SQL Contracts in Perthshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Perthshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Perthshire 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 6 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Perthshire 11.76% 13.64% 9.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% 60.00% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - £517
25th Percentile - £463 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +5.77%
75th Percentile - £488 £568
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate - £21.64 £66.56
% change year-on-year - -67.49% +66.43%

All Programming Languages
Perthshire

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 Perthshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire 11.76% 22.73% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £507
25th Percentile - £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% +11.28%
75th Percentile - £488 £567
90th Percentile - £495 £568
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Perthshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Perthshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Perthshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Perthshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Perthshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Design
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle