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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 58 127
Rank change year-on-year +5 +69 -72
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 17 25 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.58% 3.52% 2.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.08% 14.12% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 69
10th Percentile £45,560 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £36,813 £43,750
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 £61,250
90th Percentile - £77,500 £66,250
Scotland median annual salary £58,000 £48,422 £52,000
% change year-on-year +19.78% -6.88% +9.47%

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 77 177 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.16% 24.89% 33.32%
Number of salaries quoted 42 43 166
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,350 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,438 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.34%
75th Percentile £73,125 £73,750 £62,438
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,150 £71,250
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.94%

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 16 July 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 (11.76%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) GitHub
1 7 (41.18%) GitHub Copilot
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) MySQL
2 5 (29.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior SQL Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior SQL Server Developer
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Developer
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Analyst
5 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
6 2 (11.76%) DBA
6 2 (11.76%) Software Analyst
6 2 (11.76%) Software Support Analyst
6 2 (11.76%) SQL DBA
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Support
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) Database Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
1 7 (41.18%) JPA
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
1 7 (41.18%) REST
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
1 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
2 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) AIX
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Data Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Data Security
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Open Source
5 2 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
1 8 (47.06%) Python
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow