SQL Contract Job Trends in Aberdeen

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Aberdeen

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Aberdeen requiring SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 9 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Aberdeen 3.45% 3.23% 2.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 11.11% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £438 £488
% change year-on-year +5.71% -10.26% +2.63%

All Programming Languages
Aberdeen

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Aberdeen.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen 6.90% 29.03% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £465 -
25th Percentile £413 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £438 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £496 £452 £483
% change year-on-year +9.80% -6.37% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £53.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year +12.15% -9.37% +19.71%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Aberdeen

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Aberdeen

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Aberdeen

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing SQL

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Developer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Product Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft