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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 60 69
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 16 52 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.96% 3.92% 3.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.96% 16.51% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 42 44
10th Percentile £325 £366 £325
25th Percentile £353 £408 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £631 £594 £525
90th Percentile £827 £650 £554
Scotland median daily rate £575 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +23.79% -2.21% +18.75%
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 146 315 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.87% 23.76% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 260 215
10th Percentile £400 £400 £369
25th Percentile £431 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £567
90th Percentile £663 £614 £625
Scotland median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
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 £21.64 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -38.17% +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 16 April 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
2 1 (6.25%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 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 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.25%) Power Query
2 1 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Selenium
1 4 (25.00%) 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 4 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Automation Tester
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Lead
1 4 (25.00%) Lead Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
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%) React
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) MassTransit
3 1 (6.25%) MDX
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.25%) Play Framework
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
1 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Awareness
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (12.50%) ETL
4 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) C
6 1 (6.25%) Java
6 1 (6.25%) Julia
6 1 (6.25%) Scala
6 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
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
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) F5
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) MicroStrategy