SQL Server Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 83 52
Rank change year-on-year -39 -31 -32
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 183 158 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.66% 3.67% 5.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.16% 19.24% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 148 124 245
10th Percentile £35,500 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,453 £82,500 £72,650
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,801 821 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.16% 19.06% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 454 467 594
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,375 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 June 2024. 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
Glasgow -52 104 £50,000 +8.11% 10
Edinburgh -2 35 £62,500 +4.17% 19
Aberdeen +6 25 £53,750 +26.47% 8
Dundee - 9 £47,500 -
Falkirk - 3 £50,000 - 1
Stirling - 3 £50,000 - 1
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £57,500 -
Fife -11 1 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 1 £29,000 - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
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 15 (8.20%) IIS
2 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.37%) Apache
4 5 (2.73%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.19%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.55%) SAS
7 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (2.73%) PlanetPress Connect
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.55%) Maximo
3 1 (0.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 103 (56.28%) Azure
2 45 (24.59%) AWS
3 30 (16.39%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.38%) GCP
5 18 (9.84%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (9.84%) IaaS
6 17 (9.29%) PaaS
7 9 (4.92%) SaaS
8 7 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.83%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.83%) Serverless
9 6 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.19%) OCI
11 3 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.64%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.09%) Fivetran
13 1 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.66%) WAN
2 18 (9.84%) Firewall
3 14 (7.65%) VPN
4 13 (7.10%) SD-WAN
5 10 (5.46%) Broadband
6 9 (4.92%) Internet
7 2 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.09%) Wireless
8 1 (0.55%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.39%) Power BI
2 25 (13.66%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (12.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 22 (12.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (11.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (9.29%) MySQL
6 15 (8.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (6.01%) Big Data
7 11 (6.01%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (6.01%) MongoDB
7 11 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (6.01%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.46%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.83%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.28%) OLAP
10 6 (3.28%) Redis
11 5 (2.73%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.73%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 26 (14.21%) Git
2 10 (5.46%) Jasmine
2 10 (5.46%) Karma Test Runner
3 9 (4.92%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.28%) Moq
5 5 (2.73%) JIRA
5 5 (2.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.09%) webpack
7 1 (0.55%) GitLab
7 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.55%) Vite
General
1 42 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.22%) Finance
3 23 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (9.29%) Law
5 16 (8.74%) Banking
6 15 (8.20%) Private Banking
7 11 (6.01%) Manufacturing
8 9 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Games
10 3 (1.64%) Legal
11 2 (1.09%) Police
11 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.09%) Retail
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (28.96%) Developer
2 29 (15.85%) DBA
3 22 (12.02%) .NET Developer
3 22 (12.02%) Senior
4 21 (11.48%) SQL DBA
5 18 (9.84%) Database Engineer
6 16 (8.74%) Software Developer
6 16 (8.74%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (8.20%) Data Engineer
8 13 (7.10%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Administrator
10 9 (4.92%) Analyst
11 8 (4.37%) Lead
12 6 (3.28%) Applications Support
12 6 (3.28%) Applications Support Analyst
12 6 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.28%) Social Media Developer
12 6 (3.28%) Support Analyst
12 6 (3.28%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (30.05%) .NET
2 45 (24.59%) AngularJS
3 40 (21.86%) ASP.NET
4 35 (19.13%) ASP.NET MVC
5 30 (16.39%) .NET Framework
6 29 (15.85%) ASP.NET Web API
7 27 (14.75%) Entity Framework
8 26 (14.21%) .NET Core
8 26 (14.21%) CSS
8 26 (14.21%) HTML
9 15 (8.20%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 15 (8.20%) jQuery
9 15 (8.20%) Vue
10 13 (7.10%) Node.js
10 13 (7.10%) REST
10 13 (7.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 11 (6.01%) React
11 11 (6.01%) Sass
12 10 (5.46%) OpenAPI
12 10 (5.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.75%) Public Cloud
2 15 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.10%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.10%) Replication
4 12 (6.56%) Clustering
5 10 (5.46%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.83%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.28%) BBC
8 6 (3.28%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.28%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (3.28%) Social Media
9 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.19%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.94%) Windows
2 28 (15.30%) Linux
3 26 (14.21%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.46%) VMS
5 4 (2.19%) AIX
6 3 (1.64%) Unix
6 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.09%) CentOS
7 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (25.14%) Agile
2 38 (20.77%) MVC
3 34 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (17.49%) Mentoring
5 29 (15.85%) DevOps
6 26 (14.21%) Disaster Recovery
7 24 (13.11%) OO
7 24 (13.11%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (12.57%) Full Stack Development
8 23 (12.57%) High Availability
9 22 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (12.02%) ETL
9 22 (12.02%) Software Engineering
10 19 (10.38%) Microservices
11 18 (9.84%) Computer Science
12 16 (8.74%) CI/CD
12 16 (8.74%) ERP
13 15 (8.20%) Investment Management
13 15 (8.20%) Project Delivery
13 15 (8.20%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (49.18%) SQL
2 57 (31.15%) C#
3 50 (27.32%) JavaScript
4 49 (26.78%) T-SQL
5 27 (14.75%) Java
6 16 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.10%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.46%) Bash
8 10 (5.46%) C
9 9 (4.92%) Python
10 6 (3.28%) PHP
10 6 (3.28%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.73%) C++
11 5 (2.73%) VB
11 5 (2.73%) VBA
12 3 (1.64%) R
13 1 (0.55%) Scala
13 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.55%) VB6
Qualifications
1 31 (16.94%) Degree
2 16 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (7.65%) Security Cleared
5 13 (7.10%) CCNA
5 13 (7.10%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.73%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.19%) OCP
7 4 (2.19%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (2.19%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.64%) HND
9 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.09%) OCA
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.46%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.92%) WAI
3 5 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.09%) QA
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (13.66%) VMware NSX
2 21 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.10%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (4.92%) Active Directory
5 7 (3.83%) Docker
6 4 (2.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (11.48%) Terraform
2 20 (10.93%) Ansible
3 13 (7.10%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.28%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.73%) Grafana
5 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 89 (48.63%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.58%) VMware
3 15 (8.20%) Oracle
4 14 (7.65%) NetApp
5 13 (7.10%) Cisco
6 11 (6.01%) Google
7 6 (3.28%) Apple
7 6 (3.28%) Facebook
7 6 (3.28%) Sony
7 6 (3.28%) Yahoo!
8 5 (2.73%) FNZ
9 4 (2.19%) Dell
9 4 (2.19%) HP
10 3 (1.64%) Aderant
10 3 (1.64%) iManage
11 2 (1.09%) Citrix
11 2 (1.09%) Databricks
12 1 (0.55%) Darktrace
12 1 (0.55%) SAP
12 1 (0.55%) Teradata