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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 62 131
Rank change year-on-year +12 +69 -57
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 13 24 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.29% 3.92% 2.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.31% 14.04% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 80
10th Percentile £46,155 £32,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £51,000 £35,375 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £44,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.07% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile - £77,750 £65,000
Scotland median annual salary £61,250 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.29% -3.81% +10.53%

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 61 171 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.07% 27.90% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 34 42 182
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,000 £36,025
25th Percentile £27,500 £37,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -9.40%
75th Percentile £79,688 £73,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,425 £73,500
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%

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 18 June 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 (15.38%) WebSphere
1 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) OCI
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior SQL Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior SQL Server Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Support Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
5 2 (15.38%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) DBA
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
6 1 (7.69%) Administrator
6 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Software Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
2 2 (15.38%) JPA
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) ODBC
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) AIX
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Solaris
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Analytics
1 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
2 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (23.08%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Data Security
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) ITSM
3 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
3 2 (15.38%) Open Source
3 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) VMware