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 £423, 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 321 375 425
Rank change year-on-year +54 +50 +23
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 15 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 25
10th Percentile £315 £325 £285
25th Percentile £393 £371 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £497 £500
90th Percentile £528 £518 £613
UK median daily rate £425 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -29.17% +20.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.36 - £21.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
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%
Wales - 1 £238 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -
SQL Analyst
UK

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (73.33%) Power BI
2 11 (73.33%) Power Platform
3 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (46.67%) Tableau
4 7 (46.67%) Data Analysis
5 6 (40.00%) Python
5 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (33.33%) Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
7 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (26.67%) Oracle
7 4 (26.67%) AWS
7 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
8 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
8 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 3 (20.00%) Azure
8 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (20.00%) QA
8 3 (20.00%) Agile
8 3 (20.00%) Finance
9 2 (13.33%) Validation
9 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (13.33%) ETL
9 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis

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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) Power BI
2 7 (46.67%) Tableau
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) ERwin
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (46.67%) Data Analysis
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Logical Data Model
6 2 (13.33%) Physical Data Model
6 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
7 1 (6.67%) Backlog Refinement
7 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Sparx
2 2 (13.33%) Workday
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.67%) Talend
3 1 (6.67%) VMware