SQL Server Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 86 45
Rank change year-on-year -26 -41 -25
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 209 167 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.12% 3.49% 5.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.70% 19.26% 31.07%
Number of salaries quoted 165 122 229
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £31,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,899 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,960 £82,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,953 867 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.12% 18.14% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 498 485 578
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,833 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £89,852 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -33 126 £50,000 +5.26% 18
Edinburgh -3 41 £62,500 -1.96% 21
Aberdeen +5 25 £53,750 +26.47% 5
Dundee - 9 £47,500 - 1
Falkirk - 2 £55,000 - 2
Stirling - 2 £55,000 - 1
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £57,500 -
Fife -9 1 - - 2
South Lanarkshire - 1 £29,000 - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
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 24 (11.48%) IIS
2 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.35%) Apache
4 4 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.44%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (5.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (5.74%) PlanetPress Connect
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.48%) Maximo
3 1 (0.48%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 116 (55.50%) Azure
2 50 (23.92%) AWS
3 32 (15.31%) Power Platform
4 23 (11.00%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (8.61%) IaaS
6 17 (8.13%) GCP
6 17 (8.13%) PaaS
7 11 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.83%) SaaS
11 7 (3.35%) Serverless
12 6 (2.87%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.91%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.91%) OCI
14 3 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.96%) Fivetran
16 1 (0.48%) Azure Functions
16 1 (0.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.75%) WAN
2 21 (10.05%) Firewall
3 14 (6.70%) VPN
4 13 (6.22%) SD-WAN
5 11 (5.26%) Internet
6 10 (4.78%) Broadband
7 5 (2.39%) Wireless
8 2 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.27%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (15.31%) Power BI
3 23 (11.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 22 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (10.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (8.61%) MySQL
7 16 (7.66%) NoSQL
8 14 (6.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (5.26%) Relational Database
11 10 (4.78%) Big Data
11 10 (4.78%) MongoDB
12 7 (3.35%) Redis
13 6 (2.87%) OLAP
13 6 (2.87%) Oracle Database
14 5 (2.39%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.91%) Data Lake
16 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 33 (15.79%) Git
2 17 (8.13%) Jasmine
3 16 (7.66%) Karma Test Runner
4 15 (7.18%) Visual Studio Code
5 12 (5.74%) JIRA
5 12 (5.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (3.35%) Moq
7 2 (0.96%) GitLab
7 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.48%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 50 (23.92%) Finance
2 44 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (11.48%) Law
5 23 (11.00%) Banking
6 22 (10.53%) Private Banking
7 10 (4.78%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.39%) Retail
10 4 (1.91%) Games
11 3 (1.44%) Legal
11 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.96%) Police
13 1 (0.48%) Automotive
13 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (25.36%) Developer
2 28 (13.40%) DBA
3 27 (12.92%) Systems Engineer
4 22 (10.53%) Senior
5 21 (10.05%) SQL DBA
6 20 (9.57%) Analyst
7 18 (8.61%) .NET Developer
8 17 (8.13%) Database Engineer
9 15 (7.18%) Applications Support
9 15 (7.18%) Applications Support Analyst
9 15 (7.18%) Software Engineer
9 15 (7.18%) Support Analyst
10 14 (6.70%) Data Engineer
11 13 (6.22%) Software Developer
12 12 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (4.31%) Administrator
13 9 (4.31%) UI Developer
14 8 (3.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 7 (3.35%) .NET Software Engineer
15 7 (3.35%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.79%) .NET
2 49 (23.44%) AngularJS
3 44 (21.05%) ASP.NET
4 40 (19.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 34 (16.27%) ASP.NET Web API
6 32 (15.31%) CSS
6 32 (15.31%) HTML
7 25 (11.96%) .NET Framework
7 25 (11.96%) Entity Framework
8 22 (10.53%) .NET Core
8 22 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 22 (10.53%) jQuery
9 17 (8.13%) REST
9 17 (8.13%) Sass
10 16 (7.66%) OAuth
11 15 (7.18%) LESS
11 15 (7.18%) OAuth2
11 15 (7.18%) OpenAPI
11 15 (7.18%) RESTful
11 15 (7.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 22 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.53%) Clustering
3 14 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.22%) Data Centre
4 13 (6.22%) Replication
5 9 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.83%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.87%) BBC
7 6 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.87%) Social Media
8 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.39%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.91%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) CCTV
10 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (16.75%) Windows
2 31 (14.83%) Linux
3 30 (14.35%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.78%) VMS
5 5 (2.39%) CentOS
6 4 (1.91%) AIX
6 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.44%) Unix
8 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (23.44%) Agile
2 45 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (20.57%) MVC
4 35 (16.75%) Mentoring
5 33 (15.79%) High Availability
6 32 (15.31%) DevOps
7 26 (12.44%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (11.96%) ITIL
9 24 (11.48%) ETL
10 23 (11.00%) CI/CD
10 23 (11.00%) OO
10 23 (11.00%) Software Engineering
11 22 (10.53%) Asset Management
11 22 (10.53%) Investment Management
11 22 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
11 22 (10.53%) Prototyping
11 22 (10.53%) Wealth Management
12 20 (9.57%) Full Stack Development
13 19 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 103 (49.28%) SQL
2 58 (27.75%) C#
2 58 (27.75%) T-SQL
3 54 (25.84%) JavaScript
4 35 (16.75%) Java
5 21 (10.05%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.66%) PowerShell
7 13 (6.22%) Bash
8 10 (4.78%) C
9 9 (4.31%) Python
10 6 (2.87%) PHP
11 5 (2.39%) C++
11 5 (2.39%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.39%) VB
11 5 (2.39%) VBA
12 3 (1.44%) R
13 1 (0.48%) Scala
13 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.48%) VB6
Qualifications
1 35 (16.75%) Degree
2 24 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.22%) CCNA
5 13 (6.22%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.83%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.39%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.91%) OCP
8 4 (1.91%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.44%) HND
10 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.96%) OCA
11 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.66%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.18%) WAI
3 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.96%) QA
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (16.75%) VMware NSX
2 25 (11.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.66%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (6.22%) Active Directory
5 8 (3.83%) Docker
6 5 (2.39%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (11.48%) Terraform
2 23 (11.00%) Ansible
3 13 (6.22%) FortiGate
4 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.39%) Grafana
5 5 (2.39%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.91%) SCCM
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 105 (50.24%) Microsoft
2 45 (21.53%) VMware
3 14 (6.70%) NetApp
3 14 (6.70%) Oracle
4 13 (6.22%) Cisco
5 12 (5.74%) FNZ
6 10 (4.78%) Google
7 6 (2.87%) Apple
7 6 (2.87%) Facebook
7 6 (2.87%) Sony
7 6 (2.87%) Yahoo!
8 5 (2.39%) Dell
8 5 (2.39%) HP
9 4 (1.91%) Aderant
9 4 (1.91%) iManage
10 2 (0.96%) Citrix
10 2 (0.96%) Databricks
11 1 (0.48%) Darktrace
11 1 (0.48%) SAP
11 1 (0.48%) Teradata