SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 67 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 17 10 28
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.56% 1.34% 3.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.30% 6.99% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £358 £385 £430
25th Percentile £422 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £455 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -20.87% +31.43%
75th Percentile £564 £519 £600
90th Percentile £575 £620 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £497 £575
% change year-on-year -9.46% -13.57% +23.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £26.93 -

All Database & BI 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 contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 165 143 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.81% 19.22% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 96 122
10th Percentile £313 £330 £327
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £471
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -7.11% -6.73%
75th Percentile £525 £491 £566
90th Percentile £575 £578 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% -6.00% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +155.23% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.75 £23.05 £20.57
% change year-on-year +33.43% +12.03% -2.05%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Glasgow over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SQL Server

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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Metadata
3 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.88%) GIS
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
2 1 (5.88%) NUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Software Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.88%) HTML Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) SOAP
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.88%) JPA
3 1 (5.88%) jQuery
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Batch
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Unix
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) API Development
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Observability
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (11.76%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) API Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (11.76%) Data Lineage
5 2 (11.76%) Data Privacy
5 2 (11.76%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Python
5 2 (11.76%) Bash
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) SAP