SQL Analyst Contracts

SQL Analyst
UK

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in the UK 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 465 492 596
Rank change year-on-year +27 +104 +18
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 55 90 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 85 91
10th Percentile £309 £370 £320
25th Percentile £370 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £556 £663 £584
90th Percentile £650 £850 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -11.05% +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £29.33 - -
25th Percentile £29.71 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.36 - £21.50
75th Percentile £31.00 - £21.75
90th Percentile £31.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 - £21.50

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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
England +20 50 £424 -29.38% 10
London +14 37 £425 -32.00% 4
Work from Home +17 20 £500 -20.00% 10
UK excluding London +54 15 £423 -11.05% 6
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%
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -
Wales - 1 £238 -

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

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 featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) SQL
2 29 (52.73%) Python
3 22 (40.00%) Banking
3 22 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (38.18%) Finance
5 20 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (34.55%) Power BI
6 19 (34.55%) Power Platform
7 17 (30.91%) Data Analysis
8 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
9 13 (23.64%) Analytics
9 13 (23.64%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (20.00%) Data Modelling
10 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
10 11 (20.00%) Oracle
11 10 (18.18%) Tableau
12 9 (16.36%) AWS
13 8 (14.55%) Validation
13 8 (14.55%) Migration
13 8 (14.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (14.55%) Agile
13 8 (14.55%) Visualisation
14 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
14 7 (12.73%) Investment Banking
14 7 (12.73%) Front Office
15 6 (10.91%) Unix
15 6 (10.91%) ETL
15 6 (10.91%) Azure
15 6 (10.91%) Electronic Trading

SQL 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.45%) Confluence
1 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Fidessa
1 2 (3.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) Power Platform
2 9 (16.36%) AWS
3 6 (10.91%) Azure
4 3 (5.45%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.82%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.82%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.82%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (1.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) FIX Connectivity
1 2 (3.64%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.82%) DHCP
2 1 (1.82%) DNS
2 1 (1.82%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (34.55%) Power BI
2 13 (23.64%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (18.18%) Tableau
4 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
5 5 (9.09%) Big Data
5 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.27%) MySQL
7 3 (5.45%) Apache Hive
7 3 (5.45%) Impala
7 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.45%) Power Query
8 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.64%) Looker
8 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.82%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.82%) MS Access
9 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) ERwin
3 1 (1.82%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 22 (40.00%) Banking
2 21 (38.18%) Finance
3 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Front Office
4 7 (12.73%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.27%) French Language
6 3 (5.45%) Marketing
6 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.82%) Pandas
2 1 (1.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 5 (9.09%) Reference Data
3 4 (7.27%) Derivative
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.64%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.64%) Eurex
4 2 (3.64%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.82%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.82%) Equities
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Unix
2 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) Windows
3 2 (3.64%) CentOS
3 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.82%) Debian
4 1 (1.82%) Fedora
4 1 (1.82%) Rocky
4 1 (1.82%) Solaris
4 1 (1.82%) SUSE
4 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.82%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (30.91%) Data Analysis
3 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (23.64%) Analytics
5 11 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 8 (14.55%) Agile
6 8 (14.55%) Migration
6 8 (14.55%) Validation
6 8 (14.55%) Visualisation
7 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.91%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (10.91%) Electronic Trading
8 6 (10.91%) ETL
9 5 (9.09%) Data Analytics
9 5 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (9.09%) Database Tuning
9 5 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 5 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (7.27%) Project Management
11 3 (5.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) SQL
2 29 (52.73%) Python
3 4 (7.27%) R
4 2 (3.64%) Bash
4 2 (3.64%) Perl
4 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) HNC
4 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.27%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.82%) HDFS
1 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Rundeck
1 2 (3.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.64%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.64%) CQG
3 2 (3.64%) Databricks
3 2 (3.64%) Google
3 2 (3.64%) Informatica
3 2 (3.64%) ION Trading
3 2 (3.64%) Patsystems
3 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.64%) Reuters
3 2 (3.64%) Sparx
3 2 (3.64%) Talend
3 2 (3.64%) Trayport
3 2 (3.64%) Workday
4 1 (1.82%) Aderant
4 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.82%) Splunk
4 1 (1.82%) VMware