T-SQL Contracts in Scotland

Transact-SQL
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 146 151
Rank change year-on-year +32 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 15 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.74% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.26% 2.12% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 24
10th Percentile £419 £391 £367
25th Percentile £503 £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £591 £456 £491
90th Percentile £596 £483 £523
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +9.47% -7.77% +14.44%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

T-SQL is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 663 991 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.11% 34.92% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 721 647
10th Percentile £363 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £579 £561 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.43 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £51.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +25.60% +8.05%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.75 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +13.64%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
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 T-SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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 +13 9 £575 +42.86% 8
South Lanarkshire - 5 £550 -
Edinburgh +28 1 - - 1
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (86.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Senior
2 9 (60.00%) DBA
2 9 (60.00%) SQL DBA
3 8 (53.33%) Senior DBA
3 8 (53.33%) Senior SQL DBA
4 6 (40.00%) Senior SQL Server DBA
4 6 (40.00%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (53.33%) High Availability
2 7 (46.67%) Problem Management
3 2 (13.33%) Capacity Management
3 2 (13.33%) Security Patching
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) RBAC
4 1 (6.67%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Management
4 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft