Data Analysis Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Analysis
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 50 84
Rank change year-on-year -38 +34 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 45 40 27
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.42% 3.39% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 3.94% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 16
10th Percentile £295 £143 £202
25th Percentile £313 £158 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £350 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -32.69% +2.72%
75th Percentile £500 £450 £625
90th Percentile £538 £500 £713
England median daily rate £475 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% -6.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £22.33 -
25th Percentile - £28.06 £15.32
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year - +101.74% -
75th Percentile - £33.75 £16.90
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.60 £29.00 £31.05
% change year-on-year +2.07% -6.60% -37.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Data Analysis 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 1,663 1,016 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 86.03% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 609 1,028
10th Percentile £250 £232 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 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 £39.68 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £60.29 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Yorkshire

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Analysis

Data Analysis
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 Data Analysis within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
South Yorkshire -29 29 £365 - 12
West Yorkshire -27 14 £525 +50.00% 32
North Yorkshire - 2 - - 7
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
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 8 (17.78%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.89%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (48.89%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
2 3 (6.67%) PowerApps
3 2 (4.44%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.22%) AWS
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.22%) Collibra
4 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.22%) Figma
4 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.22%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (2.22%) IBM Blueworks
4 1 (2.22%) Lucidchart
4 1 (2.22%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (48.89%) Power BI
2 11 (24.44%) Power Query
3 7 (15.56%) PowerPivot
4 3 (6.67%) Metadata
5 2 (4.44%) MS Access
5 2 (4.44%) Tableau
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.22%) Big Data
6 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.22%) Parquet
6 1 (2.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (48.89%) Finance
3 19 (42.22%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (42.22%) Banking
4 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.89%) Billing
5 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Publishing
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (71.11%) Analyst
2 21 (46.67%) Data Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Business Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Strategy Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Report Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Agile Coach
8 2 (4.44%) Agile Delivery Coach
8 2 (4.44%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) PMO Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Senior
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Data Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) Backup Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Junior Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
2 1 (2.22%) LDAP
2 1 (2.22%) OAuth
2 1 (2.22%) OpenID
2 1 (2.22%) PySpark
2 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.89%) Mainframe
3 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 14 (31.11%) Decision-Making
5 12 (26.67%) Data Management
6 11 (24.44%) Agile
6 11 (24.44%) Analytics
6 11 (24.44%) Data Visualisation
6 11 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (20.00%) Budgeting
8 9 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 9 (20.00%) Data Mapping
8 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 8 (17.78%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (17.78%) Data Extraction
9 8 (17.78%) Strategic Planning
10 7 (15.56%) Dashboard Development
10 7 (15.56%) ITIL
10 7 (15.56%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) SQL
2 9 (20.00%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) VBA
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) ACCA
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMP
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.67%) PMO
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.44%) Sonatype
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe
4 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Dell
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) IFS