SQL Data Analyst Contracts in England

SQL Data Analyst
UK > England

The median SQL Data Analyst daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 500 603
Rank change year-on-year +43 +103 +63
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Data Analyst 29 41 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 54
10th Percentile £279 £363 £322
25th Percentile £348 £425 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -7.14% +2.44%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £580
90th Percentile £635 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -11.69% -3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.64 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 - -

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 22,595 34,453 47,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,023 22,865 33,797
10th Percentile £300 £280 £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 £640 £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 899 2,434 1,402
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

SQL Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Data Analyst in England

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in England

SQL Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Data Analyst in England

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in England

SQL Data 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 Data Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +43 21 £500 -16.67% 1
South East +41 5 £475 +2.70% 2
North of England +23 2 £410 -0.61%
Yorkshire - 2 £410 -
East of England +29 1 - -
SQL Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, SQL Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (51.72%) Data Analysis
2 15 (51.72%) Python
3 14 (48.28%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (41.38%) Finance
5 11 (37.93%) Power BI
5 11 (37.93%) Analytics
5 11 (37.93%) Power Platform
6 10 (34.48%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (31.03%) Banking
8 8 (27.59%) Tableau
8 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
9 7 (24.14%) AWS
9 7 (24.14%) Oracle
10 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
10 6 (20.69%) Front Office
10 6 (20.69%) Validation
10 6 (20.69%) Investment Banking
10 6 (20.69%) Agile
11 5 (17.24%) Migration
11 5 (17.24%) Hedge funds
11 5 (17.24%) Reference Data
11 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
11 5 (17.24%) Big Data
11 5 (17.24%) Relational Database
11 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
12 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
12 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics

SQL Data 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 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Power Platform
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) Google Ads
4 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (3.45%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Power BI
2 10 (34.48%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (27.59%) Tableau
4 5 (17.24%) Big Data
4 5 (17.24%) Relational Database
5 3 (10.34%) Apache Hive
5 3 (10.34%) Impala
6 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.45%) GIS
7 1 (3.45%) MySQL
7 1 (3.45%) Power Query
7 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.45%) Sqoop
7 1 (3.45%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) ERwin
3 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 14 (48.28%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Finance
3 9 (31.03%) Banking
4 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
5 6 (20.69%) Front Office
5 6 (20.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.45%) Marketing
7 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Pandas
1 1 (3.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Hedge funds
1 5 (17.24%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.45%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Data Analysis
2 12 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (37.93%) Analytics
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.69%) Validation
5 5 (17.24%) Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
6 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (13.79%) Database Tuning
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.79%) Project Management
6 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
7 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (10.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (51.72%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.90%) R
3 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) HDFS
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Sparx
2 2 (6.90%) Workday
3 1 (3.45%) Aderant
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.45%) Cognos
3 1 (3.45%) Google