable
8 2 (1.05%) Teradata
8 2 (1.05%) VMware
9 1 (0.52%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.52%) Qualys
9 1 (0.52%) Tradeweb