SQL Job Trends in Glasgow

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 58 114 503
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 4.31% 15.53% 25.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.86% 36.42% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 41 30 58
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,250 £37,275
25th Percentile £28,500 £37,500 £39,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £61,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £66,375 £67,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%

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 201 313 1,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.94% 42.64% 57.26%
Number of salaries quoted 124 84 224
10th Percentile £27,800 £36,975 £30,575
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +17.27% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

SQL job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SQL
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Glasgow

SQL
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 (3.45%) Confluence
1 2 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 36 (62.07%) Azure
2 14 (24.14%) Azure AI
2 14 (24.14%) Power Platform
3 13 (22.41%) SaaS
4 10 (17.24%) Entra ID
5 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.62%) AWS
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.17%) GCP
7 3 (5.17%) Serverless
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.45%) OCI
9 1 (1.72%) Datadog
9 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (24.14%) Power BI
3 13 (22.41%) SQL Server
4 9 (15.52%) Tableau
5 6 (10.34%) MongoDB
6 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (5.17%) MySQL
8 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (3.45%) Parquet
9 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.72%) Looker
10 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.72%) Flyway
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Liquibase
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
1 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Law
4 2 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (1.72%) Back Office
5 1 (1.72%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing
5 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Retail
5 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Developer
2 13 (22.41%) Analyst
2 13 (22.41%) Applications Support
3 12 (20.69%) Applications Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Applications Support Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Support Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Data Analyst
4 10 (17.24%) Senior
5 8 (13.79%) Junior
5 8 (13.79%) Junior Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) Junior Data Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 6 (10.34%) .NET Developer
6 6 (10.34%) DBA
6 6 (10.34%) SQL DBA
7 5 (8.62%) Administrator
7 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior SQL Developer
7 5 (8.62%) SQL Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) .NET
2 6 (10.34%) .NET Core
2 6 (10.34%) ASP.NET
2 6 (10.34%) ASP.NET Core
2 6 (10.34%) Blazor
2 6 (10.34%) ML.NET
2 6 (10.34%) React
2 6 (10.34%) RESTful
3 4 (6.90%) PySpark
4 3 (5.17%) XML
4 3 (5.17%) XSLT
5 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.45%) Apache Avro
5 2 (3.45%) JSON
5 2 (3.45%) ODBC
5 2 (3.45%) REST
5 2 (3.45%) Terraform
6 1 (1.72%) Middleware
6 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Client/Server
2 6 (10.34%) BBC
2 6 (10.34%) Social Media
3 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Derivative
5 1 (1.72%) Equities
5 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.72%) AIX
3 1 (1.72%) Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.21%) DevOps
2 15 (25.86%) AI
2 15 (25.86%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (20.69%) Change Management
3 12 (20.69%) ITIL
4 11 (18.97%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (17.24%) Agile
6 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (10.34%) Machine Learning
9 6 (10.34%) Multithreading
9 6 (10.34%) OO
10 5 (8.62%) Analytics
10 5 (8.62%) Data Engineering
10 5 (8.62%) SDLC
11 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (6.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) Python
2 7 (12.07%) C#
2 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.90%) Java
3 4 (6.90%) PL/SQL
4 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.17%) T-SQL
4 3 (5.17%) VB.NET
4 3 (5.17%) XPath
5 2 (3.45%) Bicep
6 1 (1.72%) Bash
6 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.17%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.72%) Grafana
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Flashback
1 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Google
3 6 (10.34%) Apple
3 6 (10.34%) Facebook
3 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 6 (10.34%) Sony
3 6 (10.34%) Yahoo!
4 4 (6.90%) Databricks
5 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) Intapp
6 1 (1.72%) New Relic
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow