SQL Analyst Contracts

SQL Analyst
UK

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in the UK is £449, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 480 554
Rank change year-on-year -28 +74 +96
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 45 68 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 56 81
10th Percentile £314 £350 £277
25th Percentile £394 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +14.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £694 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £31.16 - £24.88
90th Percentile £31.45 - £25.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 - £22.50

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 30,099 36,157 49,488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.88% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 23,284 34,166
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,529 2,029 1,475
10th Percentile £13.59 £14.23 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +23.29% +71.36%

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 14 August 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 10 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 14 August 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 -8 40 £435 -17.14% 21
London +11 26 £425 -27.66% 7
Work from Home +6 17 £475 -2.56% 6
UK excluding London -3 13 £475 -5.00% 17
South East +23 7 £500 - 5
North of England -17 4 £270 -36.47% 2
North West -11 2 £265 -29.33% 1
Yorkshire -13 2 £447 -4.89% 1
East of England +11 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £588 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 45 (100.00%) SQL
2 24 (53.33%) Finance
3 23 (51.11%) Python
4 19 (42.22%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (37.78%) Data Analysis
6 16 (35.56%) Power BI
6 16 (35.56%) Power Platform
7 15 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (31.11%) Banking
9 12 (26.67%) Visualisation
10 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
11 10 (22.22%) Analytics
11 10 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
12 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
13 8 (17.78%) Oracle
13 8 (17.78%) AWS
13 8 (17.78%) Degree
13 8 (17.78%) Agile
14 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
14 7 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
14 7 (15.56%) Data Analytics
15 6 (13.33%) Tableau
15 6 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (13.33%) Validation
15 6 (13.33%) JIRA
15 6 (13.33%) R
16 5 (11.11%) Azure
16 5 (11.11%) Migration
16 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
16 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving

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 2 (4.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Superset
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Power Platform
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.22%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) Power BI
2 6 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.33%) Tableau
3 4 (8.89%) Big Data
4 3 (6.67%) GIS
4 3 (6.67%) Impala
4 3 (6.67%) Looker
4 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.44%) Power Query
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.22%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.22%) MS Access
6 1 (2.22%) MySQL
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.22%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) ERwin
3 1 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Selenium
General
1 24 (53.33%) Finance
2 15 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (31.11%) Banking
4 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Front Office
6 2 (4.44%) Local Government
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (8.89%) Reinsurance
1 4 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.67%) Credit Risk
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) Equities
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (37.78%) Data Analysis
3 12 (26.67%) Visualisation
4 10 (22.22%) Analytics
5 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 8 (17.78%) Agile
7 7 (15.56%) Data Analytics
7 7 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (13.33%) Validation
9 5 (11.11%) Migration
9 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
10 4 (8.89%) Fintech
10 4 (8.89%) Performance Analysis
10 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (6.67%) Business Analysis
11 3 (6.67%) Database Tuning
11 3 (6.67%) Decision-Making
11 3 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) SQL
2 23 (51.11%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) R
4 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.44%) VBA
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) HND
2 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.44%) NVQ Level 4
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) HNC
3 1 (2.22%) ISEB
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMP
3 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Workday
4 2 (4.44%) Google
4 2 (4.44%) Sparx
5 1 (2.22%) Aderant
5 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.22%) Cognos
5 1 (2.22%) Concur
5 1 (2.22%) Interwoven
5 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk