SQL Contracts in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 66 152 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.07% 12.29% 11.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.26% 34.39% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 108 155
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.44% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £569 £518 £548
90th Percentile £575 £593 £640
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.90
25th Percentile - - £26.50
Median hourly rate - - £29.50
75th Percentile - - £34.00
90th Percentile - - £35.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.64 £66.56 £38.00
% change year-on-year -67.49% +75.16% -39.30%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 182 442 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.25% 35.73% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 342 404
10th Percentile £363 £406 £400
25th Percentile £415 £437 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £486
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -1.29% +14.41%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £550
90th Percentile £625 £590 £650
Scotland median daily rate £475 £490 £480
% change year-on-year -2.96% +1.98% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £33.20 £41.45 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £45.13 £21.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% +59.09% -31.25%
75th Percentile £60.75 £60.63 £47.16
90th Percentile - £64.75 £54.89
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (1.52%) Apache
1 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.52%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.52%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.70%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (15.15%) Azure
4 9 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 8 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 8 (12.12%) Serverless
6 7 (10.61%) AWS CodePipeline
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (6.06%) GCP
9 4 (6.06%) OCI
10 2 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (3.03%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (3.03%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (3.03%) Google Sheets
10 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (16.67%) Metadata
2 11 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 9 (13.64%) Power BI
4 7 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
5 6 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 6 (9.09%) Tableau
6 4 (6.06%) Informix
6 4 (6.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.03%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.03%) InfluxDB
8 2 (3.03%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.52%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 16 (24.24%) Oracle APEX
2 7 (10.61%) Selenium
2 7 (10.61%) WebDriver
3 6 (9.09%) GitLab
4 3 (4.55%) Git
4 3 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.03%) ER Studio
5 2 (3.03%) ERwin
5 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.03%) JIRA
5 2 (3.03%) Subversion
6 1 (1.52%) Liquibase
General
1 23 (34.85%) Analytical Skills
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (30.30%) Public Sector
3 16 (24.24%) Finance
4 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Publishing
6 3 (4.55%) Retail
7 2 (3.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Humanities
8 1 (1.52%) Social Science
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Senior
2 13 (19.70%) Developer
3 12 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) Automation Tester
5 5 (7.58%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) Database Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Oracle Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Tester
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Design Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Designer
7 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Database Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Design Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 5 (7.58%) REST
3 3 (4.55%) CSS
3 3 (4.55%) HTML
3 3 (4.55%) Kafka
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.55%) XML
4 2 (3.03%) .NET
4 2 (3.03%) PostGIS
4 2 (3.03%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.52%) Java EE
5 1 (1.52%) JSON
5 1 (1.52%) PySpark
5 1 (1.52%) React
5 1 (1.52%) RESTful
5 1 (1.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.58%) Replication
3 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Social Media
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Android
1 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.52%) Linux
1 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.27%) Agile
2 17 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (21.21%) DevOps
4 12 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (18.18%) SQL Optimisation
5 11 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 11 (16.67%) Kanban
5 11 (16.67%) Migration
5 11 (16.67%) Scrum
6 10 (15.15%) Analytics
6 10 (15.15%) Computer Science
7 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 9 (13.64%) Visualisation
8 8 (12.12%) Data Analysis
8 8 (12.12%) Data Integration
8 8 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (10.61%) Data Transformation
9 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) PL/SQL
2 14 (21.21%) Python
3 7 (10.61%) C#
4 6 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.58%) Java
6 3 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.03%) C++
7 2 (3.03%) VBA
7 2 (3.03%) VBScript
8 1 (1.52%) Go
8 1 (1.52%) Perl
8 1 (1.52%) R
8 1 (1.52%) Rust
8 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Degree
2 10 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.55%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.03%) ISEB
6 2 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Grafana
2 6 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) Istio
3 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (40.91%) Oracle
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.09%) Databricks
4 4 (6.06%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) Brandwatch
5 2 (3.03%) Commvault
5 2 (3.03%) Facebook
5 2 (3.03%) Hootsuite
5 2 (3.03%) IBM
5 2 (3.03%) IDERA
5 2 (3.03%) Informatica
5 2 (3.03%) Instagram
5 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.03%) Teradata
5 2 (3.03%) Twitter
5 2 (3.03%) YouTube
6 1 (1.52%) Adobe
6 1 (1.52%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.52%) Pega
6 1 (1.52%) Solace