SQL Data Analyst Contracts

SQL Data Analyst
UK

The median SQL Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £481 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 617 718
Rank change year-on-year +80 +101 -161
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Data Analyst 42 67 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 97
10th Percentile £363 £274 £313
25th Percentile £413 £369 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £592 £575 £575
90th Percentile £608 £600 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

SQL Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SQL Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Data Analyst.

Daily rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Data Analyst over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Data Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England +80 40 £488 -2.50% 4
London +79 20 £575 +9.52% 1
Work from Home +92 19 £450 +2.86% 2
UK excluding London +50 17 £450 +2.86% 2
South East +15 9 £475 +15.15%
North of England +26 3 £425 -16.26% 2
South West +12 3 £500 -23.08%
Midlands +26 2 £463 -26.00%
North West +15 2 £413 -8.33%
East Midlands - 2 £463 -
Yorkshire +19 1 £425 -24.78% 1

SQL Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, SQL Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SQL Data Analyst in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (33.33%) Python
3 13 (30.95%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (30.95%) Finance
3 13 (30.95%) Analytics
4 11 (26.19%) Data Modelling
5 10 (23.81%) Data Analysis
5 10 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
6 9 (21.43%) Power Platform
6 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 9 (21.43%) Power BI
6 9 (21.43%) Data Quality
7 8 (19.05%) Tableau
7 8 (19.05%) Visualisation
7 8 (19.05%) Agile
7 8 (19.05%) Migration
7 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (19.05%) Data Science
7 8 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 7 (16.67%) R
8 7 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (14.29%) Data Governance
9 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (11.90%) Data Analytics
10 5 (11.90%) Azure
11 4 (9.52%) Qlik Sense

SQL Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.52%) SAS
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) SPSS
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 5 (11.90%) Azure
3 4 (9.52%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.38%) dbt
5 1 (2.38%) GitHub
5 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Power BI
2 8 (19.05%) Tableau
3 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (9.52%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (7.14%) Big Data
6 2 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.76%) Impala
6 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.38%) PowerPivot
7 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Git
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Legal
7 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.38%) Billing
8 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Law
8 1 (2.38%) Local Government
8 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) D3.js
2 1 (2.38%) Middleware
2 1 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.38%) Equities
2 1 (2.38%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.38%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Analytics
1 13 (30.95%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (26.19%) Data Modelling
3 10 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
3 10 (23.81%) Data Analysis
4 8 (19.05%) Agile
4 8 (19.05%) Data Science
4 8 (19.05%) Migration
4 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (19.05%) Visualisation
5 7 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
5 7 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 7 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.90%) Data Analytics
8 4 (9.52%) CRM
8 4 (9.52%) Customer Experience
8 4 (9.52%) ETL
8 4 (9.52%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (16.67%) R
4 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.76%) VBA
6 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
1 1 (2.38%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Databricks
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) Ab Initio
2 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.38%) Splunk