SQL Analyst
UK

The median SQL Analyst salary in the UK is £61,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 733 770 810
Rank change year-on-year +37 +40 -224
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 175 190 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 123 175 395
10th Percentile £30,850 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £78,750 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% +2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +24 133 £62,500 +13.64% 16
UK excluding London +38 102 £37,500 -9.09% 11
London +49 72 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Work from Home +49 63 £80,000 +52.38% 8
Wales +38 36 £32,500 -18.75%
South East +9 28 £47,500 +11.76% 4
South West +1 15 £43,500 -13.00% 5
North of England +35 11 £37,500 -3.85% 1
North West +1 8 £37,500 +1.35% 1
East of England +3 6 £36,750 -41.20% 1
Scotland -66 5 £35,000 -
Yorkshire +73 3 £31,500 -22.70%
West Midlands +3 1 £28,500 -15.56% 1
Midlands -11 1 £28,500 -18.57% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, SQL Analyst 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 permanent job ads featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 175 (100.00%) SQL
2 77 (44.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (35.43%) Power BI
3 62 (35.43%) Power Platform
4 55 (31.43%) Microsoft Office
5 54 (30.86%) Finance
5 54 (30.86%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (29.14%) Performance Tuning
7 49 (28.00%) Degree
7 49 (28.00%) Oracle
8 48 (27.43%) Linux
9 47 (26.86%) Solaris
9 47 (26.86%) Unix
9 47 (26.86%) Performance Monitoring
9 47 (26.86%) Oracle Database
10 46 (26.29%) PL/SQL
10 46 (26.29%) Business Intelligence
11 45 (25.71%) Artificial Intelligence
11 45 (25.71%) Actionable Insight
12 44 (25.14%) Oracle RAC
12 44 (25.14%) Remedy ITSM
12 44 (25.14%) Oracle Database 11g
12 44 (25.14%) SC Cleared
12 44 (25.14%) Security Cleared
12 44 (25.14%) Data Guard
12 44 (25.14%) Capacity Planning
12 44 (25.14%) Oracle Service Bus
12 44 (25.14%) Oracle RMAN
12 44 (25.14%) ITSM
12 44 (25.14%) SLA

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 44 (25.14%) Oracle Service Bus
1 44 (25.14%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.71%) Apache
3 3 (1.71%) GlassFish
3 3 (1.71%) JBoss
3 3 (1.71%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.14%) CMS
4 2 (1.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (44.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (31.43%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (25.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (25.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.86%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 62 (35.43%) Power Platform
2 35 (20.00%) Azure
3 7 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.00%) Snowflake
4 4 (2.29%) PowerApps
5 3 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (1.71%) SaaS
6 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) DHCP
1 3 (1.71%) DNS
1 3 (1.71%) LAN
1 3 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.71%) WAN
2 2 (1.14%) Internet
2 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (35.43%) Power BI
2 47 (26.86%) Oracle Database
3 44 (25.14%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (25.14%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (25.14%) VLDB
4 22 (12.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 18 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (8.57%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.29%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (2.29%) Tableau
11 3 (1.71%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.14%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.14%) SSDT
12 2 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.14%) JIRA
1 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (30.86%) Analytical Skills
1 54 (30.86%) Finance
2 35 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.57%) Back Office
3 29 (16.57%) Front Office
4 27 (15.43%) Banking
5 24 (13.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.71%) Retail Banking
7 6 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.86%) Retail
9 3 (1.71%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.71%) LDAP
1 3 (1.71%) SAML
2 2 (1.14%) REST
2 2 (1.14%) XML
3 1 (0.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.57%) Derivative
2 27 (15.43%) Hedge funds
3 12 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (6.86%) Reinsurance
4 6 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.14%) Equities
6 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 48 (27.43%) Linux
2 47 (26.86%) Solaris
2 47 (26.86%) Unix
3 5 (2.86%) Windows
4 3 (1.71%) AIX
4 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.14%) Performance Tuning
2 47 (26.86%) Performance Monitoring
3 46 (26.29%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (25.71%) Actionable Insight
4 45 (25.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 44 (25.14%) Capacity Planning
5 44 (25.14%) ITSM
6 43 (24.57%) Capacity Management
6 43 (24.57%) Incident Management
6 43 (24.57%) Release Management
7 29 (16.57%) Asset Management
7 29 (16.57%) Investment Management
8 28 (16.00%) Mentoring
9 27 (15.43%) Visualisation
10 24 (13.71%) Data Analysis
11 20 (11.43%) Migration
12 18 (10.29%) Analytics
13 12 (6.86%) Data Visualisation
14 11 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 175 (100.00%) SQL
2 46 (26.29%) PL/SQL
3 42 (24.00%) Python
4 32 (18.29%) C#
5 14 (8.00%) T-SQL
6 13 (7.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.43%) Java
8 3 (1.71%) R
9 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (28.00%) Degree
2 44 (25.14%) SC Cleared
2 44 (25.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.43%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.43%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (25.14%) SLA
2 8 (4.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (25.14%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.71%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (25.14%) Data Guard
1 44 (25.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (1.71%) Oracle Statspack
2 3 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 49 (28.00%) Oracle
2 44 (25.14%) Remedy
2 44 (25.14%) Sun
3 20 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.86%) Epicor
5 3 (1.71%) New Relic
5 3 (1.71%) NGA Human Resources
5 3 (1.71%) Northgate
5 3 (1.71%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.71%) VMware
6 1 (0.57%) Capita
6 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.57%) Talend