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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 64 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 24 9 20
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.21% 1.27% 2.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.32% 7.09% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 15
10th Percentile £344 £393 £378
25th Percentile £403 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -10.53% +2.15%
75th Percentile £734 £688 £619
90th Percentile £737 £800 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £433 £525
% change year-on-year +9.70% -17.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.92 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £16.92 -

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 212 127 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.34% 17.86% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 83 112
10th Percentile £313 £323 -
25th Percentile £381 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £562
90th Percentile £625 £523 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.20% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - £17.72 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +180.76% +0.46% -7.14%

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 26 October 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 (37.50%) WebLogic
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
1 10 (41.67%) GitHub
1 10 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle Database
2 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) DB2
5 1 (4.17%) GIS
5 1 (4.17%) Metadata
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) Power BI
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) CircleCI
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Architect
2 9 (37.50%) Technical Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Lead
3 7 (29.17%) Lead Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Technical Leader
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL Developer
6 2 (8.33%) PowerShell Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
1 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.33%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) J2EE
3 1 (4.17%) JPA
3 1 (4.17%) jQuery
3 1 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (37.50%) TDD
3 8 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 8 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 8 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Case Management
5 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
5 5 (20.83%) Line Management
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 3 (12.50%) ETL
7 3 (12.50%) Scrum
7 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.33%) Python
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 10 (41.67%) Terraform
2 9 (37.50%) Grafana
2 9 (37.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Greenplum
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) SAP