SQL Contracts in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL 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 10 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 79 71 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.64% 8.71% 11.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.30% 35.68% 31.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 55 116
10th Percentile £404 £363 £388
25th Percentile £416 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +6.53% -
75th Percentile £528 £563 £538
90th Percentile £550 £575 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +2.63%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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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 6 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.53%) Apache
2 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.53%) CMS
2 2 (2.53%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.27%) IIS
3 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.27%) nginx
3 1 (1.27%) SAS
3 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.44%) AWS
2 22 (27.85%) Azure
3 16 (20.25%) Amazon S3
4 11 (13.92%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (13.92%) Power Platform
4 11 (13.92%) Serverless
4 11 (13.92%) Snowflake
5 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (6.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (6.33%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.06%) GCP
8 4 (5.06%) IaaS
8 4 (5.06%) OCI
8 4 (5.06%) PaaS
8 4 (5.06%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (3.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) DHCP
1 1 (1.27%) DNS
1 1 (1.27%) Firewall
1 1 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.52%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (17.72%) Oracle Database
2 14 (17.72%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (13.92%) SQL Server
4 9 (11.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (11.39%) Tableau
5 8 (10.13%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.86%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (8.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (7.59%) RDBMS
8 5 (6.33%) Power BI
9 4 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (5.06%) Hadoop
9 4 (5.06%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (3.80%) Data Lake
10 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (2.53%) Apache Hive
11 2 (2.53%) MariaDB
11 2 (2.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Git
1 12 (15.19%) GitLab
2 6 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.33%) JIRA
3 5 (6.33%) Postman
3 5 (6.33%) Selenium
4 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.80%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.80%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (3.80%) Subversion
4 3 (3.80%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.80%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.27%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.27%) JUnit
5 1 (1.27%) MSTest
5 1 (1.27%) NUnit
5 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.27%) Toad
5 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (27.85%) Finance
2 20 (25.32%) Public Sector
3 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
4 17 (21.52%) Banking
5 16 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Retail
6 4 (5.06%) Retail Banking
6 4 (5.06%) Tech for Good
7 3 (3.80%) Back Office
8 2 (2.53%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Front Office
9 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Data Engineer
2 15 (18.99%) Analyst
3 11 (13.92%) Developer
4 7 (8.86%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Senior
7 4 (5.06%) Lead
7 4 (5.06%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (5.06%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Consultant
8 3 (3.80%) DBA
9 2 (2.53%) .NET Developer
9 2 (2.53%) Administrator
9 2 (2.53%) Applications Support
9 2 (2.53%) Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (2.53%) Quality Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) SQL DBA
9 2 (2.53%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.53%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.53%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) .NET
1 9 (11.39%) REST
2 6 (7.59%) AWS CDK
2 6 (7.59%) PySpark
3 5 (6.33%) CSS
3 5 (6.33%) Middleware
4 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.80%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.80%) HTML
5 3 (3.80%) JSON
5 3 (3.80%) Playwright
5 3 (3.80%) PostGIS
5 3 (3.80%) YAML
6 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.53%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.53%) Next.js
6 2 (2.53%) Pandas
6 2 (2.53%) React
6 2 (2.53%) SOAP
6 2 (2.53%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.33%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.06%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.80%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.53%) Replication
6 1 (1.27%) Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.27%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.27%) NHS
6 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) AIX
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.27%) Solaris
4 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.27%) Unix
4 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.85%) Agile
2 20 (25.32%) CI/CD
3 19 (24.05%) Data Engineering
4 18 (22.78%) DevOps
4 18 (22.78%) ETL
4 18 (22.78%) Migration
5 17 (21.52%) Analytics
6 15 (18.99%) Data Analysis
7 13 (16.46%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (16.46%) Data Transformation
8 12 (15.19%) Data Migration
8 12 (15.19%) Decision-Making
9 11 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
9 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.66%) Kanban
10 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (11.39%) Data Integration
11 9 (11.39%) Data Protection
11 9 (11.39%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) Python
2 15 (18.99%) PL/SQL
3 10 (12.66%) Java
4 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.33%) C#
6 3 (3.80%) C++
6 3 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.80%) VBA
6 3 (3.80%) VBScript
7 2 (2.53%) Bash
7 2 (2.53%) Bicep
7 2 (2.53%) Perl
8 1 (1.27%) R
8 1 (1.27%) VB
8 1 (1.27%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Degree
2 8 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.80%) ISEB
3 3 (3.80%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (11.39%) QA
3 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (10.13%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Grafana
2 4 (5.06%) Ansible
3 3 (3.80%) Terraform
4 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.27%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 26 (32.91%) Oracle
2 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) Informatica
4 4 (5.06%) Teradata
4 4 (5.06%) VMware
5 3 (3.80%) Databricks
6 2 (2.53%) IBM
6 2 (2.53%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.27%) Aruba
7 1 (1.27%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco
7 1 (1.27%) Citrix
7 1 (1.27%) Confluent
7 1 (1.27%) Dell
7 1 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (1.27%) HP
7 1 (1.27%) Pega
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.27%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) TSYS