SQL Server Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 68 62
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 37 96 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.74% 3.60% 3.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.76% 17.42% 22.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 68 86
10th Percentile £325 £376 £353
25th Percentile £363 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.85%
75th Percentile £591 £553 £525
90th Percentile £675 £620 £575
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.44% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +300.00% -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £48.75 £48.50
% change year-on-year -17.95% +0.52% +93.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence 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 database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 379 551 597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.79% 20.64% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 426 431
10th Percentile £322 £394 £363
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -0.73% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £551
90th Percentile £622 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £16.75
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £36.50
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.40
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
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 Server within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 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
Edinburgh +6 16 £375 -25.00% 14
Glasgow +1 15 £520 +18.32% 12
South Lanarkshire - 5 £575 - 1
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub
3 2 (5.41%) PaaS
3 2 (5.41%) Serverless
4 1 (2.70%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.70%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (13.51%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) DB2
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) Power Query
4 1 (2.70%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Selenium
1 5 (13.51%) WebDriver
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) German Language
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) DBA
1 10 (27.03%) SQL DBA
2 9 (24.32%) Senior
3 8 (21.62%) Developer
4 5 (13.51%) .NET Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Automation Tester
4 5 (13.51%) Tester
5 3 (8.11%) Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior DBA
5 3 (8.11%) Senior SQL DBA
5 3 (8.11%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 3 (8.11%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.41%) SQL Developer
7 1 (2.70%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.70%) PHP Web Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) .NET Core
2 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
2 3 (8.11%) Kafka
3 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (5.41%) CSS
3 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
3 2 (5.41%) jQuery
3 2 (5.41%) OAuth
3 2 (5.41%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.41%) OpenID
3 2 (5.41%) React
3 2 (5.41%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) SOAP
3 2 (5.41%) WCF
3 2 (5.41%) Web Services
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (2.70%) Clustering
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Linux
3 2 (5.41%) zOS
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) DevOps
2 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (16.22%) High Availability
3 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (13.51%) Problem Management
3 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
3 5 (13.51%) Test Scripting
4 4 (10.81%) Agile
4 4 (10.81%) Migration
5 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.11%) MVC
6 2 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (5.41%) Data Migration
6 2 (5.41%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (5.41%) Incident Response
6 2 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.41%) Security Architecture
6 2 (5.41%) SIEM
6 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (5.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) SQL
2 16 (43.24%) C#
3 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
4 10 (27.03%) T-SQL
5 4 (10.81%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.70%) PHP
7 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) MCSE
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (5.41%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) AVEVA
3 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) F5
4 2 (5.41%) Qualys
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Sybase