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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 25 119
Rank change year-on-year -24 +94 -33
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 15 24 124
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.59% 5.73% 3.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.06% 30.00% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9 19 95
10th Percentile £45,560 £33,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.83% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £65,000
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +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 68 80 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.19% 19.09% 38.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28 39 192
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £79,063 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £73,500
Scotland median annual salary £51,750 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -5.91% +2.80% -10.83%

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 April 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 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
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 6 (40.00%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Billing
6 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Support Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 3 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) DBA
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior SQL Server Developer
4 2 (13.33%) SQL DBA
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Commercial Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Compliance Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Insight Manager
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 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (13.33%) 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 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Service Management
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) ITSM
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Data Security
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Open Source
5 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
5 2 (13.33%) Visual Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
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