Analytical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Analytical Thinking
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 81 108
Rank change year-on-year -42 +27 +40
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 10 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.55% 0.67% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.78% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £510 £534 -
25th Percentile £512 £535 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - -
75th Percentile £552 £614 -
90th Percentile £591 £703 -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% +6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.32
Median hourly rate - - £16.11
75th Percentile - - £16.90
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.82 £25.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -24.72% -43.00% +41.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,024 1,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 86.05% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 612 1,041
10th Percentile £250 £235 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -3.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £640 £687 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 30 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.65 £60.29 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
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 Analytical Thinking within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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 - 8 £525 - 7
South Yorkshire -51 1 £538 -2.27% 3
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
1 3 (30.00%) OCI
2 2 (20.00%) Asana
2 2 (20.00%) Smartsheet
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Front Office
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) SOAR
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (20.00%) Business Case
4 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) LLM
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (30.00%) GCIA
1 3 (30.00%) GCIH
1 3 (30.00%) GIAC
1 3 (30.00%) SSCP
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
1 3 (30.00%) NIST 800
1 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Rapid7
2 2 (20.00%) Wrike
3 1 (10.00%) MarketAxess
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Tradeweb