SQL Server Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 61 71
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 16 15 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.46% 1.73% 3.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.03% 9.93% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 26
10th Percentile £410 £289 £388
25th Percentile £456 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £589 £436 £569
90th Percentile £638 £701 £713
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -3.06%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 145 151 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.27% 17.42% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 107 206
10th Percentile £413 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £497
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.47% -0.55%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £596 £663 £626
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
3 2 (12.50%) Boomi
3 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
3 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
3 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (12.50%) PowerCenter
5 1 (6.25%) GIS
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) DBA
2 2 (12.50%) Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Developer
2 2 (12.50%) SQL DBA
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) CRM Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Database Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) ICT Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) AIX
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Solaris
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Migration
1 5 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) ETL
3 3 (18.75%) Data Management
3 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Data Transformation
3 3 (18.75%) Database Security
3 3 (18.75%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) High Availability
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Database Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) Terminal Services
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
1 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Flashback
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) Teradata
4 2 (12.50%) Dell
4 2 (12.50%) Informatica
5 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
5 1 (6.25%) Commvault
5 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 1 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.25%) SonicWALL
5 1 (6.25%) TSYS
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