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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 18 95
Rank change year-on-year -29 +77 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 11 43 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.40% 8.40% 4.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.44% 36.75% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 83
10th Percentile £42,450 £33,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £49,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - £53,200 £67,500
Scotland median annual salary £46,250 £48,343 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.33% -7.92% -

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 45 117 974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.75% 22.85% 37.71%
Number of salaries quoted 14 48 159
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,438 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £62,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £74,600
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -4.35%

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 9 March 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 4 (36.36%) WebSphere
1 4 (36.36%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
3 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Applications Support
2 4 (36.36%) Applications Support Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Application Support Team Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Business Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Commercial Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Compliance Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Insight Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Support Team Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) JPA
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) ITSM
3 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Visual Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Dataiku
1 1 (9.09%) Meraki
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft