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

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 54 70
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 15 52 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.85% 4.02% 2.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.42% 16.88% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 42 42
10th Percentile £325 £366 £325
25th Percentile £344 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £649 £594 £525
90th Percentile £830 £650 £573
Scotland median daily rate £550 £475 £461
% change year-on-year +15.79% +2.98% +15.31%
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 144 308 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.78% 23.84% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 256 211
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £432 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -2.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £663 £619 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £494 £480
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.92% +12.94%
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 £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.91% +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 23 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 (26.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) LAN
1 4 (26.67%) WAN
2 3 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.67%) Power Query
2 1 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Selenium
1 4 (26.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Automation Tester
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Lead
1 4 (26.67%) Lead Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Tester
2 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (13.33%) React
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) MassTransit
3 1 (6.67%) MDX
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
2 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (26.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Organisational Awareness
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (6.67%) ERP
5 1 (6.67%) MVC
5 1 (6.67%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C#
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCNA
1 4 (26.67%) CCNP
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) F5
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (6.67%) MicroStrategy