T-SQL Contracts in Scotland

Transact-SQL
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for T-SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited T-SQL over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 144 141
Rank change year-on-year +29 -3 0
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 16 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.72% 0.73% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.39% 2.10% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 24
10th Percentile £419 £391 £367
25th Percentile £503 £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £591 £456 £491
90th Percentile £596 £483 £523
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +13.89%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

T-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 670 999 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.94% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 727 641
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £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 14 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.79 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £52.50 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +27.21% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.27 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.25%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-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 T-SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +6 10 £575 +42.86% 8
South Lanarkshire - 5 £550 -
Edinburgh +24 1 - - 1
T-SQL
UK

T-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 7 (43.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (43.75%) MongoDB
2 7 (43.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
General
1 12 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Senior
2 10 (62.50%) DBA
2 10 (62.50%) SQL DBA
3 9 (56.25%) Senior DBA
3 9 (56.25%) Senior SQL DBA
4 7 (43.75%) Senior SQL Server DBA
4 7 (43.75%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (56.25%) High Availability
2 8 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
4 1 (6.25%) Agile
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) RBAC
4 1 (6.25%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Test Strategy
4 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Atlassian
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft