SQL Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 652 691
Rank change year-on-year +150 +39 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 66 103 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 59 53 57
10th Percentile - £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £21,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,650 £55,000 £66,250
UK median annual salary £44,500 £62,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -28.80% +16.28% +7.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,046 69,651 52,145
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.93% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,591 49,234 29,921
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Analyst in the UK excluding London

SQL Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +97 31 £43,000 +50.88%
North of England +60 23 £22,500 -40.00%
East Midlands - 18 £37,500 -
West Midlands +80 13 £45,500 +59.65%
North West -1 9 £22,500 -40.00%
Yorkshire +68 7 £22,500 -28.57%
North East - 7 £22,500 -
East of England +35 5 £47,500 +29.25%
Scotland +112 3 £38,000 +8.57%
South East +59 3 £55,000 +7.32% 6
South West +94 1 £57,000 +31.03% 3
SQL Analyst
UK

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 May 2025, SQL Analyst 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 permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) SQL
2 26 (39.39%) Root Cause Analysis
3 25 (37.88%) Agile
4 24 (36.36%) ITSM
4 24 (36.36%) Law
4 24 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 24 (36.36%) SLA
4 24 (36.36%) Confluence
4 24 (36.36%) Incident Management
4 24 (36.36%) JIRA
5 21 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (24.24%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (24.24%) Power BI
6 16 (24.24%) Power Platform
7 15 (22.73%) Microsoft
8 14 (21.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (19.70%) Data Analysis
9 13 (19.70%) Web Services
10 12 (18.18%) Azure
10 12 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (15.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (13.64%) Analytics
12 9 (13.64%) AWS
12 9 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
13 8 (12.12%) Social Skills
13 8 (12.12%) Degree
13 8 (12.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (10.61%) Technical Architecture
14 7 (10.61%) Service Delivery

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (36.36%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.52%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) Power Platform
2 12 (18.18%) Azure
3 9 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.52%) SaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) FTP
2 3 (4.55%) DHCP
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 16 (24.24%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (24.24%) Power BI
3 14 (21.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (12.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (10.61%) MySQL
7 6 (9.09%) Tableau
8 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
9 4 (6.06%) RDBMS
9 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
12 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (1.52%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 24 (36.36%) JIRA
2 10 (15.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.52%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) Subversion
3 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (36.36%) Law
2 8 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Marketing
5 3 (4.55%) Retail
6 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Back Office
7 1 (1.52%) Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Billing
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) Web Services
2 6 (9.09%) HTML
3 5 (7.58%) JSON
3 5 (7.58%) REST
3 5 (7.58%) SOAP
3 5 (7.58%) XML
4 1 (1.52%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.52%) Derivative
2 1 (1.52%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (39.39%) Root Cause Analysis
2 25 (37.88%) Agile
3 24 (36.36%) Incident Management
3 24 (36.36%) ITSM
4 21 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (19.70%) Data Analysis
6 12 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (13.64%) Analytics
7 9 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (10.61%) ERP
8 7 (10.61%) SDLC
8 7 (10.61%) Service Delivery
8 7 (10.61%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (9.09%) Data Analytics
9 6 (9.09%) Data Modelling
10 5 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (6.06%) Database Tuning
11 4 (6.06%) Software Engineering
11 4 (6.06%) Validation
11 4 (6.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (9.09%) Python
2 6 (9.09%) T-SQL
3 3 (4.55%) VBA
4 2 (3.03%) R
5 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.52%) PHP
5 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (36.36%) SLA
2 1 (1.52%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) SAP
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) JD Edwards
4 2 (3.03%) QAD
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.52%) Intapp
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) Zoho