SQL Server Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 59 101
Rank change year-on-year +4 +42 -84
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 21 22 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.60% 3.03% 3.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.33% 14.01% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 34
10th Percentile £46,155 £34,200 £36,775
25th Percentile £53,188 £39,250 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £59,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £62,500
Scotland median annual salary £63,750 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +34.21% -5.00% -

All Database & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 90 157 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.86% 21.63% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 47 41 101
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £39,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.48% -9.13%
75th Percentile £75,375 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Glasgow over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Glasgow

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 2 (9.52%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
1 6 (28.57%) GitHub
1 6 (28.57%) GitHub Copilot
2 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.76%) Datadog
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) IaaS
3 1 (4.76%) OCI
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) MySQL
2 6 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 4 (19.05%) Power BI
4 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.76%) Redis
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.76%) Flyway
3 1 (4.76%) Liquibase
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior SQL Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior SQL Server Developer
4 4 (19.05%) SQL Developer
4 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Systems Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Software Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) SQL DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) REST
2 6 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 6 (28.57%) JPA
2 6 (28.57%) Kafka
2 6 (28.57%) Spring
2 6 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 4 (19.05%) .NET
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.52%) ODBC
4 2 (9.52%) XML
4 2 (9.52%) XSLT
5 1 (4.76%) NestJS
5 1 (4.76%) Node.js
5 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
1 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Analytics
2 7 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 6 (28.57%) Microservices
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (14.29%) High Availability
5 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) SDLC
6 2 (9.52%) System Integration Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
6 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.52%) C#
5 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
5 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
5 2 (9.52%) VB.NET
5 2 (9.52%) XPath
6 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Intapp
4 1 (4.76%) New Relic
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow