SQL Contracts in West Lothian

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > West Lothian

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Lothian with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 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 5 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing SQL 15 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Lothian 30.00% - 24.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.69% - 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £438 - £380
25th Percentile £443 - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 - £478
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.52%
75th Percentile £550 - £500
90th Percentile £575 - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%

All Programming Languages
West Lothian

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 West Lothian with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 11 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 52.00% 21.57% 58.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 15
10th Percentile £440 £485 £322
25th Percentile £499 £506 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £455
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +33.24% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £500
90th Percentile £590 £665 -
Scotland median daily rate £483 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +335.90% -
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £47.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +25.60% +8.05%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Lothian.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in West Lothian

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Lothian

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in West Lothian.

Daily rate trend for SQL in West Lothian

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Lothian

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in West Lothian.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in West Lothian

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 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
Livingston - 15 £498 -
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Lothian 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 11 (73.33%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) FileNet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) 5G
2 1 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Cucumber
1 12 (80.00%) JUnit
2 11 (73.33%) Git
2 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (73.33%) JIRA
2 11 (73.33%) Postman
3 4 (26.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
1 11 (73.33%) Java Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Kafka
1 12 (80.00%) REST
2 11 (73.33%) Apache Camel
2 11 (73.33%) Spring Boot
3 9 (60.00%) J2EE
3 9 (60.00%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.67%) Java EE
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Coaching
2 6 (40.00%) Component Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (40.00%) TDD
3 4 (26.67%) CRM
4 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Value Proposition
6 1 (6.67%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 1 (6.67%) Data Design
6 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
6 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (6.67%) OO
6 1 (6.67%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Genesys
2 1 (6.67%) KANA