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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 68 50
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 14 16 28
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.94% 1.98% 3.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.24% 8.94% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 18
10th Percentile £330 £372 £413
25th Percentile £358 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £496 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -4.62% +16.92%
75th Percentile £509 £567 £600
90th Percentile £575 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £455 £496 £550
% change year-on-year -8.27% -9.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 £26.93 -
% change year-on-year +137.70% - -

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 170 179 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.51% 22.15% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 119 139
10th Percentile £313 £289 £308
25th Percentile £350 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £516 £544 £535
90th Percentile £572 £589 £659
Scotland median daily rate £431 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -8.24% -1.05% -3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.50 £20.16 -
25th Percentile £38.75 £21.01 £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £23.05 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.42% -56.10% +50.00%
75th Percentile £46.25 £25.71 £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 £26.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
% change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%

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 20 April 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Power BI
1 6 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (21.43%) MySQL
3 3 (21.43%) Tableau
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) Power Query
4 1 (7.14%) QlikView
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) NUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Site Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) HTML Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
1 7 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (35.71%) Observability
2 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 4 (28.57%) Validation
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) Change Management
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) ITSM
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) Runbook
4 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) Bash
5 2 (14.29%) C#
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat