SQL Data Analyst Contracts in London

SQL Data Analyst
England > London

The median SQL Data Analyst daily rate in London is £500, 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 333 370 440
Rank change year-on-year +37 +70 +68
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Data Analyst 20 21 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 40
10th Percentile £266 £425 £320
25th Percentile £326 £531 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% +3.61%
75th Percentile £564 - £580
90th Percentile £688 £638 £600
England median daily rate £463 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -6.33% -5.95% +2.44%

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 Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Data Analyst in London

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in London

SQL Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL Data Analyst in London

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in London

SQL Data 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 Data 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 +5 6 £545 -12.80%
SQL Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring SQL Data Analyst in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 9 (45.00%) Banking
3 9 (45.00%) Data Analysis
4 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (30.00%) Front Office
5 6 (30.00%) Investment Banking
5 6 (30.00%) Analytics
6 5 (25.00%) Big Data
6 5 (25.00%) Hedge funds
6 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (25.00%) Reference Data
6 5 (25.00%) Validation
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (25.00%) Oracle
7 4 (20.00%) Project Management
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) AWS
7 4 (20.00%) Database Tuning
7 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (15.00%) Impala
8 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
8 3 (15.00%) Apache Hive
8 3 (15.00%) Tableau

SQL Data 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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Google Ads
3 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (5.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (25.00%) Big Data
3 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (15.00%) Apache Hive
4 3 (15.00%) Impala
4 3 (15.00%) Power BI
4 3 (15.00%) Tableau
5 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
6 1 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (5.00%) GIS
6 1 (5.00%) MySQL
6 1 (5.00%) Power Query
6 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Sqoop
6 1 (5.00%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 11 (55.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Banking
2 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 6 (30.00%) Front Office
3 6 (30.00%) Investment Banking
4 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 5 (25.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (30.00%) Analytics
3 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (25.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Validation
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Database Tuning
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (10.00%) ETL
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
6 2 (10.00%) Software Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.00%) R
3 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Aderant
3 1 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (5.00%) Cognos
3 1 (5.00%) Google