SQL Jobs in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 151 340 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.94% 16.50% 13.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.34% 37.61% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 124 204 244
10th Percentile £44,125 £39,000 £34,650
25th Percentile £50,686 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,634 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +28.83% +10.53%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £85,000 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +10.53%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 596 904 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.24% 43.88% 53.64%
Number of salaries quoted 464 578 839
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,829 £38,950
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +14.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (4.64%) Captiva
1 7 (4.64%) FileNet
1 7 (4.64%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.65%) SAS
3 3 (1.99%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (8.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (7.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 57 (37.75%) Azure
2 34 (22.52%) GCP
3 28 (18.54%) Power Platform
4 21 (13.91%) AWS
5 15 (9.93%) GitHub
6 14 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.96%) SaaS
8 6 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.97%) Serverless
9 5 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.31%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.65%) IBM Cloud
11 3 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.99%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.32%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.32%) Vertex AI
13 1 (0.66%) Azure App Service
13 1 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.65%) Firewall
2 3 (1.99%) Internet
2 3 (1.99%) Wireless
3 2 (1.32%) Broadband
4 1 (0.66%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.88%) Power BI
2 21 (13.91%) NoSQL
3 17 (11.26%) Oracle Database
4 15 (9.93%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.27%) Tableau
6 11 (7.28%) DB2
7 9 (5.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (5.96%) MongoDB
7 9 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.64%) Oracle Database 11g
9 6 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.31%) Big Data
10 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (12.58%) Git
2 17 (11.26%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.26%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (7.95%) JIRA
4 10 (6.62%) Maven
4 10 (6.62%) Selenium
5 9 (5.96%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.32%) JUnit
6 2 (1.32%) Mockito
6 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.66%) JMeter
7 1 (0.66%) Postman
7 1 (0.66%) Vite
7 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 85 (56.29%) Finance
2 42 (27.81%) Banking
2 42 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.28%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.64%) Retail Banking
6 6 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.99%) Retail
8 2 (1.32%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (38.41%) Senior
2 31 (20.53%) Software Engineer
3 25 (16.56%) Developer
4 18 (11.92%) Analyst
5 16 (10.60%) Data Analyst
6 15 (9.93%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.27%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (6.62%) IT Manager
8 10 (6.62%) Java Developer
8 10 (6.62%) Lead
9 9 (5.96%) Audit Manager
9 9 (5.96%) Data Scientist
9 9 (5.96%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Data Manager
10 8 (5.30%) Data Science Manager
10 8 (5.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Senior Data Analyst
10 8 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Database Developer
11 7 (4.64%) FileNet Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.92%) .NET
1 18 (11.92%) Spring
1 18 (11.92%) Spring Boot
2 15 (9.93%) JSON
2 15 (9.93%) REST
3 13 (8.61%) AngularJS
3 13 (8.61%) CSS
3 13 (8.61%) HTML
3 13 (8.61%) React
4 12 (7.95%) Kafka
5 9 (5.96%) Web Services
6 8 (5.30%) .NET Core
6 8 (5.30%) Pandas
7 7 (4.64%) ASP.NET
7 7 (4.64%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (4.64%) RESTful
8 6 (3.97%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (3.97%) Playwright
8 6 (3.97%) Vue
8 6 (3.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.93%) Private Cloud
2 8 (5.30%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.64%) DataPower
3 7 (4.64%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.65%) IoT
7 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.66%) CCTV
8 1 (0.66%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.50%) Linux
2 22 (14.57%) Windows
3 19 (12.58%) Unix
4 18 (11.92%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.99%) CentOS
6 3 (1.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (41.06%) Agile
2 50 (33.11%) DevOps
3 42 (27.81%) Analytics
3 42 (27.81%) Software Engineering
4 30 (19.87%) Mentoring
5 25 (16.56%) Data Analytics
5 25 (16.56%) Data Science
6 24 (15.89%) Machine Learning
7 23 (15.23%) Microservices
8 21 (13.91%) Coaching
8 21 (13.91%) Test Automation
9 17 (11.26%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (11.26%) CI/CD
10 16 (10.60%) Migration
11 15 (9.93%) Project Management
12 14 (9.27%) Natural Language Processing
12 14 (9.27%) Visualisation
13 13 (8.61%) Change Management
14 12 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (7.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.42%) Python
2 43 (28.48%) Java
3 20 (13.25%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.26%) C#
5 11 (7.28%) PL/SQL
6 9 (5.96%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.30%) Bash
8 7 (4.64%) Groovy
9 5 (3.31%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.65%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.99%) VBA
12 2 (1.32%) C++
12 2 (1.32%) R
12 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.66%) Bicep
13 1 (0.66%) Delphi
13 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (13.25%) Degree
2 11 (7.28%) CISA
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.66%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.28%) ITGC
1 11 (7.28%) PMO
2 7 (4.64%) GDPR
3 6 (3.97%) QA
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) CRD IV
System Software
1 17 (11.26%) Docker
2 5 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (16.56%) Kubernetes
2 18 (11.92%) Terraform
3 12 (7.95%) Ansible
4 4 (2.65%) Grafana
4 4 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.99%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.32%) Istio
6 2 (1.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (23.84%) Oracle
2 24 (15.89%) Google
3 20 (13.25%) IBM
4 19 (12.58%) Microsoft
5 18 (11.92%) SAP
6 11 (7.28%) Sage
7 7 (4.64%) Kofax
7 7 (4.64%) Pega
7 7 (4.64%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.65%) Databricks
8 4 (2.65%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.65%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.66%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.66%) VMware