SQL Server Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 17 16 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.72% 1.96% 3.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.81% 10.96% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 42
10th Percentile £374 £325 £401
25th Percentile £456 £353 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% -
75th Percentile £613 £574 £594
90th Percentile £638 £827 £650
Scotland median daily rate £498 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -5.14% +10.53% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.93 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +143.48%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

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 1 May 2025.

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 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) OCI
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle Database
1 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) OLAP
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) PowerCenter
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.88%) GIS
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Back Office
4 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) DBA
1 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 2 (11.76%) SQL DBA
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Data Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Database Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.76%) CSS
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
1 2 (11.76%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) Express.js
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.88%) AIX
5 1 (5.88%) Solaris
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 4 (23.53%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
3 3 (17.65%) Database Security
3 3 (17.65%) ETL
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (11.76%) Database Tuning
4 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.88%) Terminal Services
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Flashback
1 1 (5.88%) SCCM
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco
4 3 (17.65%) Teradata
5 2 (11.76%) Dell
5 2 (11.76%) Informatica
6 1 (5.88%) Aruba
6 1 (5.88%) Citrix
6 1 (5.88%) Commvault
6 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
6 1 (5.88%) Google
6 1 (5.88%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.88%) SonicWALL
6 1 (5.88%) TSYS
6 1 (5.88%) VMware