SQL Server Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 63 77
Rank change year-on-year +8 +14 -28
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 16 52 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.00% 4.05% 2.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.03% 17.33% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 41
10th Percentile £325 £401 £325
25th Percentile £363 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £788 £594 £525
90th Percentile £823 £650 £575
Scotland median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Scotland median hourly rate - £70.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - +143.48% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 145 300 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.10% 23.36% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 249 231
10th Percentile £363 £403 £381
25th Percentile £430 £438 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -2.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £625
Scotland median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.44
25th Percentile - - £16.76
Median hourly rate - - £21.75
75th Percentile - - £29.00
90th Percentile - - £33.50
Scotland median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.25%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) LAN
1 4 (25.00%) WAN
2 3 (18.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Selenium
1 5 (31.25%) WebDriver
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Automation Tester
1 5 (31.25%) Tester
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) React
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.25%) MassTransit
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
2 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
3 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Organisational Awareness
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
6 1 (6.25%) Data Security
6 1 (6.25%) ERP
6 1 (6.25%) ETL
6 1 (6.25%) MVC
6 1 (6.25%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CCNA
1 4 (25.00%) CCNP
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) F5
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk