SQL Contract Job Trends in West Lothian

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Lothian requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing SQL 2 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in West Lothian 13.33% 3.45% 21.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% 25.00% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile - - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £69 £300 £498
Median % change year-on-year -77.00% -39.70% +3.65%
75th Percentile - - £569
90th Percentile - - £591
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
West Lothian

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 West Lothian.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 4 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 13.33% 13.79% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 15
10th Percentile - £133 £438
25th Percentile - £240 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £69 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year -84.23% -16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £578 £580
90th Percentile - - £590
Scotland median daily rate £496 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +8.06% -8.20% +5.26%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian.

SQL job vacancy trend in West Lothian

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in West Lothian

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Lothian citing SQL

SQL
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 13 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
Livingston +1 2 £69 -77.00% 2
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) FileNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Genesys Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Genesys
1 2 (100.00%) KANA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle