SQL Data Analyst Contracts

SQL Data Analyst
UK

The median SQL Data 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 490 537 639
Rank change year-on-year +47 +102 +92
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Data Analyst 30 45 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 61
10th Percentile £287 £363 £320
25th Percentile £363 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £580
90th Percentile £620 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.83% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.64 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 - -

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 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 1 May 2025.

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 9 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 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 +43 28 £463 -6.33% 5
London +37 20 £500 -16.67% 1
Work from Home +33 10 £443 -4.32% 5
UK excluding London +52 9 £424 -5.83% 4
South East +41 5 £475 +2.70% 2
North of England +19 2 £410 -0.61%
Yorkshire - 2 £410 -
East of England +30 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 15 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (46.67%) Python
4 12 (40.00%) Finance
4 12 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (36.67%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (36.67%) Analytics
5 11 (36.67%) Power BI
5 11 (36.67%) Power Platform
6 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 10 (33.33%) Banking
7 8 (26.67%) Tableau
8 7 (23.33%) AWS
8 7 (23.33%) Oracle
9 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 6 (20.00%) Front Office
9 6 (20.00%) Agile
9 6 (20.00%) Investment Banking
9 6 (20.00%) Validation
9 6 (20.00%) Migration
9 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
10 5 (16.67%) Hedge funds
10 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
10 5 (16.67%) Reference Data
10 5 (16.67%) Big Data
10 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
11 4 (13.33%) Data Analytics
11 4 (13.33%) Data Quality

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 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Power Platform
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (3.33%) Azure
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) Google Ads
4 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.33%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (3.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (36.67%) Power BI
2 8 (26.67%) Tableau
3 5 (16.67%) Big Data
3 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 3 (10.00%) Impala
5 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.33%) GIS
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL
6 1 (3.33%) Power Query
6 1 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.33%) Sqoop
6 1 (3.33%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) ERwin
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 15 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (40.00%) Finance
3 10 (33.33%) Banking
3 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (20.00%) Front Office
4 6 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Pandas
1 1 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Hedge funds
1 5 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.33%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 12 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (36.67%) Analytics
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.00%) Migration
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Validation
5 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 4 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (13.33%) Data Analytics
6 4 (13.33%) Database Tuning
6 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.33%) Project Management
6 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (10.00%) ETL
7 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.67%) R
3 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) HDFS
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Sparx
3 2 (6.67%) Workday
4 1 (3.33%) Aderant
4 1 (3.33%) Adobe
4 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.33%) Cognos
4 1 (3.33%) Google