Data Analyst (maternity cover)

Data Analyst (maternity cover)

Sheffield City Centre (fully office-based)

Salary: £35,000 - £60,000

Start: Early 2026 (with handover/overlap)
Contract type: 37 hours per week. Fixed term 13 months from early 2026. Potential for this role to become a permanent hire, depending on business requirements. 

UniHomes is a leading UK student accommodation platform operating across 60+ cities, providing a Utility Management Service to our customers. Our Data & Analytics function powers commercial performance, product decisions, and operational efficiency, with increasing demands following investment from our private equity shareholders, Macquarie and LDC. 

We’re looking for a talented Data Analyst (Mid to Senior level) to join our established Data & Analytics team for a 13-month maternity cover, with the potential for this role to become permanent. 
 
You’ll work as a hands-on analyst - contributing directly to our dashboards, data models, and insight delivery across Sales, Marketing, Product, Operations, and Finance. This role is ideal for someone commercially minded who enjoys variety, takes ownership of their analysis, and thrives in a fast-moving, collaborative environment. 

You’ll be a commercially focused analyst who enjoys getting stuck into data and making a tangible impact. You’ll be confident in SQL and BI tools, curious about the “why” behind numbers, and able to communicate findings clearly to non-technical audiences. 

Key responsibilities:

• Analytics delivery: 
  • Build and enhance Tableau dashboards to monitor key business performance metrics across Sales, Marketing, Product, Operations, and Finance. 
  • Develop and maintain SQL models in dbt to transform raw data into reliable, business-ready tables. 
  • Perform deep-dive analyses to identify trends, explain performance drivers, and make actionable recommendations. 
  • Support the weekly KPI reporting cadence with clear insight and data visualisation. 
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define metrics, improve data quality, and automate recurring reporting. 
  • Work with Sales, Operations, Marketing and Finance to track agent, property, website, and budget performance across letting seasons. 
  • Finance to track agent, property, website, and budget performance across letting seasons. Support Product and Engineering teams with user analytics, experimentation (A/B tests), and feature adoption insights. 
  • Conduct ad-hoc analyses and investigations - from demand tracking to client engagement and operational efficiency. 
• Team collaboration: 
  • Participate in peer reviews, model documentation, and QA processes. 
  • Contribute to an established analytics stack (Snowflake, dbt, Tableau) - with all core data structures and reporting already in place. 
  • Champion best practices in analytical design, reproducibility, and communication of insights. 

Skills and experience:

• 3-5+ years’ experience in data or analytics roles. 
• Strong SQL skills (comfortable joining multiple tables, using CTEs, CASE statements, and window functions). 
• Experience building dashboards in Tableau (or similar tools) and using advanced BI features (e.g., LOD calculations, layered filtering). 
• Commercial awareness and ability to link data insights to business actions. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. 

• Experience with dbt and Snowflake (or other cloud data warehouses). 
• Familiarity with GA4 and Salesforce data. 
• Background in property, utilities, or marketplace businesses. 

About us: 

At UniHomes, we’re on a mission to transform the entire student rental experience across the UK. As the market-leading student accommodation advertising platform and utility management service provider, we make finding and securing all-inclusive student accommodation simple, seamless, and stress-free.

We’re not just another platform. UniHomes is developing innovative technology to deliver one go-to destination that supports the entire student rental journey. With an unwavering focus on our students, partner letting agents, operators and suppliers, we continually evolve and enhance our products and services to exceed expectations, while tackling market complexity with ease and transparency.

Since launching in 2015, we’ve experienced rapid growth. Today, we operate in 60+ cities, partner with 1,000+ agents and operators, and are backed by Macquarie Capital and LDC. Our success has been recognised with accolades from EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, The Negotiator Awards, and Great Place to Work® certification.

Our 140+ strong team is based in the heart of Sheffield City Centre, where we’re driving innovation, expanding into new markets, and fostering a culture built on collaboration, creativity, and growth.

If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact and help redefine how students find their perfect home, now is the time to join UniHomes. Be part of a team that’s opening new doors to better experiences, brighter ideas, and stress-free living.


We are a team driven and united by our core values:

• Lead the Way
• In it Together 
• Customers Matter
• Keep it Simple 
• Rise Above Challenges 
• Make it Happen

What do you get when you work here?

With people and culture at the heart of our organisation, we are continually enhancing our employee offer and culture. We are incredibly proud to have been officially certified as a Great Place to Work® (GPTW®) and an accredited Living Wage employer - all our employees earn a fair living wage above the government minimum wage.

Working in our stunning new office at New Era Square in the centre of Sheffield, you will get complimentary breakfast, hot & cold drinks, snacks, pool table, holidays, length of service days, voluntary day, enhanced pension scheme, pension salary sacrifice scheme, healthcare scheme, Employee Assistant Programme, sick pay, enhanced maternity & paternity pay, career progression, a commitment to personal and professional development, employee of the month award, refer a friend scheme, staff discounts, mental health and financial support, and company social events. 

At UniHomes we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can thrive and which values individuals for their unique perspectives. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to make the recruitment process more accessible to you.

Applicants must already have the permanent and unrestricted right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship as we do not hold a sponsor licence.

We want to hear your unique voice in your application. We love AI, but relying on it solely to write your cover letter and answer the application questions is a missed opportunity to showcase the originality and personality that will make you stand out. Show us the real you.

We do not accept CV submissions from recruitment agencies. Direct applications from individual candidates are encouraged. Thank you for your understanding.