SQL Data Analyst Contracts

SQL Data Analyst
UK

The median SQL Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £494 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 622 734
Rank change year-on-year +87 +112 -212
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Data Analyst 44 78 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 59 99
10th Percentile £363 £320 £313
25th Percentile £425 £393 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +25.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

SQL Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Data Analyst over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +84 41 £500 -4.76% 3
London +77 21 £600 +14.29% 1
UK excluding London +73 19 £463 -2.63% 2
Work from Home +92 17 £475 -6.63% 2
South East +33 10 £463 -
South West +27 5 £475 -26.92%
Midlands +29 2 £463 -26.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £463 -
North of England +20 1 £450 - 1
North West +17 1 £450 +9.09% 1
East of England +11 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, SQL Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) SQL
2 19 (43.18%) Data Modelling
3 14 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (29.55%) Finance
5 12 (27.27%) Python
5 12 (27.27%) Data Analysis
5 12 (27.27%) Analytics
6 11 (25.00%) Power BI
6 11 (25.00%) Power Platform
7 10 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (22.73%) Data Quality
8 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (20.45%) Agile
8 9 (20.45%) Decision-Making
8 9 (20.45%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
9 8 (18.18%) Migration
9 8 (18.18%) Data Cleansing
10 7 (15.91%) Tableau
10 7 (15.91%) R
10 7 (15.91%) Data Analytics
10 7 (15.91%) Data Science
11 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
11 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
12 5 (11.36%) Data Visualisation
12 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
12 5 (11.36%) Data Management
12 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (11.36%) SAS
12 5 (11.36%) Eclipse

SQL Data 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 5 (11.36%) SAS
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) SPSS
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.82%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) AWS
3 2 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub
4 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Power BI
2 7 (15.91%) Tableau
3 4 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.55%) Big Data
5 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.27%) Impala
6 1 (2.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Eclipse
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (29.55%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Banking
6 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.55%) Marketing
7 2 (4.55%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Legal
8 1 (2.27%) Local Government
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) D3.js
2 1 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (6.82%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.27%) Equities
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.27%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Data Modelling
2 14 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (27.27%) Analytics
3 12 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 9 (20.45%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (20.45%) Agile
4 9 (20.45%) Decision-Making
5 8 (18.18%) Data Cleansing
5 8 (18.18%) Migration
6 7 (15.91%) Data Analytics
6 7 (15.91%) Data Science
7 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
7 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
8 5 (11.36%) Data Management
8 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (9.09%) Customer Experience
9 4 (9.09%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) SQL
2 12 (27.27%) Python
3 7 (15.91%) R
4 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.27%) Scala
4 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Databricks
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.27%) Splunk