SQL Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing SQL 81 130 117
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.20% 15.91% 12.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.14% 31.48% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 73 72
10th Percentile £358 £300 £400
25th Percentile £381 £356 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -10.53% +6.80%
75th Percentile £538 £480 £588
90th Percentile £638 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.59 -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 £19.59 £21.64
% change year-on-year +226.70% -9.47% -54.44%

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 278 413 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.45% 50.55% 39.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 205 224
10th Percentile £313 £318 £363
25th Percentile £375 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -11.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £641
90th Percentile £606 £581 £726
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.12% -7.10% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £42.50 - £51.50
25th Percentile £51.25 - £51.88
Median hourly rate £56.86 £19.59 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +190.26% -64.38% +1.80%
75th Percentile £62.02 - £57.50
90th Percentile £63.42 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 £22.44 £57.75
% change year-on-year +161.73% -61.15% -3.93%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Glasgow

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL

SQL
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 6 (7.41%) Apache
2 4 (4.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.70%) Apache Geronimo
3 3 (3.70%) Apache ServiceMix
3 3 (3.70%) CMS
3 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (3.70%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.70%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (2.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.40%) AWS
2 22 (27.16%) Azure
3 10 (12.35%) Snowflake
4 7 (8.64%) GCP
4 7 (8.64%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon Neptune
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.47%) Serverless
8 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) DSL
2 1 (1.23%) Network Security
2 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.40%) Relational Database
2 16 (19.75%) Data Lake
3 13 (16.05%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
5 8 (9.88%) Metadata
5 8 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (8.64%) Power BI
7 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.94%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.94%) DB2
8 4 (4.94%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.70%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.70%) MySQL
9 3 (3.70%) Tableau
10 2 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.47%) Big Data
10 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Git
1 6 (7.41%) GitLab
2 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.94%) JUnit
3 3 (3.70%) MLflow
4 1 (1.23%) JIRA
4 1 (1.23%) TestComplete
4 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (39.51%) Finance
2 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
3 17 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (18.52%) Banking
5 11 (13.58%) Investment Banking
6 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.94%) Front Office
9 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.23%) Law
10 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.23%) Marketing
10 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (25.93%) Analyst
2 19 (23.46%) Developer
3 16 (19.75%) Data Analyst
4 15 (18.52%) Data Engineer
5 14 (17.28%) Java Developer
6 9 (11.11%) Senior
7 8 (9.88%) SQL Developer
8 7 (8.64%) Business Analyst
9 5 (6.17%) Architect
9 5 (6.17%) DBA
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.94%) Data Modeller
10 4 (4.94%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Lead
10 4 (4.94%) Linux Developer
10 4 (4.94%) PowerShell Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.52%) PySpark
2 13 (16.05%) Spring
3 10 (12.35%) Kafka
4 6 (7.41%) React
5 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.94%) JMS
7 3 (3.70%) Apache Axis
7 3 (3.70%) Apache Camel
7 3 (3.70%) CSS
7 3 (3.70%) CSS3
7 3 (3.70%) Ext JS
7 3 (3.70%) Hibernate
7 3 (3.70%) HTML
7 3 (3.70%) HTML5
7 3 (3.70%) Jest
7 3 (3.70%) JSON
7 3 (3.70%) Middleware
7 3 (3.70%) Redux
7 3 (3.70%) Streamlit
7 3 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) CMDB
2 9 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 9 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (9.88%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.17%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.94%) Equities
5 4 (4.94%) Replication
6 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.47%) W3C
8 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Linux
2 6 (7.41%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Windows
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) Data Modelling
2 26 (32.10%) Agile
2 26 (32.10%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (24.69%) Analytics
4 17 (20.99%) Data Lineage
5 16 (19.75%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (17.28%) Data Architecture
6 14 (17.28%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (16.05%) Data Analysis
7 13 (16.05%) Data Governance
7 13 (16.05%) Visualisation
8 12 (14.81%) DevOps
8 12 (14.81%) ETL
9 11 (13.58%) ITIL
10 10 (12.35%) Data Transformation
11 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 9 (11.11%) Data Engineering
11 9 (11.11%) ITSM
11 9 (11.11%) Migration
11 9 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.98%) Python
2 21 (25.93%) Java
3 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.17%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.47%) Bash
6 2 (2.47%) C#
6 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.47%) SPARQL
6 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.17%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.70%) Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) GDPR
3 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.47%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.47%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.47%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.41%) Ansible
1 6 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Terraform
3 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Oracle
2 14 (17.28%) Microsoft
3 13 (16.05%) ServiceNow
4 12 (14.81%) Databricks
5 5 (6.17%) Teradata
6 4 (4.94%) Greenplum
6 4 (4.94%) Informatica
6 4 (4.94%) Sybase
6 4 (4.94%) Talend
7 3 (3.70%) Google
7 3 (3.70%) TIBCO
8 2 (2.47%) Ab Initio
8 2 (2.47%) Alteryx
8 2 (2.47%) Cloudera
8 2 (2.47%) FIS
8 2 (2.47%) Fiserv
8 2 (2.47%) IBM
8 2 (2.47%) SmartStream
8 2 (2.47%) Splunk
9 1 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud