SQL Server Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 55 47
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 16 25 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.04% 2.90% 3.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.04% 14.53% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 30
10th Percentile £411 £413 £376
25th Percentile £419 £463 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £563 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +27.99% -3.41%
75th Percentile £567 £619 £521
90th Percentile £588 £675 £589
Scotland median daily rate £498 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.45% +15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.93 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +143.48%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 177 172 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.58% 19.98% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 133 144
10th Percentile £288 £293 £377
25th Percentile £398 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £638
90th Percentile £589 £634 £750
Scotland median daily rate £472 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -0.63% -3.06% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £20.16 - £24.95
25th Percentile £21.01 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.05 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.10% +50.00% -25.53%
75th Percentile £25.71 £53.75 £66.56
90th Percentile £26.93 - £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Glasgow over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (18.75%) OCI
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) DB2
3 1 (6.25%) OLAP
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Back Office
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Database Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Database Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Angular Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) Express.js
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 2 (12.50%) pytest
3 1 (6.25%) J2EE
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
1 3 (18.75%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (25.00%) AIX
3 4 (25.00%) Solaris
4 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) High Availability
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) Problem Management
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Database Tuning
4 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 2 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Data Guard
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) Podman
4 2 (12.50%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Oracle
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (37.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (18.75%) Dell
4 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
5 2 (12.50%) Netskope
5 2 (12.50%) Proofpoint
5 2 (12.50%) Splunk
5 2 (12.50%) Symantec
5 2 (12.50%) VMware
6 1 (6.25%) Databricks
6 1 (6.25%) Greenplum
6 1 (6.25%) Sybase