SQL Contracts in Scotland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 225 289 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.19% 10.13% 10.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.58% 29.10% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 201 257
10th Percentile £363 £400 £356
25th Percentile £414 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £600 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £52.07 £27.50
25th Percentile - £58.57 £31.50
Median hourly rate £21.64 £66.56 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.49% +66.43% -39.86%
75th Percentile - £69.06 £43.25
90th Percentile - £69.63 £45.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +40.85% +31.48%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Glasgow +3 111 £453 -7.55% 41
Edinburgh -3 71 £506 +6.53% 53
West Lothian +13 15 £498 +2.58% 2
South Lanarkshire +6 8 £575 +27.78% 1
Perthshire +7 3 £475 -13.64% 1
Aberdeen 0 2 £381 - 11
Fife - 1 - - 4
Aberdeenshire - 1 £525 - 7
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (5.33%) Confluence
2 8 (3.56%) SAS
3 4 (1.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) FileNet
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.89%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.44%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.22%) AWS
2 25 (11.11%) Azure
3 21 (9.33%) OpenShift
4 19 (8.44%) Serverless
5 18 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 18 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (6.22%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.89%) OCI
9 9 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 9 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.67%) npm
12 6 (2.67%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 4 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (1.33%) AWS CodeCommit
15 3 (1.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (2.67%) iSCSI
2 4 (1.78%) SAN
3 3 (1.33%) 5G
4 2 (0.89%) Broadband
5 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.22%) SQL Server
2 27 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (10.67%) Oracle Database
4 15 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (6.22%) Power BI
6 13 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.89%) Metadata
7 11 (4.89%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (4.44%) Tableau
9 9 (4.00%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.11%) DB2
12 6 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (2.67%) Informix
12 6 (2.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (2.22%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
15 3 (1.33%) Big Data
15 3 (1.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 28 (12.44%) JIRA
2 27 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 24 (10.67%) Git
4 21 (9.33%) Oracle APEX
5 15 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 13 (5.78%) JUnit
7 12 (5.33%) Postman
8 9 (4.00%) GitLab
9 7 (3.11%) Cypress.io
9 7 (3.11%) Selenium
9 7 (3.11%) WebDriver
10 5 (2.22%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.33%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.33%) webpack
12 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.89%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.89%) Maven
12 2 (0.89%) Subversion
General
1 61 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.00%) Finance
3 39 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 36 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.67%) Banking
6 12 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.22%) Retail
7 5 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.33%) Publishing
9 2 (0.89%) Law
9 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Humanities
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.44%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 85 (37.78%) Developer
2 39 (17.33%) Senior
3 33 (14.67%) Java Developer
4 18 (8.00%) Analyst
5 16 (7.11%) Data Engineer
6 15 (6.67%) DBA
6 15 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 15 (6.67%) SQL DBA
7 13 (5.78%) Data Analyst
7 13 (5.78%) Software Developer
8 12 (5.33%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (5.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (4.44%) Full Stack Engineer
10 9 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
11 8 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.11%) Consultant
12 7 (3.11%) Database Engineer
12 7 (3.11%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.67%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.89%) Spring
2 46 (20.44%) REST
3 41 (18.22%) Spring Boot
4 34 (15.11%) HTML
5 26 (11.56%) CSS
6 21 (9.33%) Kafka
7 20 (8.89%) AWS CDK
8 16 (7.11%) AngularJS
9 15 (6.67%) React
10 14 (6.22%) RESTful
11 12 (5.33%) Apache Camel
12 11 (4.89%) JPA
13 10 (4.44%) J2EE
14 6 (2.67%) Flash
14 6 (2.67%) OAuth
14 6 (2.67%) POSIX
15 5 (2.22%) Node.js
15 5 (2.22%) Spring MVC
15 5 (2.22%) Spring Web Flow
15 5 (2.22%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.78%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.33%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.56%) Replication
4 7 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.67%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.78%) NVMe
8 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.33%) Tandem
9 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.44%) BYOD
10 1 (0.44%) Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.44%) Linux
2 16 (7.11%) Unix
3 13 (5.78%) Windows
4 10 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.78%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.78%) VMS
7 1 (0.44%) Android
7 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (36.00%) Agile
2 41 (18.22%) CI/CD
3 35 (15.56%) DevOps
4 33 (14.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 32 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (13.78%) Microservices
7 28 (12.44%) Software Engineering
8 26 (11.56%) Full Stack Development
9 24 (10.67%) Data Modelling
10 21 (9.33%) Analytics
10 21 (9.33%) CRM
10 21 (9.33%) Scrum
10 21 (9.33%) SDLC
11 20 (8.89%) Unit Testing
12 19 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (8.00%) Data Protection
13 18 (8.00%) Migration
14 17 (7.56%) Machine Learning
14 17 (7.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (30.67%) Java
2 45 (20.00%) Python
3 40 (17.78%) PL/SQL
4 31 (13.78%) JavaScript
5 29 (12.89%) TypeScript
6 24 (10.67%) C#
7 10 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.00%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.67%) Perl
10 5 (2.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.33%) PHP
12 2 (0.89%) C++
12 2 (0.89%) Go
12 2 (0.89%) VBA
12 2 (0.89%) VBScript
13 1 (0.44%) C
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) R
13 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (13.78%) Degree
2 16 (7.11%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.78%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.33%) ISEB
6 3 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.44%) MCSE
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.33%) QA
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (12.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.67%) NFS
3 4 (1.78%) GPFS
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (8.00%) Grafana
2 9 (4.00%) Ansible
3 8 (3.56%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.67%) Kibana
5 4 (1.78%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.44%) Istio
7 1 (0.44%) logstash
7 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (24.89%) Oracle
2 19 (8.44%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.78%) Avaloq
4 11 (4.89%) PayPal
5 8 (3.56%) Databricks
6 6 (2.67%) Google
6 6 (2.67%) IBM
7 4 (1.78%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.78%) AVEVA
7 4 (1.78%) Brocade
7 4 (1.78%) Commvault
7 4 (1.78%) EMC
7 4 (1.78%) NetApp
7 4 (1.78%) Sybase
7 4 (1.78%) Veritas
8 3 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.89%) Greenplum
9 2 (0.89%) Informatica
9 2 (0.89%) Splunk
9 2 (0.89%) Teradata