SQL Server Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 114 82
Rank change year-on-year +43 -32 -40
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 87 206 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.04% 3.06% 3.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.51% 10.56% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 57 162 126
10th Percentile £36,150 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +4.40%
75th Percentile £68,114 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,314 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +6.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 355 1,951 865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.40% 28.96% 18.30%
Number of salaries quoted 206 486 486
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,833 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,300 £76,875 £89,852
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Scotland

SQL Server
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +17 35 £61,934 -0.91% 18
Glasgow +100 23 £44,500 -11.00% 22
Lanarkshire - 13 £48,343 - 2
Renfrewshire -11 4 £48,500 -7.62% 10
West Lothian - 3 £37,500 -
Fife -3 2 £41,250 -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 21 (24.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (58.62%) Azure
2 37 (42.53%) AWS
3 22 (25.29%) GCP
4 13 (14.94%) Power Platform
5 12 (13.79%) SaaS
6 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.60%) GitHub
9 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.30%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.30%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.30%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Firewall
1 1 (1.15%) WAN
1 1 (1.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.54%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (14.94%) Power BI
3 9 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 8 (9.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (8.05%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.60%) Tableau
7 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.45%) MySQL
7 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.15%) Crystal Enterprise
9 1 (1.15%) OLAP
9 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (27.59%) GitLab
2 23 (26.44%) SonarQube
3 22 (25.29%) JIRA
4 21 (24.14%) Bitbucket
4 21 (24.14%) Cucumber
4 21 (24.14%) Maven
4 21 (24.14%) Selenium
4 21 (24.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
6 6 (6.90%) Git
7 4 (4.60%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (3.45%) Fiddler
8 3 (3.45%) Postman
8 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
8 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.30%) Checkstyle
10 1 (1.15%) MSTest
10 1 (1.15%) NUnit
General
1 39 (44.83%) Finance
2 26 (29.89%) Banking
3 24 (27.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
5 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Law
6 4 (4.60%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.30%) Electronics
7 2 (2.30%) Local Government
7 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Developer
2 24 (27.59%) Software Engineer
3 11 (12.64%) Lead
4 9 (10.34%) Senior
5 8 (9.20%) Team Leader
6 7 (8.05%) .NET Developer
6 7 (8.05%) DBA
6 7 (8.05%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Software Team Leader
7 5 (5.75%) SQL DBA
7 5 (5.75%) SQL Server DBA
8 4 (4.60%) Database Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Database Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Applications Support
9 3 (3.45%) Database Team Leader
9 3 (3.45%) Development Team Leader
10 2 (2.30%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (40.23%) React
2 34 (39.08%) CSS
2 34 (39.08%) HTML
3 28 (32.18%) Kafka
4 26 (29.89%) Spring Boot
5 22 (25.29%) Hibernate
5 22 (25.29%) Redux
5 22 (25.29%) Spring
6 21 (24.14%) JPA
7 20 (22.99%) .NET
8 12 (13.79%) RESTful
9 9 (10.34%) .NET Core
10 8 (9.20%) .NET Framework
10 8 (9.20%) ASP.NET
10 8 (9.20%) Entity Framework
11 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
11 7 (8.05%) Web Services
12 6 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (6.90%) HTML5
13 5 (5.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.44%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (25.29%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.05%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) AIX
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.28%) Agile
2 38 (43.68%) DevOps
3 36 (41.38%) Microservices
4 32 (36.78%) CI/CD
5 30 (34.48%) Software Engineering
6 28 (32.18%) Test Automation
7 27 (31.03%) TDD
8 26 (29.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 26 (29.89%) SDLC
9 24 (27.59%) Containerisation
10 23 (26.44%) Clean Code
11 22 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (25.29%) Front End Development
11 22 (25.29%) Performance Optimisation
11 22 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
14 13 (14.94%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (14.94%) Coaching
15 10 (11.49%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.57%) SQL
2 34 (39.08%) JavaScript
3 32 (36.78%) Java
4 20 (22.99%) C#
5 12 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.90%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.75%) Scala
8 4 (4.60%) Python
9 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.30%) Elixir
10 2 (2.30%) F#
10 2 (2.30%) Go
10 2 (2.30%) Ruby
11 1 (1.15%) C
11 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (8.05%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (2.30%) ACCA
4 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.29%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 34 (39.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (36.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) Grafana
3 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (24.14%) Solace
2 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
3 13 (14.94%) Oracle
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco
4 1 (1.15%) Databricks
4 1 (1.15%) Epicor
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.15%) SonicWALL