SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 16 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.18% 2.10% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.22% 8.61% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 10
10th Percentile £420 £453 £354
25th Percentile £437 £456 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +13.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £494 £519 £484
90th Percentile £506 £531 £788
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -11.92%

All Database & BI 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 121 151 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.49% 24.43% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 79 74
10th Percentile £317 £420 £363
25th Percentile £405 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +11.11% -6.05%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £518
90th Percentile £575 £600 £581
Scotland median daily rate £425 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -13.09% +8.67% -6.25%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) MS Access
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) DBA
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) SQL DBA
4 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) Architect
6 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Environment Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 2 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) WinForms
4 2 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
5 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
5 1 (6.25%) JSON
5 1 (6.25%) MSMQ
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (6.25%) WPF
5 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Clustering
4 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
5 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (25.00%) Data Management
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) AI
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
7 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (12.50%) Database Optimisation
7 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Workflow
8 1 (6.25%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
3 4 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Bicep
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
5 1 (6.25%) VBA
5 1 (6.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) RedGate
3 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe
4 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.25%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) New Relic
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) VMware