SQL Server Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 57 48
Rank change year-on-year -13 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 17 12 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.19% 1.58% 3.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.14% 8.16% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 30
10th Percentile £313 £413 £363
25th Percentile £375 £463 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +10.17% -6.37%
75th Percentile £571 £675 £525
90th Percentile £589 - £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475

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 186 147 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.97% 19.32% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 113 121
10th Percentile £288 £293 £375
25th Percentile £375 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -13.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £580
90th Percentile £589 £575 £650
Scotland median daily rate £474 £450 £497
% change year-on-year +5.22% -9.40% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £26.17 £22.76 £24.95
25th Percentile £36.05 £27.51 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £36.05 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.59% +2.99% +8.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.21 £66.56
90th Percentile - £50.33 £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £21.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +154.16% -38.17% +34.62%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Glasgow

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) OCI
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) IaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DHCP
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) DB2
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Back Office
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Database Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Database Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Designer
5 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Designer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) CSS
1 2 (11.76%) FastAPI
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
1 2 (11.76%) J2EE
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) pytest
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) Express.js
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
1 3 (17.65%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (23.53%) AIX
3 4 (23.53%) Solaris
4 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) High Availability
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
2 5 (29.41%) Problem Management
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Database Tuning
3 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (23.53%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) SDLC
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
5 2 (11.76%) ETL
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Data Guard
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Flashback
3 3 (17.65%) Terraform
4 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.76%) Podman
4 2 (11.76%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Oracle
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
4 3 (17.65%) Dell
4 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
5 2 (11.76%) Netskope
5 2 (11.76%) Proofpoint
5 2 (11.76%) Splunk
5 2 (11.76%) Symantec
5 2 (11.76%) VMware
6 1 (5.88%) Databricks
6 1 (5.88%) Greenplum
6 1 (5.88%) IBM
6 1 (5.88%) Sybase