T-SQL Contracts in Scotland

Transact-SQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring T-SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited T-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 112 113 142
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 -1
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 4 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.72% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 2.40% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 15
10th Percentile - £419 £391
25th Percentile - £503 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £563 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +32.35% -10.53%
75th Percentile - £591 £456
90th Percentile - £596 £483
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -7.32%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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
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 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +7 3 - - 2
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 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EMR
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Teradata
2 2 (50.00%) Informatica
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Sage
3 1 (25.00%) TSYS