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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 27 133
Rank change year-on-year -21 +106 -56
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 15 21 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.54% 4.98% 3.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.43% 27.63% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 86
10th Percentile £46,750 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,500 £36,500 £40,833
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 £56,875 £60,000
90th Percentile - £61,250 £65,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +23.71% -7.62% +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 70 76 1,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.17% 18.01% 37.63%
Number of salaries quoted 33 36 183
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £39,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -10.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £74,350
Scotland median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -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 21 May 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 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
4 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) OCI
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior SQL Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior SQL Server Developer
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Developer
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Support Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Applications Support
4 3 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) DBA
5 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (13.33%) SQL DBA
6 1 (6.67%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Compliance Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Database Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) JPA
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) ODBC
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) AIX
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Solaris
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Analytics
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (26.67%) Service Management
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Dataiku
3 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.67%) Meraki
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) VMware