SQL Data Analyst Contracts

SQL Data Analyst
UK

The median SQL Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475, 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 540 631 728
Rank change year-on-year +91 +97 -167
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Data Analyst 44 66 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 52 95
10th Percentile £348 £268 £313
25th Percentile £384 £367 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £589 £575 £575
90th Percentile £603 £600 £637
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +21.95%

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 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 12 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 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 +71 42 £475 -3.55% 4
London +61 21 £575 +12.20% 1
Work from Home +100 19 £450 +5.88% 3
UK excluding London +33 18 £450 +9.09% 3
South East +20 9 £475 +15.15%
North of England +15 4 £400 -21.18% 2
North West +15 3 £375 -16.67%
South West +4 3 £500 -23.08%
East Midlands - 2 £463 -
Midlands - 2 £463 - 1
Yorkshire +12 1 £425 -24.78% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 44 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (31.82%) Python
2 14 (31.82%) Analytics
3 13 (29.55%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (29.55%) Finance
4 11 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 11 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 11 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 9 (20.45%) Power BI
5 9 (20.45%) Visualisation
5 9 (20.45%) Tableau
5 9 (20.45%) Data Quality
5 9 (20.45%) Power Platform
6 8 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (18.18%) Data Science
6 8 (18.18%) Agile
6 8 (18.18%) Migration
6 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (15.91%) R
7 7 (15.91%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (15.91%) Data Migration
7 7 (15.91%) Data Cleansing
7 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
8 6 (13.64%) Data Analytics
9 5 (11.36%) Azure
9 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (9.09%) Snowflake

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 (9.09%) SAS
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) SPSS
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Power Platform
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 4 (9.09%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.27%) dbt
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) Power BI
1 9 (20.45%) Tableau
2 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (6.82%) Big Data
5 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
5 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.55%) Impala
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.27%) PowerPivot
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 13 (29.55%) Finance
2 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.09%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Legal
6 2 (4.55%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Billing
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Law
7 1 (2.27%) Local Government
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) D3.js
2 1 (2.27%) Middleware
2 1 (2.27%) PySpark
2 1 (2.27%) Tapestry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.27%) Equities
2 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.27%) NHS
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.27%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Analytics
2 13 (29.55%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 11 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 11 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 9 (20.45%) Visualisation
5 8 (18.18%) Agile
5 8 (18.18%) Data Science
5 8 (18.18%) Migration
5 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.91%) Data Cleansing
6 7 (15.91%) Data Migration
6 7 (15.91%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.64%) Data Analytics
7 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
8 4 (9.09%) CRM
8 4 (9.09%) Customer Experience
8 4 (9.09%) ETL
8 4 (9.09%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (31.82%) Python
3 7 (15.91%) R
4 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.55%) VBA
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.27%) Degree
1 1 (2.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Databricks
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Ab Initio
2 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.27%) Splunk