SQL Jobs in Glasgow

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL 47 1,208 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.94% 29.91% 12.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.13% 43.99% 26.74%
Number of salaries quoted 15 119 88
10th Percentile £36,550 £31,250 £36,510
25th Percentile £37,250 £40,833 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,875 £64,750 £66,750
90th Percentile £94,000 £77,500 £72,875
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 187 2,746 688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.55% 67.99% 45.06%
Number of salaries quoted 100 348 302
10th Percentile £39,925 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £76,375 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,125
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Glasgow

SQL
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Glasgow.

Salary trend for SQL in Glasgow

SQL
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Glasgow over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Glasgow

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.13%) SAS
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) Azure
2 18 (38.30%) AWS
3 12 (25.53%) Power Platform
4 8 (17.02%) GCP
5 3 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.38%) SaaS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub
6 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.26%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.13%) Dagster
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.13%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DHCP
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) Power BI
2 11 (23.40%) NoSQL
3 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
4 7 (14.89%) MongoDB
5 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
6 5 (10.64%) Big Data
6 5 (10.64%) MySQL
6 5 (10.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (8.51%) DB2
7 4 (8.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (6.38%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (6.38%) Apache Hive
8 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
8 3 (6.38%) Tableau
9 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
9 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (4.26%) HBase
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.77%) Maven
3 5 (10.64%) GitLab
3 5 (10.64%) Gradle
4 4 (8.51%) Git
5 3 (6.38%) JUnit
6 2 (4.26%) Mockito
6 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.13%) ER Studio
7 1 (2.13%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.13%) JIRA
7 1 (2.13%) PyCharm
7 1 (2.13%) Selenium
7 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (55.32%) Finance
2 20 (42.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (38.30%) Law
4 10 (21.28%) Banking
4 10 (21.28%) Marketing
5 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
6 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (8.51%) Legal
8 3 (6.38%) Investment Banking
9 2 (4.26%) Front Office
10 1 (2.13%) Publishing
10 1 (2.13%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Software Engineer
2 17 (36.17%) Developer
3 12 (25.53%) Java Engineer
4 10 (21.28%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (19.15%) Java Developer
6 7 (14.89%) Senior
7 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 5 (10.64%) Analyst
8 5 (10.64%) Lead
8 5 (10.64%) Python Engineer
8 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
9 4 (8.51%) Applications Support
9 4 (8.51%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (8.51%) Python Software Engineer
10 3 (6.38%) Applications Support Analyst
10 3 (6.38%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (6.38%) Software Developer
10 3 (6.38%) SQL Analyst
10 3 (6.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (40.43%) Spring
2 12 (25.53%) Spring Boot
3 11 (23.40%) Kafka
4 7 (14.89%) Hibernate
4 7 (14.89%) JPA
4 7 (14.89%) React
5 6 (12.77%) AngularJS
6 5 (10.64%) REST
6 5 (10.64%) RESTful
7 3 (6.38%) .NET
8 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.26%) CSS
8 2 (4.26%) HTML
8 2 (4.26%) JSON
8 2 (4.26%) PySpark
8 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.26%) Spring MVC
9 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.13%) Memcached
9 1 (2.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Algorithms
2 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Derivative
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.13%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Agile
2 23 (48.94%) Software Engineering
3 21 (44.68%) CI/CD
4 17 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (34.04%) Operational Stability
6 15 (31.91%) SDLC
7 14 (29.79%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (23.40%) Machine Learning
10 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (19.15%) Community of Practice
11 9 (19.15%) DevOps
12 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
12 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
12 8 (17.02%) Microservices
13 7 (14.89%) Visualisation
14 6 (12.77%) Analytics
14 6 (12.77%) Data Analysis
14 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) Java
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.51%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) C
5 3 (6.38%) C++
6 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.26%) Scala
6 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.13%) R
7 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) ACCA
1 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) HDFS
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Grafana
4 2 (4.26%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.13%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Databricks
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle
2 5 (10.64%) Sybase
3 2 (4.26%) Cloudera
3 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) Solace
4 1 (2.13%) VMware