SQL Analyst Contracts

SQL Analyst
UK

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 587 613
Rank change year-on-year +84 +26 -126
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 81 110 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 83 183
10th Percentile £363 £319 £325
25th Percentile £450 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -12.20% +7.05%
75th Percentile £653 £575 £550
90th Percentile £700 £600 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL 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 Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +67 79 £575 +22.67% 9
London +73 54 £600 +9.09% 3
Work from Home +104 40 £540 +27.06% 4
UK excluding London +14 22 £475 +11.76% 5
South East +16 12 £475 +15.15% 1
North of England +13 5 £425 - 2
North West +12 3 £375 -9.09%
South West +3 3 £500 -23.08%
Midlands +15 2 £463 -2.63% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £470 -16.81% 1
East Midlands +8 2 £463 -7.50%

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, SQL 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) SQL
2 42 (51.85%) Python
3 30 (37.04%) Finance
4 25 (30.86%) Banking
5 21 (25.93%) Analytics
6 20 (24.69%) Derivative
7 19 (23.46%) Front Office
7 19 (23.46%) C#
8 18 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (19.75%) Hedge funds
10 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
11 14 (17.28%) Mentoring
11 14 (17.28%) Asset Management
11 14 (17.28%) Investment Management
11 14 (17.28%) Back Office
12 13 (16.05%) Data Analysis
12 13 (16.05%) Tableau
12 13 (16.05%) Power Platform
12 13 (16.05%) Power BI
13 12 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (14.81%) DevOps
13 12 (14.81%) ITRS Geneos
13 12 (14.81%) Dynatrace
13 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
13 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
13 12 (14.81%) Windows
14 11 (13.58%) Visualisation
15 10 (12.35%) Data Quality
15 10 (12.35%) Migration
16 9 (11.11%) Data Migration

SQL 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 (4.94%) SAS
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) SPSS
3 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.05%) Power Platform
2 6 (7.41%) AWS
2 6 (7.41%) Azure
3 5 (6.17%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.23%) dbt
5 1 (1.23%) GitHub
5 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.23%) SaaS
5 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.05%) Power BI
1 13 (16.05%) Tableau
2 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.94%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (3.70%) Big Data
6 2 (2.47%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.47%) Impala
6 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.23%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Artifactory
1 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
1 5 (6.17%) Subversion
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 30 (37.04%) Finance
2 25 (30.86%) Banking
3 19 (23.46%) Front Office
4 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 14 (17.28%) Back Office
6 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (8.64%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.47%) Billing
10 2 (2.47%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.47%) Legal
10 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.23%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.23%) Law
11 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.23%) Publishing
11 1 (1.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) Middleware
2 5 (6.17%) .NET
3 4 (4.94%) D3.js
4 1 (1.23%) PySpark
4 1 (1.23%) Tapestry
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Derivative
2 16 (19.75%) Hedge funds
3 5 (6.17%) OTC Derivatives
4 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) Equities
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
6 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Windows
2 7 (8.64%) Linux
3 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.93%) Analytics
2 18 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (17.28%) Asset Management
3 14 (17.28%) Investment Management
3 14 (17.28%) Mentoring
4 13 (16.05%) Data Analysis
5 12 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
5 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
5 12 (14.81%) DevOps
6 11 (13.58%) Visualisation
7 10 (12.35%) Migration
8 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
8 9 (11.11%) Data Science
9 8 (9.88%) Agile
9 8 (9.88%) Data Management
9 8 (9.88%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.64%) Data Cleansing
10 7 (8.64%) Release Management
10 7 (8.64%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) SQL
2 42 (51.85%) Python
3 19 (23.46%) C#
4 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.64%) R
6 5 (6.17%) C++
6 5 (6.17%) Java
7 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.47%) VBA
9 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.47%) Degree
2 1 (1.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.23%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) ITRS Geneos
2 8 (9.88%) Grafana
3 5 (6.17%) Ansible
3 5 (6.17%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Dynatrace
2 7 (8.64%) IBM
3 5 (6.17%) Altiris
3 5 (6.17%) Citrix
4 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.70%) Databricks
6 1 (1.23%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.23%) NEC
6 1 (1.23%) Northgate
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle
6 1 (1.23%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) Splunk