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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 63 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 17 16 28
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.29% 2.01% 3.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.44% 9.04% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 18
10th Percentile £291 £372 £413
25th Percentile £344 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £496 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.34% -4.62% +18.32%
75th Percentile £509 £567 £600
90th Percentile £575 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £455 £498 £525
% change year-on-year -8.63% -5.14% +10.53%
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 180 177 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.23% 22.21% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 112 137
10th Percentile £313 £288 £303
25th Percentile £335 £372 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -3.23% -7.00%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £533
90th Percentile £570 £589 £645
Scotland median daily rate £425 £471 £475
% change year-on-year -9.67% -0.95% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.50 £20.16 -
25th Percentile £38.75 £21.01 £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £23.05 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.42% -56.10% +50.00%
75th Percentile £46.25 £25.71 £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 £26.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
% change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%

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 1 May 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Power Platform
2 5 (29.41%) Snowflake
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Relational Database
2 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (47.06%) Power BI
3 6 (35.29%) MySQL
4 5 (29.41%) Tableau
5 2 (11.76%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.88%) Metadata
6 1 (5.88%) Power Query
6 1 (5.88%) QlikView
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) NUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Site Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) HTML Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
1 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Batch
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
1 10 (58.82%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (47.06%) Observability
2 8 (47.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) Analytics
3 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
3 7 (41.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) AI
4 6 (35.29%) Generative AI
4 6 (35.29%) Incident Management
4 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Software Delivery
4 6 (35.29%) Validation
5 5 (29.41%) Backlog Refinement
5 5 (29.41%) Change Management
5 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (29.41%) ITSM
5 5 (29.41%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 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 7 (41.18%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk