SQL Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

SQL Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median SQL Analyst daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 366 498
Rank change year-on-year +84 +132 -15
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Analyst 40 33 90
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 71
10th Percentile £230 £260 £360
25th Percentile £394 £319 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.12% -15.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £563 £463 £580
90th Percentile £589 £537 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £24.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

SQL Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured SQL Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Analyst.

SQL Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL Analyst over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

SQL Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Analyst.

SQL Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring SQL Analyst in the job title.

1 39 (97.50%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) Migration
3 11 (27.50%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (27.50%) Data Migration
3 11 (27.50%) Power Platform
4 10 (25.00%) Power BI
4 10 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 9 (22.50%) Finance
5 9 (22.50%) Python
6 7 (17.50%) Visualisation
6 7 (17.50%) Azure
7 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.00%) ETL
7 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (12.50%) Tableau
8 5 (12.50%) T-SQL
8 5 (12.50%) Validation
8 5 (12.50%) Agile
9 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
9 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
10 3 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (7.50%) Low-Code
10 3 (7.50%) Data Strategy
10 3 (7.50%) DevOps

SQL Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (5.00%) Mendix
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Jadu
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SystmOne
2 1 (2.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Power Platform
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.50%) dbt
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (25.00%) Power BI
3 5 (12.50%) Tableau
4 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (5.00%) Spotfire
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.50%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (2.50%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.50%) OLAP
7 1 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (2.50%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Billing
4 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Advertising
5 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Shiny
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) MDX
2 1 (2.50%) PySpark
2 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.00%) IoT
2 2 (5.00%) NHS
2 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Migration
2 11 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (27.50%) Data Migration
3 10 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 7 (17.50%) Visualisation
5 6 (15.00%) ETL
5 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (12.50%) Agile
6 5 (12.50%) Validation
7 4 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (7.50%) Data Integration
8 3 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (7.50%) Data Strategy
8 3 (7.50%) DevOps
9 2 (5.00%) Data Transformation
9 2 (5.00%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (97.50%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) R
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Ab Initio
2 1 (2.50%) Apple
2 1 (2.50%) Databricks
2 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.50%) SYSPRO