T-SQL Contracts in Scotland

Transact-SQL
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 154 155
Rank change year-on-year +38 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 11 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.51% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.81% 1.56% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 16
10th Percentile £377 £323 £350
25th Percentile £398 £388 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% -10.53% +22.58%
75th Percentile £475 £466 £516
90th Percentile £550 £488 £575
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% +13.89%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

T-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 609 900 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.40% 33.38% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 630 722
10th Percentile £350 £406 £382
25th Percentile £412 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.87% +14.88%
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 14
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £29.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +29.03% -0.54%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.39
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.98
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in Scotland

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in Scotland

T-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 T-SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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 +14 4 £488 +28.29% 3
South Lanarkshire - 4 - - 1
Edinburgh +27 3 £427 -10.21% 4
T-SQL
UK

T-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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
1 2 (18.18%) PaaS
1 2 (18.18%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) SQL DBA
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DBA
3 2 (18.18%) Senior SQL DBA
3 2 (18.18%) Senior SQL Server DBA
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) Entity Framework
1 2 (18.18%) jQuery
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
1 2 (18.18%) OpenID
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) SOAP
1 2 (18.18%) WCF
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (27.27%) High Availability
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
1 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
3 1 (9.09%) RBAC
3 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Security Patching
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) PowerShell
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Atlassian