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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 75 67 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.00% 8.15% 12.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.27% 36.02% 34.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 50 110
10th Percentile £405 £363 £398
25th Percentile £416 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +6.44% -
75th Percentile £538 £569 £515
90th Percentile £550 £575 £591
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

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 196 186 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 31.36% 22.63% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 133 345
10th Percentile £400 £365 £406
25th Percentile £425 £416 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £480
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £535
90th Percentile £550 £625 £590
Scotland median daily rate £472 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -0.58% -3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile - £33.20 £41.45
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £45.13
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +59.09%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £63.00 - £64.75
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -60.22% -3.83% +34.36%

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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 17 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 5 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) IIS
3 1 (1.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.33%) SAS
3 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.67%) AWS
2 23 (30.67%) Azure
3 16 (21.33%) Amazon S3
4 11 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (14.67%) Serverless
5 10 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 9 (12.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (6.67%) GCP
8 5 (6.67%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.33%) IaaS
9 4 (5.33%) OCI
9 4 (5.33%) PaaS
9 4 (5.33%) PowerApps
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.67%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (18.67%) Oracle Database
3 13 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 9 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (10.67%) Relational Database
6 8 (10.67%) Tableau
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (8.00%) RDBMS
9 4 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (5.33%) Hadoop
9 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
9 4 (5.33%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (4.00%) MariaDB
10 3 (4.00%) MySQL
10 3 (4.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (4.00%) Power BI
10 3 (4.00%) Power Query
10 3 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) GitLab
2 11 (14.67%) Git
3 5 (6.67%) JIRA
3 5 (6.67%) Postman
3 5 (6.67%) Selenium
4 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.00%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (4.00%) Subversion
5 3 (4.00%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.00%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.33%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.33%) JUnit
6 1 (1.33%) MSTest
6 1 (1.33%) NUnit
6 1 (1.33%) Ranorex
6 1 (1.33%) Toad
6 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (28.00%) Finance
1 21 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (20.00%) Banking
5 4 (5.33%) Tech for Good
6 3 (4.00%) Back Office
6 3 (4.00%) Retail
6 3 (4.00%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Data Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Analyst
3 9 (12.00%) Developer
4 7 (9.33%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Senior
6 4 (5.33%) Oracle Developer
6 4 (5.33%) QA Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) DBA
7 3 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Lead
7 3 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (2.67%) Administrator
8 2 (2.67%) Applications Support
8 2 (2.67%) Consultant
8 2 (2.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Support Analyst
8 2 (2.67%) Tableau Developer
8 2 (2.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) .NET
2 9 (12.00%) REST
3 6 (8.00%) AWS CDK
3 6 (8.00%) PySpark
4 5 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.33%) JSON
5 4 (5.33%) YAML
6 3 (4.00%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.00%) CSS
6 3 (4.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (4.00%) HTML
6 3 (4.00%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (4.00%) Middleware
6 3 (4.00%) PostGIS
6 3 (4.00%) React
7 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.67%) Blazor
7 2 (2.67%) Kafka
7 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.33%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.33%) Clustering
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.33%) NHS
5 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) SCADA
5 1 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) AIX
3 2 (2.67%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Solaris
4 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Agile
2 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
3 20 (26.67%) DevOps
4 19 (25.33%) Migration
5 18 (24.00%) Data Engineering
6 17 (22.67%) ETL
7 16 (21.33%) Analytics
8 14 (18.67%) Data Analysis
9 12 (16.00%) Data Migration
9 12 (16.00%) Data Modelling
9 12 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (16.00%) Data Transformation
10 11 (14.67%) Kanban
10 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
11 10 (13.33%) Decision-Making
11 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (12.00%) Data Integration
12 9 (12.00%) Data Protection
12 9 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.00%) Python
2 15 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 11 (14.67%) Java
4 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.00%) C#
6 4 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.00%) Bash
7 3 (4.00%) Bicep
7 3 (4.00%) C++
7 3 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.00%) VBA
7 3 (4.00%) VBScript
8 2 (2.67%) Perl
9 1 (1.33%) R
9 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.33%) VB
9 1 (1.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Degree
2 8 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.00%) ISEB
3 3 (4.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (12.00%) QA
3 7 (9.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Grafana
2 4 (5.33%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.33%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) Oracle
2 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.67%) Informatica
4 4 (5.33%) Teradata
5 3 (4.00%) VMware
6 2 (2.67%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) IBM
6 2 (2.67%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.33%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.33%) Confluent
7 1 (1.33%) Databricks
7 1 (1.33%) Dell
7 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.33%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.33%) Pega
7 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.33%) TSYS