SQL Analyst Job Trends in England

SQL Analyst
UK > England

The median SQL Analyst salary in England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 595 569
Rank change year-on-year +41 -26 +207
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 43 84 121
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.082% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 30 72 111
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £34,563 £37,500 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £47,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £60,250 - £112,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% -12.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 47,437 44,591 47,245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 92.72% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29,917 23,336 37,002
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SQL Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SQL Analyst job vacancy trend in England

SQL Analyst
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for SQL Analyst job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for SQL Analyst job vacancies in England

SQL Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +24 17 £60,000 -14.29%
South West +25 15 £40,000 -5.88% 1
Midlands +6 5 £45,000 -5.26% 1
West Midlands +25 3 £45,000 +3.45%
South East +22 2 - - 1
North of England +11 2 £40,000 +0.63% 1
Yorkshire -10 2 £40,000 +35.59%
East Midlands -20 2 £41,250 -25.00% 1
East of England - 2 £40,000 - 1
SQL Analyst
UK

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, SQL Analyst 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) SQL
2 16 (37.21%) Data Analysis
3 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 11 (25.58%) JIRA
6 10 (23.26%) Power BI
6 10 (23.26%) Power Platform
7 9 (20.93%) Analytics
7 9 (20.93%) Python
8 8 (18.60%) Business Analysis
8 8 (18.60%) Confluence
9 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
10 6 (13.95%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (13.95%) Azure
10 6 (13.95%) ITIL
10 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
10 6 (13.95%) Validation
10 6 (13.95%) Windows
11 5 (11.63%) DevOps
11 5 (11.63%) ETL
11 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
11 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (11.63%) Visualisation
11 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
12 4 (9.30%) AWS
12 4 (9.30%) Data Validation
12 4 (9.30%) Data Visualisation
12 4 (9.30%) Degree
12 4 (9.30%) QA

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (18.60%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) SAS
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Power Platform
2 6 (13.95%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) AWS
4 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.98%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Datadog
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Power BI
2 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 2 (4.65%) OLAP
5 2 (4.65%) Power Query
6 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.33%) Looker
6 1 (2.33%) Metadata
6 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) SAS EBI
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) .NET
1 2 (4.65%) CSS
1 2 (4.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.65%) AS400
2 2 (4.65%) iSeries
2 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.65%) Solaris
3 2 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Data Analysis
2 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 9 (20.93%) Analytics
6 8 (18.60%) Business Analysis
7 6 (13.95%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (13.95%) ITIL
7 6 (13.95%) Validation
8 5 (11.63%) DevOps
8 5 (11.63%) ETL
8 5 (11.63%) Visualisation
9 4 (9.30%) Data Validation
9 4 (9.30%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (9.30%) Runbook
10 3 (6.98%) CI/CD
10 3 (6.98%) Customer Experience
10 3 (6.98%) Data Engineering
10 3 (6.98%) Decision-Making
10 3 (6.98%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (20.93%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.98%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.65%) C#
4 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) Databricks
3 2 (4.65%) IBM
4 1 (2.33%) Google