SQL Analyst Contracts in England

SQL Analyst
UK > England

The median SQL Analyst daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 543 563
Rank change year-on-year +73 +20 -137
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 81 94 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.21% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 72 170
10th Percentile £373 £320 £325
25th Percentile £463 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £550
90th Percentile £850 - £619
UK median daily rate £575 £469 £506
% change year-on-year +22.67% -7.41% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £21.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

SQL Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Analyst in England

SQL Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +89 56 £625 +13.64% 6
South East +13 12 £475 +18.75% 1
North of England +20 5 £425 -2.86% 2
North West +19 3 £375 -11.76%
South West +7 3 £500 -23.08% 3
Midlands +21 2 £463 -17.78%
Yorkshire +17 2 £470 -16.81% 1
East Midlands +13 2 £463 -7.50%
SQL Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, SQL 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 across the England region featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) SQL
2 44 (54.32%) Python
3 33 (40.74%) Finance
4 29 (35.80%) Banking
5 24 (29.63%) Derivative
6 23 (28.40%) Front Office
6 23 (28.40%) C#
7 20 (24.69%) Hedge funds
7 20 (24.69%) Analytics
8 18 (22.22%) Mentoring
8 18 (22.22%) Investment Management
8 18 (22.22%) Asset Management
8 18 (22.22%) Back Office
9 16 (19.75%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (16.05%) Social Skills
11 12 (14.81%) Power Platform
11 12 (14.81%) DevOps
11 12 (14.81%) ITRS Geneos
11 12 (14.81%) Dynatrace
11 12 (14.81%) Power BI
11 12 (14.81%) Windows
11 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
12 11 (13.58%) Data Analysis
12 11 (13.58%) Data Modelling
12 11 (13.58%) Tableau
13 10 (12.35%) Data Quality
13 10 (12.35%) Actionable Insight
13 10 (12.35%) Visualisation
14 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
14 9 (11.11%) Migration

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (4.94%) SAS
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) SPSS
3 2 (2.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.81%) Power Platform
2 6 (7.41%) AWS
2 6 (7.41%) Azure
3 5 (6.17%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.23%) dbt
5 1 (1.23%) GitHub
5 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Power BI
2 11 (13.58%) Tableau
3 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.94%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (3.70%) Big Data
7 2 (2.47%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.47%) Impala
7 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.23%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Artifactory
1 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
1 5 (6.17%) Subversion
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 33 (40.74%) Finance
2 29 (35.80%) Banking
3 23 (28.40%) Front Office
4 18 (22.22%) Back Office
5 13 (16.05%) Social Skills
6 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (8.64%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.47%) Billing
9 2 (2.47%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Legal
9 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Law
10 1 (1.23%) Local Government
10 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Publishing
10 1 (1.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) Middleware
2 5 (6.17%) .NET
3 4 (4.94%) D3.js
4 1 (1.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (29.63%) Derivative
2 20 (24.69%) Hedge funds
3 5 (6.17%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.47%) Equities
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Windows
2 7 (8.64%) Linux
3 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.69%) Analytics
2 18 (22.22%) Asset Management
2 18 (22.22%) Investment Management
2 18 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 16 (19.75%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (14.81%) DevOps
5 11 (13.58%) Data Analysis
5 11 (13.58%) Data Modelling
6 10 (12.35%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (12.35%) Visualisation
7 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 9 (11.11%) Data Science
7 9 (11.11%) Migration
8 8 (9.88%) Data Management
8 8 (9.88%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (8.64%) Agile
9 7 (8.64%) Incident Management
9 7 (8.64%) Proactive Monitoring
9 7 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) SQL
2 44 (54.32%) Python
3 23 (28.40%) C#
4 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.41%) R
6 5 (6.17%) C++
6 5 (6.17%) Java
7 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.47%) VBA
9 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.23%) Degree
1 1 (1.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.23%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (8.64%) Grafana
3 5 (6.17%) Ansible
3 5 (6.17%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Dynatrace
2 7 (8.64%) IBM
3 5 (6.17%) Altiris
3 5 (6.17%) Citrix
4 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.70%) Databricks
6 1 (1.23%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.23%) NEC
6 1 (1.23%) Northgate
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle
6 1 (1.23%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce