SQL Contracts in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 13 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 71 150 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.78% 11.63% 11.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.68% 31.19% 42.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 113 153
10th Percentile £363 £380 £363
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% - +12.76%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £600 £625
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.90
25th Percentile - - £26.50
Median hourly rate - - £29.50
75th Percentile - - £34.00
90th Percentile - - £35.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.64 £66.56 £40.00
% change year-on-year -67.49% +66.43% -39.86%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

SQL is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 199 481 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.60% 37.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 380 360
10th Percentile £400 £403 £398
25th Percentile £421 £436 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +1.00% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £550
90th Percentile £634 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £486 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 10
10th Percentile £33.20 £43.90 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £51.25 £26.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £45.56
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% +15.23% -5.08%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - £54.45
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
% change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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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 1 (1.41%) Apache
1 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.41%) Confluence
1 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.41%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.41%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.13%) AWS
2 13 (18.31%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (16.90%) Azure
4 10 (14.08%) Amazon S3
4 10 (14.08%) Serverless
5 9 (12.68%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (12.68%) Power Platform
6 8 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (11.27%) OpenShift
7 7 (9.86%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (8.45%) OCI
9 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.82%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (2.82%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.82%) SaaS
11 2 (2.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.13%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.49%) Metadata
2 11 (15.49%) Oracle Database
3 9 (12.68%) Power BI
4 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
5 7 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (9.86%) MongoDB
6 5 (7.04%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (7.04%) Tableau
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.63%) Informix
7 4 (5.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.82%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.82%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.82%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.41%) MySQL
9 1 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Oracle APEX
2 7 (9.86%) Selenium
2 7 (9.86%) WebDriver
3 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.04%) GitLab
5 4 (5.63%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.63%) Git
6 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.23%) JIRA
6 3 (4.23%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.82%) ER Studio
7 2 (2.82%) ERwin
7 2 (2.82%) Subversion
8 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.41%) gulp
8 1 (1.41%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.41%) JUnit
8 1 (1.41%) Maven
8 1 (1.41%) Postman
8 1 (1.41%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (35.21%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (33.80%) Social Skills
3 23 (32.39%) Public Sector
4 18 (25.35%) Finance
5 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.04%) Retail
6 3 (4.23%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Publishing
7 1 (1.41%) Humanities
7 1 (1.41%) Social Science
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Developer
2 17 (23.94%) Senior
3 13 (18.31%) Data Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Oracle Developer
5 7 (9.86%) Analyst
6 5 (7.04%) Automation Tester
6 5 (7.04%) Database Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Tester
7 4 (5.63%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Design Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Designer
8 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Database Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Design Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Service Manager
8 3 (4.23%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.31%) AWS CDK
2 8 (11.27%) REST
3 5 (7.04%) CSS
3 5 (7.04%) HTML
4 4 (5.63%) Kafka
4 4 (5.63%) Spring
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (4.23%) React
5 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.23%) XML
6 2 (2.82%) .NET
6 2 (2.82%) OAuth
6 2 (2.82%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.82%) PostGIS
6 2 (2.82%) Spring MVC
6 2 (2.82%) Spring Security
6 2 (2.82%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (2.82%) Thymeleaf
7 1 (1.41%) Apache Camel
7 1 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.04%) Replication
3 4 (5.63%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Android
1 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
1 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Agile
1 19 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (22.54%) DevOps
3 14 (19.72%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (18.31%) Data Modelling
5 12 (16.90%) Analytics
5 12 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (16.90%) CI/CD
5 12 (16.90%) Migration
5 12 (16.90%) SQL Optimisation
6 11 (15.49%) Kanban
6 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.08%) Scrum
8 9 (12.68%) Computer Science
9 8 (11.27%) Data Integration
10 7 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.86%) Data Analysis
10 7 (9.86%) Data Transformation
10 7 (9.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.17%) PL/SQL
2 14 (19.72%) Python
3 9 (12.68%) Java
3 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
3 9 (12.68%) TypeScript
4 8 (11.27%) C#
5 4 (5.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.23%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.82%) C++
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) VBA
7 2 (2.82%) VBScript
8 1 (1.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.41%) PHP
8 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) R
8 1 (1.41%) Ruby
8 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.08%) Degree
2 9 (12.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.82%) ISEB
6 2 (2.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Grafana
2 7 (9.86%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Istio
3 1 (1.41%) Kibana
3 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (43.66%) Oracle
2 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.86%) Databricks
4 2 (2.82%) Commvault
4 2 (2.82%) Google
4 2 (2.82%) IBM
4 2 (2.82%) IDERA
4 2 (2.82%) Informatica
4 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.82%) Teradata
5 1 (1.41%) Adobe
5 1 (1.41%) Confluent
5 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.41%) Pega
5 1 (1.41%) Solace