SQL Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 423 454
Rank change year-on-year +49 +31 -71
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 24 32 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 45
10th Percentile £325 £264 £263
25th Percentile £390 £366 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £424 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% -5.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £491 £498 £538
90th Percentile £500 £631 £575
UK median daily rate £600 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +20.91% -5.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £21.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -59.05% +77.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,245 22,798 29,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 15,968 20,881
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,208 1,203 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.43 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
South East +28 13 £475 +26.67% 1
South West +24 5 £475 -26.92% 1
Midlands +35 3 £450 +9.49%
North of England +22 2 £293 -33.14% 1
North West +12 2 £293 -31.18% 1
East Midlands - 2 £463 -
West Midlands +34 1 £450 +9.49%
East of England +9 1 - - 1
SQL Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Analytics
2 9 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
4 7 (29.17%) Data Cleansing
4 7 (29.17%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
5 6 (25.00%) Python
6 5 (20.83%) SAS
6 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.83%) Data Science
6 5 (20.83%) Tableau
6 5 (20.83%) R
7 4 (16.67%) D3.js
7 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (16.67%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (16.67%) Power BI
7 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
7 4 (16.67%) Customer Experience
7 4 (16.67%) Six Sigma
7 4 (16.67%) Finance
7 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) SPSS
8 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
8 3 (12.50%) Data Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
9 2 (8.33%) JIRA

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (20.83%) SAS
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SPSS
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Tableau
2 4 (16.67%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Local Government
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) D3.js
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Analytics
1 9 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (29.17%) Actionable Insight
3 7 (29.17%) Data Cleansing
3 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) Data Science
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Six Sigma
6 3 (12.50%) Data Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 2 (8.33%) BPMN
7 2 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) R
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft