Database Analyst Contracts

Database Analyst
UK

The median Database Analyst daily rate in the UK is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 561 676
Rank change year-on-year +25 +115 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Database Analyst 12 24 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.055% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.060% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 6
10th Percentile £240 £279 £336
25th Percentile £345 £429 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +13.51% -11.90%
75th Percentile - £569 £488
90th Percentile - - £519
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £338 £450
% change year-on-year +54.07% -25.00% -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 29,294 40,276 53,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 93.01% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,671 25,908 37,253
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,326 2,804 1,565
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

Database Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Analyst in the UK

Database Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Database Analyst in the UK

Database Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Analyst over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Analyst in the UK

Database Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Analyst in the UK

Database Analyst
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England +44 12 £520 -0.95% 6
Work from Home +28 9 - - 4
UK excluding London +42 6 £520 +54.07% 6
London +32 6 - - 2
South East +40 3 - - 3
South West - 2 £520 -
East of England +26 1 £170 -38.18% 1

Database Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Database 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 featuring Database Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Reference Data
3 4 (33.33%) Database Tuning
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Hedge funds
3 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (33.33%) Validation
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) MCSE
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Replication
5 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance

Database Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Banking
1 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Hedge funds
1 4 (33.33%) Reference Data
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Database Tuning
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 4 (33.33%) Validation
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (16.67%) Data Management
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (16.67%) Database Security
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (16.67%) ETL
2 2 (16.67%) High Availability
2 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) MCSE
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft