SQL Data Analyst Contracts

SQL Data Analyst
UK

The median SQL Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £481 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 611 717
Rank change year-on-year +76 +106 -211
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Data Analyst 41 73 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 57 101
10th Percentile £363 £297 £313
25th Percentile £416 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -3.90% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £575
90th Percentile £608 £600 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +5.88% -17.07% +28.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

SQL Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Data Analyst over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Data Analyst in the UK

SQL Data Analyst
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Data Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England +90 39 £488 -7.14% 4
London +78 20 £600 +11.63% 1
UK excluding London +54 17 £450 +5.88% 2
Work from Home +95 16 £450 -1.10% 3
South East +19 10 £463 +12.12% 1
South West +12 3 £500 -23.08%
Midlands +28 2 £463 -26.00%
North of England +20 2 £413 -8.33% 1
North West +17 2 £413 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £463 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, SQL Data 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 featuring SQL Data Analyst in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (34.15%) Python
3 13 (31.71%) Data Modelling
3 13 (31.71%) Finance
4 12 (29.27%) Analytics
5 11 (26.83%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (24.39%) Data Analysis
7 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
7 9 (21.95%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
8 8 (19.51%) Agile
9 7 (17.07%) Migration
9 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (17.07%) Tableau
9 7 (17.07%) R
9 7 (17.07%) Data Cleansing
9 7 (17.07%) Visualisation
9 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (17.07%) Power BI
9 7 (17.07%) Data Science
9 7 (17.07%) Power Platform
10 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (14.63%) Data Migration
10 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
11 5 (12.20%) Banking
11 5 (12.20%) SAS
11 5 (12.20%) Data Analytics
12 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making

SQL Data 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 5 (12.20%) SAS
2 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) SPSS
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) Power Platform
2 4 (9.76%) AWS
2 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.44%) dbt
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Power BI
1 7 (17.07%) Tableau
2 4 (9.76%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (7.32%) Big Data
3 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.88%) Impala
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.44%) PowerPivot
5 1 (2.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Eclipse
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
4 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.88%) Legal
7 2 (4.88%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Billing
8 1 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Law
8 1 (2.44%) Local Government
8 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) D3.js
2 1 (2.44%) Middleware
2 1 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.44%) Equities
2 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.44%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Data Modelling
2 12 (29.27%) Analytics
3 11 (26.83%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (24.39%) Data Analysis
5 9 (21.95%) Actionable Insight
6 8 (19.51%) Agile
7 7 (17.07%) Data Cleansing
7 7 (17.07%) Data Science
7 7 (17.07%) Migration
7 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (17.07%) Visualisation
8 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
8 6 (14.63%) Data Migration
8 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.20%) Data Analytics
10 4 (9.76%) CRM
10 4 (9.76%) Data Mapping
10 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
10 4 (9.76%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (34.15%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) R
4 2 (4.88%) Scala
4 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.88%) VBA
5 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) Degree
1 1 (2.44%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Databricks
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.44%) Ab Initio
2 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.44%) Splunk