SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 64 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 31 22 11
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.68% 2.99% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.78% 10.43% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 8
10th Percentile £304 £313 £401
25th Percentile £363 £375 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +3.83% -2.66%
75th Percentile £425 £734 £603
90th Percentile £475 £738 £744
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.92
Scotland median hourly rate £37.50 - £16.92

All Database & BI Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 225 211 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.45% 28.63% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 112 86
10th Percentile £313 £313 £324
25th Percentile £325 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £474 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.10% +11.41% -13.27%
75th Percentile £500 £546 £499
90th Percentile £588 £648 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £494 £460
% change year-on-year -13.97% +7.39% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £17.45
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.26
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year - +180.76% -70.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -31.82% +180.76% -69.57%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Glasgow over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Power Platform
2 6 (19.35%) Snowflake
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (29.03%) Relational Database
2 7 (22.58%) MySQL
2 7 (22.58%) Power BI
3 6 (19.35%) Tableau
4 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.45%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) Maven
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (6.45%) tSQLt
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Mockito
3 1 (3.23%) Postman
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) DBA
2 10 (32.26%) SQL DBA
2 10 (32.26%) SQL Server DBA
3 8 (25.81%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Lead
4 5 (16.13%) Site Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Administrator
6 2 (6.45%) Lead SQL Server Developer
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Senior SQL DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Senior SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Spring
1 5 (16.13%) Spring Boot
2 4 (12.90%) Kafka
3 3 (9.68%) RESTful
3 3 (9.68%) Spring Batch
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (6.45%) JWT
5 1 (3.23%) ADO.NET
5 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.23%) JDBC
5 1 (3.23%) Middleware
5 1 (3.23%) ODBC
5 1 (3.23%) React
5 1 (3.23%) SOAP
5 1 (3.23%) Swagger
5 1 (3.23%) Web Services
5 1 (3.23%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) VMS
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 9 (29.03%) Data Modelling
3 8 (25.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (22.58%) Analytics
4 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (22.58%) Observability
4 7 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (22.58%) Validation
5 6 (19.35%) AI
5 6 (19.35%) Code Quality
5 6 (19.35%) Generative AI
5 6 (19.35%) Incident Management
5 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (19.35%) Runbook
5 6 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (19.35%) Software Delivery
6 5 (16.13%) Agile
6 5 (16.13%) Change Management
6 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 7 (22.58%) T-SQL
4 6 (19.35%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) Bash
5 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.23%) Scala
7 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) QA
2 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.23%) GxP
3 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (3.23%) Grafana
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) RedGate
3 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Teradata