Hybrid/Remote SQL Analyst Contract Job Trends

SQL Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median SQL Analyst daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 275 357
Rank change year-on-year -30 +82 +124
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 13 41 34
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.34% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.36% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 33 25
10th Percentile £318 £231 £232
25th Percentile £391 £405 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +13.89% -12.83%
75th Percentile £450 £563 £570
90th Percentile £566 £645 £663
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -10.53% -11.63% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - - £22.44
Median hourly rate - - £24.25
75th Percentile - - £25.44
90th Percentile - - £25.78
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - £24.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SQL Analyst' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SQL Analyst job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid SQL Analyst job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid SQL Analyst job vacancies

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL Analyst over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

SQL Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SQL Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid SQL Analyst job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid SQL Analyst job vacancies

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, SQL Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (69.23%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (69.23%) Data Analysis
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 7 (53.85%) Power BI
3 7 (53.85%) Power Platform
3 7 (53.85%) Visualisation
4 6 (46.15%) AWS
4 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (46.15%) Process Improvement
4 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (46.15%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) JIRA
7 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (7.69%) Apache Superset
7 1 (7.69%) Big Data
7 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
7 1 (7.69%) Change Data Capture
7 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
7 1 (7.69%) Confluence
7 1 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (7.69%) CRM
7 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
7 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Superset
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Power Platform
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Impala
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
3 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (30.77%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Front Office
5 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Reinsurance
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Data Analysis
2 7 (53.85%) Visualisation
3 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (46.15%) Process Improvement
3 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (46.15%) Validation
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Change Data Capture
6 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.69%) Logistic Regression
6 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
6 1 (7.69%) Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Project Management
6 1 (7.69%) Stress Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) R
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) PERC
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft