SQL Contracts in Glasgow

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 159 82 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.90% 11.85% 12.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.41% 32.93% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 62 68
10th Percentile £300 £322 £396
25th Percentile £360 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £489 £586
90th Percentile £585 £538 £652
Scotland median daily rate £450 £433 £475
% change year-on-year +3.93% -8.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £18.83 - £50.62
25th Percentile £24.44 - £54.96
Median hourly rate £35.05 £16.92 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year +107.12% -73.72% -
75th Percentile £46.90 - £67.66
90th Percentile £53.26 - £68.31
Scotland median hourly rate £35.05 £16.92 £64.38
% change year-on-year +107.12% -73.72% +147.60%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 414 249 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 51.81% 35.98% 35.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 183 187
10th Percentile £300 £327 £400
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £552 £500 £588
90th Percentile £600 £613 £676
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £22.57 £34.09 £49.09
25th Percentile £33.80 £51.56 £53.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.56
90th Percentile - - £67.44
Scotland median hourly rate £58.75 £53.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.30% -6.52% +27.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Glasgow

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Glasgow

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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 11 (6.92%) Confluence
2 3 (1.89%) JBoss
2 3 (1.89%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.89%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.89%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.26%) CMS
3 2 (1.26%) SAS
3 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.63%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.58%) Azure
2 14 (8.81%) AWS
3 11 (6.92%) IaaS
4 9 (5.66%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.14%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.52%) GCP
6 4 (2.52%) SaaS
6 4 (2.52%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.89%) OCI
7 3 (1.89%) PaaS
7 3 (1.89%) Serverless
8 2 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.26%) GitHub
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.63%) Figma
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.26%) SAN
3 1 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.63%) FTP
3 1 (0.63%) HTTP
3 1 (0.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (35.85%) Relational Database
2 41 (25.79%) DB2
3 31 (19.50%) MongoDB
4 13 (8.18%) RDBMS
5 12 (7.55%) Oracle Database
6 11 (6.92%) NoSQL
7 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
8 9 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (5.66%) Power BI
9 7 (4.40%) Tableau
10 6 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.14%) CockroachDB
11 5 (3.14%) NewSQL
12 4 (2.52%) OLTP
12 4 (2.52%) Redis
13 3 (1.89%) Big Data
13 3 (1.89%) MySQL
13 3 (1.89%) Oracle Exadata
13 3 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (1.26%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 41 (25.79%) JUnit
2 23 (14.47%) Git
3 16 (10.06%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.81%) JIRA
5 6 (3.77%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (3.14%) Mockito
6 5 (3.14%) PVCS
6 5 (3.14%) Subversion
7 4 (2.52%) GitLab
8 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.89%) Maven
8 3 (1.89%) Toad
9 2 (1.26%) Gradle
10 1 (0.63%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.63%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (44.03%) Social Skills
2 57 (35.85%) Finance
3 40 (25.16%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (18.24%) Banking
5 25 (15.72%) Front Office
6 21 (13.21%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.03%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.26%) Back Office
10 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 91 (57.23%) Developer
2 71 (44.65%) Java Developer
3 40 (25.16%) SQL Developer
4 24 (15.09%) Analyst
5 20 (12.58%) Linux Developer
6 16 (10.06%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 16 (10.06%) Sybase Developer
7 15 (9.43%) Python Engineer
8 12 (7.55%) Core Java Developer
9 11 (6.92%) Senior
10 10 (6.29%) Data Analyst
10 10 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) Oracle Developer
12 8 (5.03%) Database Engineer
12 8 (5.03%) VMware Engineer
13 6 (3.77%) Business Analyst
13 6 (3.77%) Senior Developer
14 5 (3.14%) Data Engineer
15 4 (2.52%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (37.74%) Spring
2 44 (27.67%) Kafka
3 28 (17.61%) JMS
4 16 (10.06%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.29%) REST
6 9 (5.66%) OAuth
6 9 (5.66%) React
7 8 (5.03%) RESTful
8 7 (4.40%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.40%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.14%) Java EE
9 5 (3.14%) OpenID
9 5 (3.14%) SAML
10 4 (2.52%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.52%) Flask
10 4 (2.52%) LangChain
10 4 (2.52%) Loki
10 4 (2.52%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.52%) SOAP
10 4 (2.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (27.04%) Data Structures
2 24 (15.09%) Equities
3 15 (9.43%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (8.18%) Management Information System
5 12 (7.55%) Virtual Team
6 11 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (5.66%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.77%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.77%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.77%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.89%) Clustering
10 3 (1.89%) Derivative
10 3 (1.89%) Replication
11 2 (1.26%) CMDB
11 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (50.94%) Linux
2 23 (14.47%) Unix
3 6 (3.77%) Windows
4 4 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.89%) AIX
5 3 (1.89%) Solaris
6 1 (0.63%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (50.31%) Agile
2 69 (43.40%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (24.53%) Multithreading
3 39 (24.53%) SDLC
4 30 (18.87%) Software Engineering
5 28 (17.61%) Performance Tuning
6 27 (16.98%) Open Source
7 25 (15.72%) Database Tuning
8 23 (14.47%) DevOps
9 20 (12.58%) Data Modelling
10 19 (11.95%) Computer Science
11 17 (10.69%) ETL
11 17 (10.69%) High Availability
11 17 (10.69%) Microservices
12 16 (10.06%) Data Analysis
13 15 (9.43%) CI/CD
13 15 (9.43%) Test Automation
14 13 (8.18%) Concurrent Programming
14 13 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (8.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.31%) Java
2 67 (42.14%) Python
3 28 (17.61%) Shell Script
4 19 (11.95%) PL/SQL
5 11 (6.92%) Perl
6 9 (5.66%) Erlang
6 9 (5.66%) Prolog
7 5 (3.14%) C
7 5 (3.14%) ProC
8 4 (2.52%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (1.89%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.26%) VBA
11 1 (0.63%) C#
11 1 (0.63%) R
11 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (7.55%) Degree
2 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.89%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.63%) CBAP
5 1 (0.63%) HNC
5 1 (0.63%) HND
5 1 (0.63%) IIBA
5 1 (0.63%) ISEB
5 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.40%) GDPR
3 6 (3.77%) QA
4 5 (3.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.89%) Docker
2 3 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.26%) GPFS
4 1 (0.63%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.52%) Grafana
2 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.89%) Data Guard
3 3 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.89%) Kustomize
3 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (1.89%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (1.26%) Terraform
4 2 (1.26%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 34 (21.38%) Sybase
2 33 (20.75%) Oracle
3 12 (7.55%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.66%) VMware
5 6 (3.77%) IBM
6 4 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.89%) Databricks
7 3 (1.89%) Dell
7 3 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.26%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.26%) Brocade
8 2 (1.26%) EMC
8 2 (1.26%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.26%) NetApp
8 2 (1.26%) Veritas
9 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.63%) Google
9 1 (0.63%) Greenplum
9 1 (0.63%) Talend