T-SQL Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Transact-SQL
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 65 73
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +21
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.29% 0.48% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.90% 1.52% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £465 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +34.33%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

T-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 221 197 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.31% 31.22% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 126 146
10th Percentile £371 £400 £408
25th Percentile £413 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £482
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% +0.52%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £575
90th Percentile £625 £546 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £469 £482
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.65% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile - - £34.40
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £38.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £23.77 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +169.28% -60.71% +15.24%
75th Percentile £69.00 £40.72 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.00 £60.98
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.77 £60.00
% change year-on-year +131.41% -60.39% -0.91%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing T-SQL

T-SQL
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Database Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Database Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Entry
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle