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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 600 609
Rank change year-on-year +91 +9 -143
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 89 119 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 89 194
10th Percentile £382 £320 £331
25th Percentile £463 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £575
90th Percentile £850 £600 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +16.50%
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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

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 27 April 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 12 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 27 April 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 +108 86 £600 +14.29% 8
London +87 61 £625 +13.64% 3
Work from Home +109 43 £625 +34.41% 4
UK excluding London +55 23 £475 +11.76% 6
South East +33 12 £475 +2.70% 1
South West +25 5 £475 -26.92% 2
North of England +25 3 £450 +2.86% 1
Midlands +21 2 £463 +0.33% 1
East Midlands +19 2 £463 -7.50%
North West +11 2 £293 -31.18% 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £515 -8.85%
East of England +10 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 89 (100.00%) SQL
2 48 (53.93%) Python
3 34 (38.20%) Finance
4 30 (33.71%) Banking
5 26 (29.21%) Derivative
6 25 (28.09%) Front Office
6 25 (28.09%) C#
7 24 (26.97%) Hedge funds
8 22 (24.72%) Investment Management
9 20 (22.47%) Asset Management
9 20 (22.47%) Back Office
9 20 (22.47%) Data Modelling
9 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
10 19 (21.35%) Analytics
10 19 (21.35%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (15.73%) Power Platform
11 14 (15.73%) ITRS Geneos
11 14 (15.73%) DevOps
11 14 (15.73%) Dynatrace
11 14 (15.73%) Power BI
11 14 (15.73%) Windows
11 14 (15.73%) Data Management
11 14 (15.73%) PowerShell
12 13 (14.61%) Data Analysis
13 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (12.36%) Data Quality
13 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
14 10 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (11.24%) Actionable Insight
14 10 (11.24%) Decision-Making

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 (5.62%) SAS
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) SPSS
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.73%) Power Platform
2 4 (4.49%) Azure
3 3 (3.37%) AWS
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.12%) dbt
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub
5 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.73%) Power BI
2 10 (11.24%) Tableau
3 9 (10.11%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.49%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.25%) Big Data
7 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.12%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.12%) Impala
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Artifactory
1 5 (5.62%) Eclipse
1 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
1 5 (5.62%) Subversion
2 2 (2.25%) JIRA
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (38.20%) Finance
2 30 (33.71%) Banking
3 25 (28.09%) Front Office
4 20 (22.47%) Back Office
5 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
6 10 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.74%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.25%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Marketing
9 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.12%) Billing
10 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Legal
10 1 (1.12%) Local Government
10 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Publishing
10 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) Middleware
2 5 (5.62%) .NET
3 4 (4.49%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.21%) Derivative
2 24 (26.97%) Hedge funds
3 5 (5.62%) OTC Derivatives
4 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.25%) Equities
5 2 (2.25%) Wiki
6 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.73%) Windows
2 9 (10.11%) Linux
3 5 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.72%) Investment Management
2 20 (22.47%) Asset Management
2 20 (22.47%) Data Modelling
2 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
3 19 (21.35%) Analytics
3 19 (21.35%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (15.73%) Data Management
4 14 (15.73%) DevOps
5 13 (14.61%) Data Analysis
6 10 (11.24%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (11.24%) Agile
6 10 (11.24%) Decision-Making
7 9 (10.11%) Incident Management
7 9 (10.11%) Migration
7 9 (10.11%) Proactive Monitoring
7 9 (10.11%) Release Management
7 9 (10.11%) Risk Management
8 8 (8.99%) Data Analytics
8 8 (8.99%) Data Cleansing
8 8 (8.99%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) SQL
2 48 (53.93%) Python
3 25 (28.09%) C#
4 14 (15.73%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.87%) R
6 5 (5.62%) C++
6 5 (5.62%) Java
7 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.12%) Scala
7 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.25%) QA
3 1 (1.12%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 14 (15.73%) ITRS Geneos
2 9 (10.11%) Grafana
3 5 (5.62%) Ansible
3 5 (5.62%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 14 (15.73%) Dynatrace
2 9 (10.11%) IBM
3 5 (5.62%) Altiris
3 5 (5.62%) Citrix
4 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.37%) Databricks
6 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.12%) NEC
6 1 (1.12%) Northgate
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.12%) Splunk