SQL Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 405 441
Rank change year-on-year +37 +36 -70
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 22 38 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 48
10th Percentile £325 £241 £260
25th Percentile £367 £363 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £424 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.16% -5.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £498 £498 £538
90th Percentile £520 £606 £575
UK median daily rate £600 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £21.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +22 12 £475 +18.75% 2
North of England +28 4 £413 -2.94% 1
South West +14 4 £488 -25.00% 2
North West +14 3 £375 -6.25% 1
Midlands +26 2 £463 +0.33% 1
East Midlands +21 2 £463 -7.50%
Yorkshire +15 1 £515 -8.85%
SQL Analyst
UK

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Analytics
2 9 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Actionable Insight
3 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Tableau
4 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 6 (27.27%) Data Cleansing
4 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 6 (27.27%) Python
5 5 (22.73%) SAS
5 5 (22.73%) R
5 5 (22.73%) Data Science
6 4 (18.18%) Customer Experience
6 4 (18.18%) D3.js
6 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
6 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (18.18%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (18.18%) SPSS
6 4 (18.18%) Six Sigma
6 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
7 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
7 3 (13.64%) Finance
7 3 (13.64%) Power BI
7 3 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
8 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (9.09%) Dashboard Development

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (22.73%) SAS
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) SPSS
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Tableau
2 4 (18.18%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (13.64%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) PowerPivot
4 1 (4.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) D3.js
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Analytics
1 9 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (31.82%) Actionable Insight
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 6 (27.27%) Data Cleansing
3 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Data Science
5 4 (18.18%) Customer Experience
5 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Six Sigma
5 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 3 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (9.09%) Data Integration
7 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (9.09%) Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) R
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft