SQL Analyst Contracts in London

SQL Analyst
England > London

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in London is £425, 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 316 330 419
Rank change year-on-year +14 +89 +17
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 37 61 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.37% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 60 58
10th Percentile £313 £450 £336
25th Percentile £369 £573 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £558 £691 £600
90th Percentile £650 £850 -
England median daily rate £424 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -29.38% +20.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.07 - -
England median hourly rate £30.36 - £21.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in London

SQL Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Analyst in London

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Analyst in London

SQL Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Analyst in London

SQL Analyst
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +4 7 £540 -9.05% 1
West London - 1 - -
SQL Analyst
England

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

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 London region featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) SQL
2 21 (56.76%) Python
3 19 (51.35%) Banking
4 17 (45.95%) Finance
4 17 (45.95%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (27.03%) Data Analysis
7 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
8 8 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (21.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (18.92%) Front Office
9 7 (18.92%) Migration
9 7 (18.92%) Oracle
9 7 (18.92%) Power BI
9 7 (18.92%) Analytics
9 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
10 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Excel
10 6 (16.22%) Unix
10 6 (16.22%) Investment Banking
10 6 (16.22%) Validation
10 6 (16.22%) Electronic Trading
10 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
11 5 (13.51%) Reference Data
11 5 (13.51%) Agile
11 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
11 5 (13.51%) Big Data
11 5 (13.51%) AWS
11 5 (13.51%) Hedge funds
12 4 (10.81%) R

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.51%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Azure
4 1 (2.70%) Google Ads
4 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.70%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) FIX Connectivity
1 2 (5.41%) Wireshark
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (18.92%) Power BI
3 5 (13.51%) Big Data
4 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.11%) Apache Hive
5 3 (8.11%) Impala
5 3 (8.11%) Power Query
5 3 (8.11%) Tableau
6 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.41%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.70%) GIS
7 1 (2.70%) MS Access
7 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.70%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 19 (51.35%) Banking
2 17 (45.95%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (45.95%) Finance
3 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
4 7 (18.92%) Front Office
5 6 (16.22%) Investment Banking
6 4 (10.81%) French Language
7 3 (8.11%) Marketing
8 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Legal
9 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (13.51%) Hedge funds
2 5 (13.51%) Reference Data
3 4 (10.81%) Derivative
4 2 (5.41%) Eurex
4 2 (5.41%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.70%) Bitcoin
5 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.70%) Equities
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Unix
2 3 (8.11%) Linux
3 2 (5.41%) CentOS
3 2 (5.41%) Windows
4 1 (2.70%) Debian
4 1 (2.70%) Fedora
4 1 (2.70%) Rocky
4 1 (2.70%) Solaris
4 1 (2.70%) SUSE
4 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.70%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.03%) Data Analysis
3 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (18.92%) Analytics
4 7 (18.92%) Migration
5 6 (16.22%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
5 6 (16.22%) Validation
6 5 (13.51%) Agile
6 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.81%) Database Tuning
7 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.81%) Project Management
7 4 (10.81%) Visualisation
8 3 (8.11%) Data Analytics
8 3 (8.11%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (8.11%) ETL
8 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
8 3 (8.11%) Service Delivery
9 2 (5.41%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) SQL
2 21 (56.76%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) R
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) Perl
4 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) HNC
2 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Rundeck
1 2 (5.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.41%) CQG
3 2 (5.41%) ION Trading
3 2 (5.41%) Patsystems
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) Reuters
3 2 (5.41%) Trayport
4 1 (2.70%) Aderant
4 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.70%) Cognos
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Informatica
4 1 (2.70%) Interwoven
4 1 (2.70%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) Talend