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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 72 45
Rank change year-on-year +16 -27 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 16 11 35
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.22% 1.36% 3.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.74% 6.55% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 20
10th Percentile £358 £389 £424
25th Percentile £422 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £446 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -15.00% +27.25%
75th Percentile £564 £503 £600
90th Percentile £575 £603 £675
Scotland median daily rate £455 £475 £575
% change year-on-year -4.21% -17.39% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 £26.93 -
% change year-on-year +137.70% - -

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 183 168 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.35% 20.84% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 115 119
10th Percentile £313 £305 £313
25th Percentile £358 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -7.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £538
90th Percentile £570 £589 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £482
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £19.59 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.95% -62.69% +50.00%
75th Percentile £46.25 £23.67 £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 £26.12 -
Scotland median hourly rate £51.25 £23.05 £21.64
% change year-on-year +122.39% +6.49% -27.87%

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 23 February 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Relational Database
2 4 (25.00%) Power BI
3 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (12.50%) Metadata
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Power Query
5 1 (6.25%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) NUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) HTML Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) jQuery
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps
1 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) API Development
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) ETL
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Observability
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Conceptual Models
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) Data Lineage
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk