SQL Analyst Contracts

SQL Analyst
UK

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 576 599
Rank change year-on-year +88 +23 -127
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 83 111 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.21% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 85 191
10th Percentile £363 £320 £333
25th Percentile £463 £400 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £580 £553
90th Percentile £850 £600 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £424 £450
% change year-on-year +12.16% -5.89% +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

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £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 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +92 81 £600 +20.00% 14
London +94 58 £625 +13.64% 4
Work from Home +92 41 £625 +38.89% 7
UK excluding London +42 21 £475 +12.16% 10
South East +36 12 £475 +18.75% 4
North of England +27 4 £413 -2.94% 1
North West +18 3 £375 -6.25% 1
South West +8 3 £500 -23.08% 4
Midlands +20 2 £463 +0.33% 1
East Midlands +15 2 £463 -7.50%
Yorkshire +13 1 £515 -8.85%

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 83 (100.00%) SQL
2 48 (57.83%) Python
3 34 (40.96%) Finance
4 31 (37.35%) Banking
5 26 (31.33%) Derivative
6 25 (30.12%) Front Office
6 25 (30.12%) C#
7 22 (26.51%) Hedge funds
8 20 (24.10%) Mentoring
8 20 (24.10%) Asset Management
8 20 (24.10%) Investment Management
8 20 (24.10%) Back Office
9 19 (22.89%) Analytics
10 15 (18.07%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (16.87%) Data Modelling
12 13 (15.66%) Windows
12 13 (15.66%) PowerShell
12 13 (15.66%) ITRS Geneos
12 13 (15.66%) DevOps
12 13 (15.66%) Dynatrace
13 11 (13.25%) Data Management
13 11 (13.25%) Data Analysis
13 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
14 10 (12.05%) Power Platform
14 10 (12.05%) Power BI
14 10 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
14 10 (12.05%) Data Quality
14 10 (12.05%) Tableau
15 9 (10.84%) Visualisation
15 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 5 (6.02%) SAS
2 3 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.82%) SPSS
2 2 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.05%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.02%) AWS
2 5 (6.02%) Azure
3 4 (4.82%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.41%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.20%) dbt
5 1 (1.20%) GitHub
5 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) Power BI
1 10 (12.05%) Tableau
2 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.82%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (3.61%) Big Data
5 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.61%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.41%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.41%) Impala
6 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.20%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.20%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Artifactory
1 5 (6.02%) Jenkins
1 5 (6.02%) Subversion
2 2 (2.41%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Git
General
1 34 (40.96%) Finance
2 31 (37.35%) Banking
3 25 (30.12%) Front Office
4 20 (24.10%) Back Office
5 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
6 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (8.43%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.41%) Billing
10 2 (2.41%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.41%) Legal
10 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.20%) Law
11 1 (1.20%) Local Government
11 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.20%) Publishing
11 1 (1.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) Middleware
2 5 (6.02%) .NET
3 4 (4.82%) D3.js
4 1 (1.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (31.33%) Derivative
2 22 (26.51%) Hedge funds
3 5 (6.02%) OTC Derivatives
4 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.41%) Equities
6 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.20%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Windows
2 8 (9.64%) Linux
3 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.10%) Asset Management
1 20 (24.10%) Investment Management
1 20 (24.10%) Mentoring
2 19 (22.89%) Analytics
3 15 (18.07%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (16.87%) Data Modelling
5 13 (15.66%) DevOps
6 11 (13.25%) Data Analysis
6 11 (13.25%) Data Management
7 10 (12.05%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (10.84%) Visualisation
9 8 (9.64%) Agile
9 8 (9.64%) Data Science
9 8 (9.64%) Incident Management
9 8 (9.64%) Migration
9 8 (9.64%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (9.64%) Release Management
9 8 (9.64%) Risk Management
10 7 (8.43%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) SQL
2 48 (57.83%) Python
3 25 (30.12%) C#
4 13 (15.66%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.43%) R
6 5 (6.02%) C++
6 5 (6.02%) Java
7 2 (2.41%) Scala
7 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.41%) VBA
8 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.20%) Degree
1 1 (1.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
2 1 (1.20%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 13 (15.66%) ITRS Geneos
2 8 (9.64%) Grafana
3 5 (6.02%) Ansible
3 5 (6.02%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 13 (15.66%) Dynatrace
2 8 (9.64%) IBM
3 5 (6.02%) Altiris
3 5 (6.02%) Citrix
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.61%) Databricks
6 1 (1.20%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.20%) NEC
6 1 (1.20%) Northgate
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle
6 1 (1.20%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.20%) Splunk