SQL Analyst Contracts in England

SQL Analyst
UK > England

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in England is £424, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 455 545
Rank change year-on-year +20 +90 +16
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 50 87 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 84 83
10th Percentile £314 £382 £328
25th Percentile £375 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.38% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £555 £663 £588
90th Percentile £645 £850 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -29.17% +20.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £29.33 - -
25th Percentile £29.71 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.36 - £21.50
75th Percentile £31.00 - £21.75
90th Percentile £31.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.36 - £21.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +14 37 £425 -32.00% 4
South East +40 6 £449 -5.53% 2
North of England +19 4 £410 -0.61% 1
Yorkshire +10 3 £410 -20.39% 1
East of England +31 2 - -
South West +42 1 £475 -
North West +15 1 £395 +5.33%
SQL Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 50 (100.00%) SQL
2 26 (52.00%) Python
3 21 (42.00%) Banking
3 21 (42.00%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (40.00%) Finance
5 18 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (34.00%) Power BI
6 17 (34.00%) Power Platform
7 16 (32.00%) Data Analysis
8 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
10 12 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (22.00%) Analytics
12 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
12 10 (20.00%) Oracle
13 9 (18.00%) Data Modelling
13 9 (18.00%) AWS
14 8 (16.00%) Tableau
14 8 (16.00%) Validation
14 8 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (14.00%) Migration
15 7 (14.00%) Front Office
15 7 (14.00%) Investment Banking
15 7 (14.00%) Agile
15 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
16 6 (12.00%) Visualisation
16 6 (12.00%) Azure
16 6 (12.00%) Relational Database
16 6 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
16 6 (12.00%) Electronic Trading

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 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.00%) Confluence
1 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Fidessa
1 2 (4.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) Azure
4 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.00%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.00%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) FIX Connectivity
1 2 (4.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) Power BI
2 12 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (16.00%) Tableau
4 6 (12.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (10.00%) Big Data
5 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.00%) Apache Hive
6 3 (6.00%) Impala
6 3 (6.00%) MySQL
6 3 (6.00%) Power Query
7 2 (4.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.00%) GIS
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (2.00%) MS Access
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) ERwin
3 1 (2.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 21 (42.00%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (42.00%) Banking
2 20 (40.00%) Finance
3 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Front Office
4 7 (14.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.00%) French Language
6 3 (6.00%) Marketing
7 2 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.00%) Pandas
2 1 (2.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (10.00%) Hedge funds
2 5 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 4 (8.00%) Derivative
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.00%) Eurex
4 2 (4.00%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Bitcoin
5 1 (2.00%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.00%) Equities
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Unix
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
3 2 (4.00%) CentOS
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Debian
4 1 (2.00%) Fedora
4 1 (2.00%) Rocky
4 1 (2.00%) Solaris
4 1 (2.00%) SUSE
4 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (32.00%) Data Analysis
3 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (22.00%) Analytics
5 9 (18.00%) Data Modelling
6 8 (16.00%) Validation
7 7 (14.00%) Agile
7 7 (14.00%) Migration
7 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (12.00%) Electronic Trading
8 6 (12.00%) Visualisation
9 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 4 (8.00%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (8.00%) Database Tuning
10 4 (8.00%) ETL
10 4 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (8.00%) Project Management
11 3 (6.00%) Service Delivery
11 3 (6.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) SQL
2 26 (52.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) R
4 2 (4.00%) Bash
4 2 (4.00%) Perl
4 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) HNC
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Rundeck
1 2 (4.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (4.00%) CQG
3 2 (4.00%) Databricks
3 2 (4.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) Informatica
3 2 (4.00%) ION Trading
3 2 (4.00%) Patsystems
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.00%) Reuters
3 2 (4.00%) Sparx
3 2 (4.00%) Talend
3 2 (4.00%) Trayport
3 2 (4.00%) Workday
4 1 (2.00%) Aderant
4 1 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.00%) Interwoven
4 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk