SQL Server Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 69 62
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 -11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 52 109 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.39% 3.87% 3.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.37% 18.17% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 84 84
10th Percentile £363 £378 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +1.33% +13.98%
75th Percentile £600 £568 £525
90th Percentile £743 £644 £575
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.75
25th Percentile - - £23.13
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - +143.48% -
75th Percentile - - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £37.75
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £45.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year -10.83% -3.58% +66.68%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 389 600 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.91% 21.31% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 477 414
10th Percentile £325 £400 £360
25th Percentile £405 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.57% +14.41%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £563
90th Percentile £658 £680 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +57.64%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +1 25 £563 +27.99% 14
Edinburgh +11 16 £375 -21.05% 17
South Lanarkshire - 9 £575 -
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 4 (7.69%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.77%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.92%) GCP
4 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.92%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) LAN
1 4 (7.69%) WAN
2 3 (5.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 6 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.85%) DB2
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.92%) Big Data
5 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.92%) HBase
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.92%) Power Query
5 1 (1.92%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) JIRA
2 5 (9.62%) Selenium
2 5 (9.62%) WebDriver
3 2 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (32.69%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) DBA
1 22 (42.31%) SQL DBA
2 17 (32.69%) Senior
3 11 (21.15%) Senior DBA
3 11 (21.15%) Senior SQL DBA
3 11 (21.15%) SQL Server DBA
4 9 (17.31%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 5 (9.62%) Administrator
5 5 (9.62%) Automation Tester
5 5 (9.62%) Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Lead
5 5 (9.62%) Tester
6 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.77%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.85%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) .NET
2 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (3.85%) React
4 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.92%) EJB
4 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.92%) MassTransit
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.92%) Web Services
4 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.92%) Clustering
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Windows
2 7 (13.46%) Linux
3 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (19.23%) High Availability
3 9 (17.31%) Agile
3 9 (17.31%) DevOps
4 8 (15.38%) Problem Management
5 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
6 5 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (9.62%) Test Scripting
7 4 (7.69%) Load Balancing
7 4 (7.69%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
8 3 (5.77%) Capacity Management
8 3 (5.77%) Database Tuning
8 3 (5.77%) Design Patterns
8 3 (5.77%) Mentoring
8 3 (5.77%) Microservices
8 3 (5.77%) Organisational Awareness
8 3 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (3.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.85%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) SQL
2 19 (36.54%) PowerShell
3 13 (25.00%) C#
3 13 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 6 (11.54%) Java
5 5 (9.62%) Python
6 3 (5.77%) Bash
7 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.92%) Groovy
8 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) CCNA
3 4 (7.69%) CCNP
3 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) MCSE
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (1.92%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Atlassian
3 5 (9.62%) F5
4 4 (7.69%) AVEVA
4 4 (7.69%) Oracle
4 4 (7.69%) VMware
5 2 (3.85%) Splunk
6 1 (1.92%) Databricks
6 1 (1.92%) Qualys
6 1 (1.92%) Sybase