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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 215 286 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.13% 10.67% 10.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.20% 32.10% 35.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 188 260
10th Percentile £350 £397 £360
25th Percentile £397 £419 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £550
90th Percentile £575 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £540
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.31% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £52.07 £30.60
25th Percentile - £58.57 £38.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £66.56 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.49% +47.92% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £69.06 £52.50
90th Percentile - £69.63 £60.60
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £53.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.93% +53.57% +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 594 891 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.98% 33.23% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 619 749
10th Percentile £350 £400 £390
25th Percentile £410 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £41.90 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £50.37 £32.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.27 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +23.97% +2.17%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.11 £55.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
% change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +5 111 £435 -10.77% 27
Edinburgh -5 75 £475 -2.56% 46
South Lanarkshire +10 5 £575 +27.78% 1
Perthshire +7 5 £475 -13.64%
Aberdeen 0 2 £381 - 11
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
Fife - 1 - - 5
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 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.40%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) Apache
3 2 (0.93%) StreamWeaver
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.93%) EngageOne
3 2 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 64 (29.77%) AWS
2 29 (13.49%) Azure
3 25 (11.63%) Amazon S3
4 21 (9.77%) Serverless
5 20 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (8.84%) OpenShift
7 17 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.51%) Power Platform
9 13 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (4.65%) AWS CodePipeline
12 9 (4.19%) OCI
13 8 (3.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (3.26%) npm
15 5 (2.33%) Snowflake
16 4 (1.86%) AWS CodeBuild
16 4 (1.86%) AWS CodeCommit
16 4 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
16 4 (1.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Broadband
1 2 (0.93%) SMS
2 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.56%) Oracle Database
2 25 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 22 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (7.91%) Relational Database
5 16 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (6.51%) Power BI
7 13 (6.05%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (5.58%) MongoDB
9 11 (5.12%) Metadata
9 11 (5.12%) Tableau
10 9 (4.19%) Big Data
11 8 (3.72%) Informix
11 8 (3.72%) NoSQL
12 7 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (2.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (1.86%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.86%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.23%) JIRA
2 18 (8.37%) Git
2 18 (8.37%) Oracle APEX
3 11 (5.12%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.72%) Selenium
5 7 (3.26%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.26%) GitLab
5 7 (3.26%) WebDriver
6 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.40%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.40%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.40%) webpack
8 2 (0.93%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.93%) ERwin
8 2 (0.93%) JUnit
8 2 (0.93%) Subversion
9 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.47%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) TestComplete
General
1 47 (21.86%) Finance
1 47 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.53%) Public Sector
3 33 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.98%) Banking
5 9 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.79%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Publishing
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing
9 2 (0.93%) Retail
9 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.47%) Humanities
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 94 (43.72%) Developer
2 33 (15.35%) Senior
3 26 (12.09%) Java Developer
4 21 (9.77%) Analyst
5 16 (7.44%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.05%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.58%) Oracle Developer
7 12 (5.58%) Software Developer
8 11 (5.12%) Data Analyst
8 11 (5.12%) Database Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (4.19%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 8 (3.72%) Database Developer
11 8 (3.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (3.72%) SQL Developer
12 7 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.26%) DBA
12 7 (3.26%) Full Stack Engineer
12 7 (3.26%) SQL DBA
13 6 (2.79%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (18.14%) REST
2 37 (17.21%) Spring
3 32 (14.88%) HTML
4 27 (12.56%) Spring Boot
5 25 (11.63%) CSS
6 21 (9.77%) AWS CDK
7 19 (8.84%) AngularJS
8 15 (6.98%) RESTful
9 13 (6.05%) React
10 10 (4.65%) .NET
10 10 (4.65%) JPA
11 9 (4.19%) SOAP
12 8 (3.72%) Kafka
13 6 (2.79%) OAuth
14 5 (2.33%) Node.js
14 5 (2.33%) XML
15 4 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
15 4 (1.86%) Playwright
15 4 (1.86%) WinForms
15 4 (1.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.65%) Public Cloud
3 9 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.72%) Replication
5 7 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.40%) Tandem
8 2 (0.93%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.93%) Social Media
9 1 (0.47%) Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.56%) Unix
2 11 (5.12%) Linux
3 10 (4.65%) Windows
4 4 (1.86%) VMS
4 4 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (39.07%) Agile
2 36 (16.74%) CI/CD
3 34 (15.81%) Artificial Intelligence
4 30 (13.95%) DevOps
4 30 (13.95%) Software Engineering
5 28 (13.02%) Data Modelling
5 28 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (13.02%) SDLC
6 26 (12.09%) Migration
7 25 (11.63%) Microservices
8 23 (10.70%) Scrum
9 22 (10.23%) Full Stack Development
10 18 (8.37%) Analytics
10 18 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (8.37%) CRM
10 18 (8.37%) Machine Learning
10 18 (8.37%) Test Automation
10 18 (8.37%) Unit Testing
11 16 (7.44%) Kanban
11 16 (7.44%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.40%) Java
2 45 (20.93%) PL/SQL
3 32 (14.88%) Python
4 29 (13.49%) C#
5 26 (12.09%) TypeScript
6 24 (11.16%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.91%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.19%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.72%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.86%) Perl
10 4 (1.86%) VB
10 4 (1.86%) VB6
11 2 (0.93%) C++
11 2 (0.93%) Rust
11 2 (0.93%) VBA
11 2 (0.93%) VBScript
12 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (14.88%) Degree
2 16 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.86%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.40%) ISEB
6 3 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.47%) MCSE
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.72%) QA
2 6 (2.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (6.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (8.37%) Grafana
2 12 (5.58%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) Kibana
3 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (31.16%) Oracle
2 20 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.05%) Avaloq
4 11 (5.12%) PayPal
5 8 (3.72%) Google
6 7 (3.26%) Databricks
7 4 (1.86%) AVEVA
7 4 (1.86%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.86%) Commvault
7 4 (1.86%) Infragistics
7 4 (1.86%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.40%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) Brandwatch
9 2 (0.93%) Hootsuite
9 2 (0.93%) IDERA
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
9 2 (0.93%) Instagram
9 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.93%) YouTube