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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 64 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 -13
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 26 13 28
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.44% 1.72% 3.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.87% 10.08% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 15
10th Percentile £368 £374 £400
25th Percentile £413 £396 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £734 £603 £588
90th Percentile £736 £763 £600
Scotland median daily rate £455 £440 £525
% change year-on-year +3.53% -16.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.71 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £26.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 219 129 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 29.01% 17.09% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 84 125
10th Percentile £313 £348 -
25th Percentile £395 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -11.05% -5.94%
75th Percentile £525 £491 £575
90th Percentile £578 £581 £675
Scotland median daily rate £470 £470 £500
% change year-on-year - -6.00% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £50.25 £17.99 -
25th Percentile £50.63 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.99% - -
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.75 £24.49 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +155.23% +0.46% -15.22%

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 10 December 2025.

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 9 (34.62%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) Azure
3 10 (38.46%) GitHub
3 10 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle Database
2 6 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (11.54%) Power BI
5 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 2 (7.69%) Metadata
5 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.85%) GIS
6 1 (3.85%) MySQL
6 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) CircleCI
2 7 (26.92%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) JUnit
4 1 (3.85%) NUnit
4 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Architect
2 9 (34.62%) Technical Architect
3 7 (26.92%) Lead
3 7 (26.92%) Lead Architect
3 7 (26.92%) Technical Leader
4 5 (19.23%) Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) SQL Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
1 2 (7.69%) HTML
1 2 (7.69%) Node.js
1 2 (7.69%) REST
1 2 (7.69%) RESTful
1 2 (7.69%) SOAP
1 2 (7.69%) Spring
1 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.85%) jQuery
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) Spring Batch
2 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Unix
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (30.77%) Domain-Driven Design
3 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 8 (30.77%) Strategic Roadmap
3 8 (30.77%) TDD
4 6 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (19.23%) Case Management
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) IT Strategy
5 5 (19.23%) Line Management
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
7 3 (11.54%) ETL
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) TypeScript
3 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
1 12 (46.15%) Terraform
2 9 (34.62%) Grafana
2 9 (34.62%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) SAP