T-SQL Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Transact-SQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 114 122
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +28
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 3 5 21
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.19% 0.29% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 0.89% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £435 £339 £433
25th Percentile £525 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £388 £550
Median % change year-on-year +80.65% -29.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £725 £430 £588
90th Percentile - £435 £590
UK median daily rate £415 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -20.95% +10.53% -

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 586 564 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.30% 32.79% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 316 467
10th Percentile £351 £356 £388
25th Percentile £410 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% -8.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £599
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile £52.00 £17.99 £49.13
25th Percentile £53.75 - £54.65
Median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £59.52
Median % change year-on-year +212.53% -67.08% +13.99%
75th Percentile £72.50 £48.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £64.20 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in Scotland

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 7 December 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
Glasgow -3 3 £700 +66.67% 3
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks