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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 242 128 184
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 10.19% 12.79% 11.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.06% 13.60% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 82 109
10th Percentile £262 £143 £150
25th Percentile £344 £318 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £508
90th Percentile £569 £529 £564
England median daily rate £450 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 7
10th Percentile £17.12 £16.38 -
25th Percentile £17.35 £20.24 £12.53
Median hourly rate £17.99 £21.69 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% +49.59% -25.20%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.14 £15.49
90th Percentile £19.25 £28.15 £18.24
England median hourly rate £20.75 £22.27 £16.15
% change year-on-year -6.83% +37.89% -17.18%

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 2,189 941 1,525
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 94.01% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 613 949
10th Percentile £313 £223 £210
25th Percentile £400 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 33 62
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.53 £11.19
25th Percentile £16.77 £17.08 £12.32
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +100.09% +49.05% -34.48%
75th Percentile £57.44 £22.14 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.61 £48.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -19.08%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +4 149 £450 +7.52% 65
South Yorkshire -18 81 £369 -7.75% 35
North Yorkshire -4 14 £450 +12.50% 19
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 78 (32.23%) Agile
2 65 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (20.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (19.42%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (16.53%) Power Platform
6 38 (15.70%) SQL
7 37 (15.29%) DevOps
8 35 (14.46%) Power BI
9 33 (13.64%) Data Analysis
9 33 (13.64%) Decision-Making
9 33 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
9 33 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
10 32 (13.22%) Migration
10 32 (13.22%) Security Cleared
11 30 (12.40%) Business Analysis
12 29 (11.98%) User Stories
13 27 (11.16%) Actionable Insight
13 27 (11.16%) Analytics
14 25 (10.33%) Process Improvement
15 24 (9.92%) Data Governance
16 23 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (9.50%) Data Modelling
16 23 (9.50%) Python
17 22 (9.09%) JIRA
17 22 (9.09%) Microsoft
18 21 (8.68%) Degree
18 21 (8.68%) SC Cleared
19 20 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
19 20 (8.26%) Data Extraction
19 20 (8.26%) Software Delivery

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 17 (7.02%) Confluence
2 9 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 33 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.89%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.31%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.53%) Power Platform
2 18 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (7.02%) Azure
4 12 (4.96%) AWS
4 12 (4.96%) GitHub
5 5 (2.07%) GCP
6 3 (1.24%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (1.24%) Google Analytics
6 3 (1.24%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.24%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.83%) Azure AI
7 2 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.41%) Apigee
8 1 (0.41%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (0.41%) Miro
8 1 (0.41%) SaaS
8 1 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) DNS
1 3 (1.24%) VoIP
2 2 (0.83%) DHCP
2 2 (0.83%) Firewall
2 2 (0.83%) Internet
2 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.83%) X.25
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 35 (14.46%) Power BI
2 9 (3.72%) Tableau
3 8 (3.31%) Metadata
3 8 (3.31%) Power Query
3 8 (3.31%) PowerPivot
4 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.83%) GIS
7 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.83%) MS Access
7 2 (0.83%) QlikView
8 1 (0.41%) Big Data
8 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.41%) Looker
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (9.09%) JIRA
2 14 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.96%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.83%) Git
5 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.41%) PVCS
General
1 97 (40.08%) Social Skills
2 71 (29.34%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (26.86%) Finance
4 38 (15.70%) Banking
5 37 (15.29%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.13%) Legal
9 9 (3.72%) Retail
10 6 (2.48%) Military
11 4 (1.65%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.24%) Digital Health
12 3 (1.24%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.83%) Law
13 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.07%) FHIR
2 3 (1.24%) REST
3 2 (0.83%) Middleware
3 2 (0.83%) STL
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
4 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.85%) NHS
2 13 (5.37%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.72%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.65%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.24%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.24%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.83%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.83%) CMDB
7 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.41%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.41%) SCADA
8 1 (0.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.96%) Windows
2 4 (1.65%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.24%) Android
3 3 (1.24%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.23%) Agile
2 65 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (20.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (19.42%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (15.29%) DevOps
6 33 (13.64%) Data Analysis
6 33 (13.64%) Decision-Making
6 33 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
7 32 (13.22%) Migration
8 30 (12.40%) Business Analysis
9 29 (11.98%) User Stories
10 27 (11.16%) Actionable Insight
10 27 (11.16%) Analytics
11 25 (10.33%) Process Improvement
12 24 (9.92%) Data Governance
13 23 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (9.50%) Data Modelling
14 20 (8.26%) Data Extraction
14 20 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (8.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.70%) SQL
2 23 (9.50%) Python
3 9 (3.72%) VBA
4 6 (2.48%) R
5 4 (1.65%) 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 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.68%) Degree
2 21 (8.68%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.31%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.83%) CBAP
6 2 (0.83%) CCNA
6 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.41%) CCNP
7 1 (0.41%) CISSP
7 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) GCIA
7 1 (0.41%) GCIH
7 1 (0.41%) GIAC
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.41%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.13%) PMO
3 8 (3.31%) GRC
3 8 (3.31%) QA
4 7 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.07%) HL7
5 5 (2.07%) NIST
6 4 (1.65%) GDPR
7 3 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.83%) SLA
9 1 (0.41%) GxP
9 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.41%) P3O
9 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (4.96%) Ansible
2 4 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.83%) Nessus
4 2 (0.83%) Terraform
5 1 (0.41%) CASB
Vendors
1 22 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.55%) Sonatype
3 10 (4.13%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.13%) Splunk
4 7 (2.89%) Google
4 7 (2.89%) Oracle
5 5 (2.07%) Rapid7
5 5 (2.07%) SAP
6 4 (1.65%) Adobe
6 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.24%) Databricks
7 3 (1.24%) Foundry
7 3 (1.24%) Teradata
8 2 (0.83%) Apple
8 2 (0.83%) Dell
8 2 (0.83%) Intel
8 2 (0.83%) Tenable
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco
9 1 (0.41%) HP
9 1 (0.41%) Temenos