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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 246 125 188
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.10% 12.29% 11.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.02% 13.03% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 80 116
10th Percentile £263 £143 £160
25th Percentile £355 £309 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £411 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -8.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £519
90th Percentile £583 £529 £559
England median daily rate £450 £475 £486
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.26% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 6
10th Percentile £17.12 £16.40 -
25th Percentile £17.35 £17.33 £12.53
Median hourly rate £17.99 £21.24 £13.52
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +57.16% -26.20%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.14 £15.22
90th Percentile £19.25 £26.94 £15.49
England median hourly rate £20.75 £22.14 £16.00
% change year-on-year -6.28% +38.38% -17.95%

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 2,233 959 1,546
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 94.30% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 618 962
10th Percentile £313 £224 £233
25th Percentile £402 £358 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -1.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £629 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 34 65
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.00 £11.23
25th Percentile £19.13 £17.12 £12.25
Median hourly rate £27.75 £21.24 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% +51.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £57.25 £22.14 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £80.10 £51.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.78 £36.31
% change year-on-year +52.70% -15.22% -19.32%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +6 151 £450 +7.46% 49
South Yorkshire -23 82 £420 +5.00% 34
North Yorkshire -6 13 £450 +12.50% 15
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 81 (32.93%) Agile
2 63 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (19.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (18.70%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (15.85%) Power Platform
6 37 (15.04%) SQL
7 35 (14.23%) DevOps
7 35 (14.23%) Workshop Facilitation
8 34 (13.82%) Power BI
9 32 (13.01%) Security Cleared
10 31 (12.60%) Decision-Making
10 31 (12.60%) Microsoft Excel
10 31 (12.60%) Migration
11 30 (12.20%) Data Analysis
11 30 (12.20%) User Stories
12 29 (11.79%) Business Analysis
13 26 (10.57%) Actionable Insight
14 25 (10.16%) Analytics
14 25 (10.16%) Process Improvement
15 24 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.76%) Microsoft
16 23 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 22 (8.94%) Data Governance
17 22 (8.94%) Data Modelling
17 22 (8.94%) Degree
17 22 (8.94%) Python
18 21 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
18 21 (8.54%) SC Cleared
19 20 (8.13%) JIRA
19 20 (8.13%) Validation

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 14 (5.69%) Confluence
2 9 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (12.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.85%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.47%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.85%) Power Platform
2 18 (7.32%) Azure
3 15 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.88%) AWS
5 10 (4.07%) GitHub
6 5 (2.03%) GCP
7 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.22%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (1.22%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.22%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.22%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.81%) Azure AI
9 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.41%) Apigee
10 1 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.41%) Miro
10 1 (0.41%) OCI
10 1 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) VoIP
2 2 (0.81%) DNS
2 2 (0.81%) Firewall
2 2 (0.81%) X.25
3 1 (0.41%) DHCP
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
3 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.41%) NAS
3 1 (0.41%) SAN
3 1 (0.41%) SSL
3 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.41%) VLAN
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.82%) Power BI
2 11 (4.47%) Tableau
3 9 (3.66%) Metadata
4 6 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.03%) Power Query
5 5 (2.03%) PowerPivot
6 4 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.22%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.81%) GIS
8 2 (0.81%) MS Access
8 2 (0.81%) QlikView
9 1 (0.41%) Big Data
9 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.41%) Looker
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (8.13%) JIRA
2 12 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.81%) Git
5 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
General
1 94 (38.21%) Social Skills
2 67 (27.24%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (25.61%) Finance
4 38 (15.45%) Public Sector
5 34 (13.82%) Banking
6 14 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.47%) Legal
7 11 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.66%) Retail
9 6 (2.44%) Military
10 4 (1.63%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.22%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.22%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Marketing
11 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Law
12 2 (0.81%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.03%) FHIR
2 3 (1.22%) REST
2 3 (1.22%) STL
3 2 (0.81%) Middleware
4 1 (0.41%) .NET
4 1 (0.41%) Anaconda
4 1 (0.41%) CSS
4 1 (0.41%) HTML
4 1 (0.41%) Kafka
4 1 (0.41%) Playwright
4 1 (0.41%) pytest
4 1 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.32%) NHS
2 13 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.25%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.63%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.22%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.81%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.81%) CMDB
8 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.81%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.41%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.41%) SCADA
9 1 (0.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.25%) Windows
2 4 (1.63%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.22%) Android
3 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (32.93%) Agile
2 63 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (19.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (18.70%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (14.23%) DevOps
5 35 (14.23%) Workshop Facilitation
6 31 (12.60%) Decision-Making
6 31 (12.60%) Migration
7 30 (12.20%) Data Analysis
7 30 (12.20%) User Stories
8 29 (11.79%) Business Analysis
9 26 (10.57%) Actionable Insight
10 25 (10.16%) Analytics
10 25 (10.16%) Process Improvement
11 24 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (8.94%) Data Governance
13 22 (8.94%) Data Modelling
14 21 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (8.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.04%) SQL
2 22 (8.94%) Python
3 8 (3.25%) R
4 6 (2.44%) VBA
5 4 (1.63%) Java
6 1 (0.41%) C#
6 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 32 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.94%) Degree
3 21 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.47%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.81%) CBAP
7 2 (0.81%) CCNA
7 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.41%) CCNP
8 1 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) GCIA
8 1 (0.41%) GCIH
8 1 (0.41%) GIAC
8 1 (0.41%) IIBA
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.47%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.47%) PMO
2 8 (3.25%) GRC
3 7 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.85%) QA
4 5 (2.03%) HL7
4 5 (2.03%) NIST
5 4 (1.63%) GDPR
6 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.81%) P3O
7 2 (0.81%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) GxP
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.07%) Ansible
2 4 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.81%) Nessus
3 2 (0.81%) Terraform
4 1 (0.41%) CASB
Vendors
1 24 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.47%) ServiceNow
3 9 (3.66%) Oracle
3 9 (3.66%) Sonatype
3 9 (3.66%) Splunk
4 7 (2.85%) Google
5 5 (2.03%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.03%) SAP
6 4 (1.63%) Adobe
6 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.22%) Databricks
7 3 (1.22%) Foundry
7 3 (1.22%) Teradata
8 2 (0.81%) Tenable
8 2 (0.81%) Workday
9 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.41%) Concur
9 1 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.41%) Tanium
9 1 (0.41%) Zscaler