SQL Analyst
UK

The median SQL Analyst salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary 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 708 807 773
Rank change year-on-year +99 -34 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 186 186 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.19% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 134 173 422
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Analyst.

Salary trend for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Analyst in the UK

SQL Analyst
Top 14 Job Locations

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +84 144 £61,500 +11.82% 8
UK excluding London +50 110 £40,000 -5.88% 6
London +93 75 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Work from Home +74 72 £62,500 +19.05% 4
Wales +41 36 £32,500 -18.75%
South East +42 30 £40,000 -5.88% 1
North of England +40 16 £37,500 -5.06% 1
South West -13 15 £43,500 -13.00% 2
North West +10 11 £37,500 +36.36% 1
East of England +27 7 £45,000 -28.00% 1
Yorkshire +90 5 £31,500 -25.88%
Scotland -56 5 £35,000 - 1
West Midlands +22 1 £28,500 -15.56% 1
Midlands +2 1 £28,500 -15.56% 1

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

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

1 186 (100.00%) SQL
2 78 (41.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (35.48%) Power Platform
4 64 (34.41%) Power BI
5 57 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (30.11%) Microsoft Office
7 55 (29.57%) Degree
8 54 (29.03%) Finance
9 51 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
10 49 (26.34%) Linux
10 49 (26.34%) Performance Tuning
11 48 (25.81%) Performance Monitoring
11 48 (25.81%) Oracle Database
11 48 (25.81%) Solaris
11 48 (25.81%) Oracle
11 48 (25.81%) Unix
12 47 (25.27%) PL/SQL
13 46 (24.73%) Artificial Intelligence
13 46 (24.73%) Actionable Insight
14 45 (24.19%) ITSM
14 45 (24.19%) Oracle RMAN
14 45 (24.19%) WebLogic
14 45 (24.19%) MS Visio
14 45 (24.19%) SLA
14 45 (24.19%) VLDB
14 45 (24.19%) Oracle Database 10g
14 45 (24.19%) Sun
14 45 (24.19%) Remedy
14 45 (24.19%) Incident Management
14 45 (24.19%) Oracle RAC

SQL 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 45 (24.19%) Oracle Service Bus
1 45 (24.19%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.61%) Apache
3 3 (1.61%) GlassFish
3 3 (1.61%) JBoss
3 3 (1.61%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.08%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
Applications
1 78 (41.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (30.11%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (24.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (24.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.69%) Epicor Tropos
3 3 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.61%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 66 (35.48%) Power Platform
2 38 (20.43%) Azure
3 7 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (3.76%) Snowflake
4 6 (3.23%) SaaS
5 5 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.15%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.08%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.61%) DHCP
1 3 (1.61%) DNS
1 3 (1.61%) LAN
1 3 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.61%) WAN
2 2 (1.08%) Internet
2 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (34.41%) Power BI
2 48 (25.81%) Oracle Database
3 45 (24.19%) Oracle Database 10g
3 45 (24.19%) Oracle Database 11g
3 45 (24.19%) VLDB
4 24 (12.90%) SQL Server
5 20 (10.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (10.22%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.30%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.15%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (2.15%) Tableau
11 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.61%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.08%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (1.08%) SSDT
12 2 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.61%) JIRA
2 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (29.03%) Finance
3 38 (20.43%) Social Skills
4 29 (15.59%) Back Office
4 29 (15.59%) Front Office
5 27 (14.52%) Banking
6 19 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.76%) Retail Banking
8 6 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.69%) Retail
10 4 (2.15%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.54%) French Language
12 1 (0.54%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
12 1 (0.54%) Local Government
12 1 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.61%) LDAP
1 3 (1.61%) SAML
2 2 (1.08%) .NET
2 2 (1.08%) REST
2 2 (1.08%) XML
3 1 (0.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.59%) Derivative
2 27 (14.52%) Hedge funds
3 11 (5.91%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (5.38%) Reinsurance
5 6 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.08%) Equities
8 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.34%) Linux
2 48 (25.81%) Solaris
2 48 (25.81%) Unix
3 7 (3.76%) Windows
4 3 (1.61%) AIX
4 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (26.34%) Performance Tuning
3 48 (25.81%) Performance Monitoring
4 46 (24.73%) Actionable Insight
4 46 (24.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 45 (24.19%) Capacity Planning
5 45 (24.19%) Incident Management
5 45 (24.19%) ITSM
6 44 (23.66%) Capacity Management
6 44 (23.66%) Release Management
7 31 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 29 (15.59%) Asset Management
8 29 (15.59%) Investment Management
9 27 (14.52%) Visualisation
10 22 (11.83%) Analytics
11 21 (11.29%) Data Analysis
12 18 (9.68%) Migration
13 15 (8.06%) Agile
14 14 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 186 (100.00%) SQL
2 47 (25.27%) PL/SQL
3 40 (21.51%) Python
4 34 (18.28%) C#
5 21 (11.29%) T-SQL
6 14 (7.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.23%) Java
8 3 (1.61%) R
9 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (29.57%) Degree
2 45 (24.19%) SC Cleared
2 45 (24.19%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.23%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (24.19%) SLA
2 10 (5.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (24.19%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (24.19%) Data Guard
1 45 (24.19%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (1.61%) Oracle Statspack
2 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.08%) Control-M
Vendors
1 48 (25.81%) Oracle
2 45 (24.19%) Remedy
2 45 (24.19%) Sun
3 24 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.69%) Epicor
5 4 (2.15%) Northgate
6 3 (1.61%) NEC
6 3 (1.61%) New Relic
6 3 (1.61%) NGA Human Resources
6 3 (1.61%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.61%) VMware
7 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.54%) Capita
8 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.54%) Talend