SQL Contracts in Scotland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 216 285 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.96% 10.40% 10.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.29% 30.22% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 195 254
10th Percentile £362 £400 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £543 £550 £536
90th Percentile £588 £619 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.38% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £52.07 £27.50
25th Percentile - £58.57 £31.50
Median hourly rate £21.64 £66.56 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.49% +66.43% -36.12%
75th Percentile - £69.06 £43.25
90th Percentile - £69.63 £45.75
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +42.86% +29.63%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 630 943 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 29.06% 34.42% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 681 652
10th Percentile £363 £408 £363
25th Percentile £413 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £673 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.43 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £51.25 £35.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +29.03% +1.67%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.89
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.75 £55.93
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Scotland

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 SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 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
Glasgow +4 106 £435 -9.61% 34
Edinburgh -4 67 £500 +5.26% 41
West Lothian - 14 £475 - 1
South Lanarkshire +7 6 £575 +27.78%
Perthshire +7 5 £475 -13.64% 1
Aberdeen 0 2 £381 - 10
Fife - 1 - - 4
Aberdeenshire - 1 £525 - 7
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (5.56%) Confluence
2 5 (2.31%) Apache
3 4 (1.85%) SAS
4 3 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Chatbot
1 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.31%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 57 (26.39%) AWS
2 29 (13.43%) Azure
3 18 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 17 (7.87%) Serverless
5 16 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 16 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (6.48%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
9 9 (4.17%) OCI
10 8 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.78%) npm
12 5 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.31%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (1.39%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (1.39%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (1.85%) iSCSI
1 4 (1.85%) SAN
2 3 (1.39%) 5G
3 2 (0.93%) Broadband
4 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 24 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (6.48%) Power BI
6 12 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (5.09%) Metadata
8 10 (4.63%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (4.63%) Tableau
9 9 (4.17%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.24%) DB2
10 7 (3.24%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.78%) Informix
11 6 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.85%) Big Data
13 4 (1.85%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.39%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 30 (13.89%) JIRA
2 28 (12.96%) Git
3 24 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 20 (9.26%) Oracle APEX
5 15 (6.94%) Cucumber
6 14 (6.48%) JUnit
7 12 (5.56%) Postman
8 8 (3.70%) GitLab
8 8 (3.70%) Selenium
9 7 (3.24%) WebDriver
10 5 (2.31%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.85%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.39%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (1.39%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.39%) webpack
13 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.93%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.93%) ERwin
General
1 58 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.30%) Finance
3 35 (16.20%) Public Sector
4 34 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.94%) Banking
6 12 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.85%) Retail
10 3 (1.39%) Publishing
11 2 (0.93%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.46%) Humanities
12 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 83 (38.43%) Developer
2 37 (17.13%) Senior
3 33 (15.28%) Java Developer
4 19 (8.80%) Analyst
5 15 (6.94%) Data Engineer
5 15 (6.94%) Senior Developer
6 12 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 11 (5.09%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.09%) DBA
7 11 (5.09%) SQL DBA
8 10 (4.63%) Full Stack Engineer
9 9 (4.17%) Oracle Developer
10 8 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.24%) Consultant
11 7 (3.24%) Database Engineer
11 7 (3.24%) Java Engineer
12 6 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (2.78%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 6 (2.78%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.22%) REST
2 45 (20.83%) Spring
3 39 (18.06%) Spring Boot
4 31 (14.35%) HTML
5 23 (10.65%) CSS
6 21 (9.72%) Kafka
7 17 (7.87%) AngularJS
7 17 (7.87%) AWS CDK
8 15 (6.94%) RESTful
9 12 (5.56%) Apache Camel
9 12 (5.56%) React
10 11 (5.09%) JPA
11 10 (4.63%) J2EE
12 8 (3.70%) .NET
13 5 (2.31%) Node.js
14 4 (1.85%) Flash
14 4 (1.85%) Playwright
14 4 (1.85%) POSIX
14 4 (1.85%) SOAP
14 4 (1.85%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.48%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 9 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.70%) Replication
5 6 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 6 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.85%) NVMe
8 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.39%) Tandem
9 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.46%) BYOD
10 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.87%) Unix
2 15 (6.94%) Windows
3 14 (6.48%) Linux
4 8 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.85%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.85%) VMS
7 1 (0.46%) Android
7 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.81%) Agile
2 36 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 32 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
4 31 (14.35%) DevOps
5 30 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (13.43%) Software Engineering
7 28 (12.96%) Microservices
8 25 (11.57%) SDLC
9 23 (10.65%) Data Modelling
9 23 (10.65%) Full Stack Development
10 22 (10.19%) Scrum
11 21 (9.72%) CRM
12 18 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (7.87%) Analytics
13 17 (7.87%) Machine Learning
13 17 (7.87%) Test Automation
13 17 (7.87%) Unit Testing
14 16 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (7.41%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 63 (29.17%) Java
2 40 (18.52%) PL/SQL
3 38 (17.59%) Python
4 28 (12.96%) C#
5 26 (12.04%) JavaScript
6 25 (11.57%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.78%) Perl
10 5 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.85%) VB
11 4 (1.85%) VB6
12 2 (0.93%) C++
12 2 (0.93%) Go
12 2 (0.93%) PHP
12 2 (0.93%) Rust
12 2 (0.93%) VBA
12 2 (0.93%) VBScript
13 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (13.43%) Degree
2 16 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.39%) ISEB
6 3 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.46%) MCSE
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.24%) QA
2 6 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (11.57%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) GPFS
2 4 (1.85%) NFS
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (6.94%) Grafana
2 9 (4.17%) Ansible
3 8 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.31%) Kibana
5 4 (1.85%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.46%) Istio
7 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (27.78%) Oracle
2 19 (8.80%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.02%) Avaloq
4 11 (5.09%) PayPal
5 9 (4.17%) Google
6 7 (3.24%) Databricks
7 6 (2.78%) IBM
8 4 (1.85%) AVEVA
8 4 (1.85%) Brocade
8 4 (1.85%) Commvault
8 4 (1.85%) EMC
8 4 (1.85%) Infragistics
8 4 (1.85%) NetApp
8 4 (1.85%) Sybase
8 4 (1.85%) Veritas
9 3 (1.39%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.93%) Greenplum
10 2 (0.93%) Informatica
10 2 (0.93%) Teradata