SQL Contracts in Glasgow

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 11 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 110 98 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.14% 11.14% 10.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.84% 29.43% 35.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 66 68
10th Percentile £346 £394 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £525
90th Percentile £600 £638 £578
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £50.62 £42.85
25th Percentile - £54.96 £43.38
Median hourly rate - £64.38 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +43.06% -28.12%
75th Percentile - £67.66 £46.88
90th Percentile - £68.31 £47.55
Scotland median hourly rate £21.64 £66.56 £38.00
% change year-on-year -67.49% +75.16% -39.30%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 335 333 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.02% 37.84% 29.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 218 195
10th Percentile £347 £400 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.15% +13.18%
75th Percentile £561 £650 £544
90th Percentile £665 £750 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £490 £480
% change year-on-year -2.96% +1.98% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £51.88 £51.99 £42.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £43.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +31.17% -32.33%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £46.88
90th Percentile - £67.66 £47.55
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Glasgow

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Glasgow

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Glasgow

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (3.64%) SAS
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 40 (36.36%) AWS
2 11 (10.00%) Azure
3 9 (8.18%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.45%) npm
4 6 (5.45%) Serverless
5 5 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.73%) CloudFront
7 3 (2.73%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.91%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.91%) OCI
9 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (3.64%) iSCSI
1 4 (3.64%) SAN
2 1 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.82%) Relational Database
2 11 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.27%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.45%) DB2
5 6 (5.45%) Oracle Database
6 5 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.64%) Big Data
7 4 (3.64%) Power BI
8 3 (2.73%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.73%) Tableau
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.91%) DTS
10 1 (0.91%) Informix
10 1 (0.91%) MySQL
10 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (15.45%) JIRA
2 8 (7.27%) Git
2 8 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.73%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.73%) webpack
4 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.82%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.82%) GitLab
5 1 (0.91%) JUnit
5 1 (0.91%) Maven
5 1 (0.91%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.91%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (29.09%) Finance
2 15 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.91%) Banking
4 11 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.45%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.82%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (53.64%) Developer
2 22 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 9 (8.18%) Analyst
4 9 (8.18%) Full Stack Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (6.36%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 7 (6.36%) Senior
5 7 (6.36%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.36%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) DBA
6 6 (5.45%) Java Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Lead
6 6 (5.45%) SQL DBA
7 5 (4.55%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.00%) Spring
2 26 (23.64%) HTML
2 26 (23.64%) Spring Boot
3 24 (21.82%) REST
4 19 (17.27%) CSS
5 17 (15.45%) AngularJS
6 14 (12.73%) RESTful
7 12 (10.91%) React
8 11 (10.00%) JPA
9 5 (4.55%) Kafka
10 4 (3.64%) Flash
10 4 (3.64%) Node.js
10 4 (3.64%) POSIX
11 3 (2.73%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.73%) OAuth
12 2 (1.82%) AWS CDK
13 1 (0.91%) Hibernate
13 1 (0.91%) Spring Batch
13 1 (0.91%) Thymeleaf
13 1 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 9 (8.18%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.64%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.64%) NVMe
4 3 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.91%) Clustering
6 1 (0.91%) Replication
6 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.18%) Unix
2 6 (5.45%) Linux
2 6 (5.45%) Windows
3 5 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.64%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.36%) Agile
2 27 (24.55%) Software Engineering
3 26 (23.64%) Artificial Intelligence
3 26 (23.64%) Microservices
4 25 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 24 (21.82%) SDLC
6 21 (19.09%) Full Stack Development
7 15 (13.64%) Machine Learning
8 14 (12.73%) CRM
8 14 (12.73%) Unit Testing
9 13 (11.82%) Data Modelling
9 13 (11.82%) Decision-Making
9 13 (11.82%) Operational Stability
10 12 (10.91%) Code Quality
11 11 (10.00%) Conversational UI
12 9 (8.18%) DevOps
12 9 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (7.27%) High Availability
13 8 (7.27%) Problem Management
13 8 (7.27%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.18%) Java
2 23 (20.91%) Python
3 20 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 15 (13.64%) C#
4 15 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 15 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.64%) Perl
7 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (16.36%) Degree
2 4 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.91%) ISEB
4 1 (0.91%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.91%) MCSE
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (8.18%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) GPFS
2 4 (3.64%) NFS
3 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.64%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 3 (2.73%) Grafana
4 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Oracle
2 13 (11.82%) Avaloq
3 11 (10.00%) PayPal
4 6 (5.45%) Google
4 6 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.64%) AVEVA
5 4 (3.64%) Brocade
5 4 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.64%) EMC
5 4 (3.64%) IBM
5 4 (3.64%) NetApp
5 4 (3.64%) Sybase
5 4 (3.64%) Veritas
6 3 (2.73%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.82%) Greenplum
7 2 (1.82%) Splunk
8 1 (0.91%) Databricks