SQL Analyst Contracts in England

SQL Analyst
UK > England

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 546 560
Rank change year-on-year +80 +14 -150
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 83 100 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.22% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 77 170
10th Percentile £380 £325 £331
25th Percentile £463 £406 £451
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 median daily rate £600 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +22.45% -6.67% +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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +88 60 £625 +13.64% 4
South East +26 12 £475 +15.15% 2
North of England +28 4 £413 -2.94% 1
South West +20 4 £488 -25.00% 2
North West +20 3 £375 -6.25% 1
East Midlands +23 2 £463 -7.50%
Midlands +23 2 £463 +0.33% 1
Yorkshire +17 1 £515 -8.85%
SQL Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 England region featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) SQL
2 46 (55.42%) Python
3 35 (42.17%) Finance
4 31 (37.35%) Banking
5 26 (31.33%) Derivative
6 25 (30.12%) Front Office
6 25 (30.12%) C#
7 24 (28.92%) Hedge funds
8 22 (26.51%) Investment Management
9 20 (24.10%) Back Office
9 20 (24.10%) Asset Management
9 20 (24.10%) Analytics
9 20 (24.10%) Mentoring
10 16 (19.28%) Data Modelling
10 16 (19.28%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (15.66%) Windows
11 13 (15.66%) PowerShell
11 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
11 13 (15.66%) DevOps
11 13 (15.66%) ITRS Geneos
11 13 (15.66%) Dynatrace
12 12 (14.46%) Power Platform
12 12 (14.46%) Power BI
12 12 (14.46%) Data Management
12 12 (14.46%) Data Analysis
13 10 (12.05%) Tableau
13 10 (12.05%) Data Quality
14 9 (10.84%) Visualisation
14 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (10.84%) Actionable Insight

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (14.46%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.02%) Azure
3 4 (4.82%) AWS
4 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.20%) dbt
6 1 (1.20%) GitHub
6 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) Power BI
2 10 (12.05%) Tableau
3 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.82%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (3.61%) Big Data
6 3 (3.61%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.61%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.41%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.41%) Impala
7 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.20%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.20%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 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 3 (3.61%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) Git
General
1 35 (42.17%) Finance
2 31 (37.35%) Banking
3 25 (30.12%) Front Office
4 20 (24.10%) Back Office
5 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
6 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (8.43%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.41%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Legal
9 2 (2.41%) Marketing
9 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.20%) Billing
10 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Local Government
10 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Publishing
10 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 24 (28.92%) Hedge funds
3 5 (6.02%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.41%) Equities
5 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.20%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 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 22 (26.51%) Investment Management
2 20 (24.10%) Analytics
2 20 (24.10%) Asset Management
2 20 (24.10%) Mentoring
3 16 (19.28%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (19.28%) Data Modelling
4 13 (15.66%) DevOps
5 12 (14.46%) Data Analysis
5 12 (14.46%) Data Management
6 9 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
6 9 (10.84%) Data Science
6 9 (10.84%) Visualisation
7 8 (9.64%) Agile
7 8 (9.64%) Data Analytics
7 8 (9.64%) Decision-Making
7 8 (9.64%) Incident Management
7 8 (9.64%) Proactive Monitoring
7 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (9.64%) Release Management
7 8 (9.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) SQL
2 46 (55.42%) Python
3 25 (30.12%) C#
4 13 (15.66%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.23%) R
6 5 (6.02%) C++
6 5 (6.02%) Java
7 2 (2.41%) Scala
7 2 (2.41%) VBA
8 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.20%) T-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