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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 219 276 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.22% 10.31% 10.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.96% 30.94% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 182 260
10th Percentile £350 £400 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £548 £544
90th Percentile £575 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.47% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £52.07 £26.70
25th Percentile - £58.57 £28.50
Median hourly rate £21.64 £66.56 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.49% +75.16% -36.67%
75th Percentile - £69.06 £44.63
90th Percentile - £69.63 £46.65
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +29.73%

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 609 892 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.42% 33.32% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 626 721
10th Percentile £350 £406 £381
25th Percentile £412 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £550
90th Percentile £616 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

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 1 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 1 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 +6 115 £435 -10.77% 32
Edinburgh -4 71 £494 +1.33% 51
West Lothian - 6 - - 1
South Lanarkshire +10 5 £575 +27.78% 1
Perthshire +7 5 £475 -13.64% 1
Aberdeen 0 2 £381 - 9
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 5 (2.28%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.28%) Confluence
2 4 (1.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) SAS
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 12 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.02%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.28%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 65 (29.68%) AWS
2 30 (13.70%) Azure
3 23 (10.50%) Amazon S3
4 20 (9.13%) Serverless
5 19 (8.68%) OpenShift
6 18 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (6.85%) Power Platform
9 13 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (4.11%) AWS CodePipeline
11 9 (4.11%) OCI
12 6 (2.74%) npm
13 5 (2.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (2.28%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.83%) GCP
14 4 (1.83%) PaaS
15 3 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) Broadband
1 2 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (0.91%) iSCSI
1 2 (0.91%) SAN
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.24%) Oracle Database
2 25 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (11.42%) SQL Server
3 21 (9.59%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (8.68%) Relational Database
5 16 (7.31%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (6.85%) Power BI
7 12 (5.48%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (5.02%) Metadata
8 11 (5.02%) Tableau
9 10 (4.57%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.65%) NoSQL
11 7 (3.20%) Big Data
12 6 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (2.74%) Informix
12 6 (2.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (1.83%) DB2
14 3 (1.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (10.96%) JIRA
2 22 (10.05%) Git
3 18 (8.22%) Oracle APEX
4 17 (7.76%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.11%) GitLab
6 8 (3.65%) Selenium
7 7 (3.20%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.20%) WebDriver
8 6 (2.74%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.74%) JUnit
9 5 (2.28%) Postman
10 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.37%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.37%) webpack
12 2 (0.91%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.91%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.91%) Subversion
General
1 51 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.37%) Finance
3 40 (18.26%) Public Sector
4 33 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.85%) Banking
6 12 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.74%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Publishing
10 2 (0.91%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.46%) Humanities
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 91 (41.55%) Developer
2 33 (15.07%) Senior
3 27 (12.33%) Java Developer
4 21 (9.59%) Analyst
5 16 (7.31%) Data Engineer
6 12 (5.48%) Oracle Developer
6 12 (5.48%) Senior Developer
6 12 (5.48%) Software Developer
7 11 (5.02%) Data Analyst
8 9 (4.11%) Database Engineer
8 9 (4.11%) Full Stack Engineer
8 9 (4.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
9 8 (3.65%) SQL Developer
10 7 (3.20%) Database Developer
10 7 (3.20%) DBA
10 7 (3.20%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 7 (3.20%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.20%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.63%) REST
2 41 (18.72%) Spring
3 33 (15.07%) Spring Boot
4 31 (14.16%) HTML
5 26 (11.87%) CSS
6 20 (9.13%) AWS CDK
7 18 (8.22%) AngularJS
8 16 (7.31%) RESTful
9 13 (5.94%) React
10 12 (5.48%) Kafka
11 11 (5.02%) JPA
12 10 (4.57%) .NET
13 7 (3.20%) SOAP
14 6 (2.74%) OAuth
15 5 (2.28%) Apache Camel
15 5 (2.28%) Node.js
16 4 (1.83%) J2EE
16 4 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
16 4 (1.83%) Playwright
16 4 (1.83%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.48%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.02%) Public Cloud
3 10 (4.57%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.65%) Replication
6 5 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.83%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.37%) Tandem
8 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.91%) NVMe
9 2 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.91%) Social Media
10 1 (0.46%) Clustering
10 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.33%) Unix
2 12 (5.48%) Linux
2 12 (5.48%) Windows
3 6 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.83%) VMS
5 2 (0.91%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.27%) Agile
2 39 (17.81%) CI/CD
3 34 (15.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 32 (14.61%) DevOps
5 31 (14.16%) Software Engineering
6 29 (13.24%) Data Modelling
6 29 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (13.24%) SDLC
7 28 (12.79%) Microservices
8 25 (11.42%) Migration
9 24 (10.96%) Scrum
10 22 (10.05%) Full Stack Development
11 19 (8.68%) Analytics
11 19 (8.68%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (8.22%) CRM
12 18 (8.22%) Machine Learning
12 18 (8.22%) Test Automation
12 18 (8.22%) Unit Testing
13 17 (7.76%) Decision-Making
14 15 (6.85%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.20%) Java
2 46 (21.00%) PL/SQL
3 37 (16.89%) Python
4 29 (13.24%) C#
5 26 (11.87%) TypeScript
6 25 (11.42%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.76%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.11%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.65%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.83%) Perl
11 4 (1.83%) VB
11 4 (1.83%) VB6
12 2 (0.91%) C++
12 2 (0.91%) Rust
12 2 (0.91%) VBA
12 2 (0.91%) VBScript
13 1 (0.46%) C
13 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (14.61%) Degree
2 15 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.83%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.37%) ISEB
6 3 (1.37%) 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 (3.20%) QA
2 6 (2.74%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (8.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) GPFS
3 2 (0.91%) NFS
Systems Management
1 17 (7.76%) Grafana
2 10 (4.57%) Ansible
3 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.37%) Kibana
5 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.91%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (30.14%) Oracle
2 20 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.94%) Avaloq
4 11 (5.02%) PayPal
5 9 (4.11%) Google
6 8 (3.65%) Databricks
7 4 (1.83%) AVEVA
7 4 (1.83%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.83%) Commvault
7 4 (1.83%) Infragistics
8 3 (1.37%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.37%) IBM
8 3 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.91%) Brandwatch
9 2 (0.91%) Facebook
9 2 (0.91%) Hootsuite
9 2 (0.91%) IDERA
9 2 (0.91%) Instagram
9 2 (0.91%) Splunk
9 2 (0.91%) Twitter