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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 64 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -32 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 25 19 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.69% 2.41% 6.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.86% 11.88% 36.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 24
10th Percentile £40,160 £32,825 £33,625
25th Percentile £50,500 £36,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +12.36% -11.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,313 £55,000
90th Percentile - £77,500 £62,500
Scotland median annual salary £64,500 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +35.79% -2.06% -3.00%

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 81 160 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.47% 20.25% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 44 44 70
10th Percentile £28,475 £35,225 £37,200
25th Percentile £40,259 £38,438 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +7.89% -17.39%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £63,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,375 £71,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £49,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.55% -0.50% -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 8 October 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 (8.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
1 6 (24.00%) GitHub
1 6 (24.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.00%) Datadog
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
4 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) MySQL
2 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.00%) Power BI
3 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.00%) Redis
5 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.00%) Flyway
3 1 (4.00%) Liquibase
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Legal
3 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior SQL Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior SQL Server Developer
5 4 (16.00%) SQL Developer
5 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Firmware Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Systems Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Software Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Software Support Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Systems Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Database Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Database Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) .NET
1 8 (32.00%) REST
2 6 (24.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (24.00%) JPA
2 6 (24.00%) Kafka
2 6 (24.00%) Spring
2 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (12.00%) XML
3 3 (12.00%) XSLT
4 1 (4.00%) NestJS
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) ODBC
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
4 1 (4.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (8.00%) FPGA
2 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) AIX
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Analytics
1 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (24.00%) Data Analytics
2 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (24.00%) Microservices
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (16.00%) SDLC
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) High Availability
4 3 (12.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (8.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.00%) VB.NET
5 3 (12.00%) XPath
6 2 (8.00%) C
6 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.00%) Bash
7 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Firmware
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Intapp
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow