SQL Jobs in Scotland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,496 648 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.28% 13.68% 14.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.51% 31.46% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 328 354 500
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,050 £32,450
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £50,869
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +22.86% +7.09%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £62,813
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,786 2,060 2,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.39% 43.49% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,162 1,553
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +1 1,210 £53,000 +0.95% 40
Edinburgh -12 148 £66,367 -4.44% 51
Aberdeen +18 41 £43,750 -7.89% 11
Dundee -2 16 £50,000 +13.16% 1
Renfrewshire +5 11 £52,500 +28.51% 1
Fife -3 11 £37,800 -11.06% 4
North Lanarkshire -1 10 £26,000 -30.67%
West Lothian +3 8 £37,500 -31.82% 2
Aberdeenshire +11 6 £43,750 -32.69% 7
Stirling -2 6 £47,750 +46.92% 4
Scottish Borders +3 5 - -
Lanarkshire -13 5 £42,500 -39.29% 10
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £42,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire +2 3 £29,000 - 1
West Dunbartonshire 0 2 - -
Highlands - 2 £45,500 -
Falkirk - 2 £55,000 - 4
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 429 (28.68%) Apache Spark
2 106 (7.09%) Apache
3 103 (6.89%) FileNet
4 31 (2.07%) Cloud Foundry
5 23 (1.54%) IIS
6 21 (1.40%) GemFire
7 16 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (1.00%) SharePoint
9 14 (0.94%) Confluence
10 13 (0.87%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.47%) Captiva
12 6 (0.40%) SAS
13 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
2 11 (0.74%) Endur
3 6 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.27%) Sonata
6 1 (0.067%) Maximo
6 1 (0.067%) Primavera
6 1 (0.067%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.067%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 545 (36.43%) AWS
2 166 (11.10%) Azure
3 107 (7.15%) Power Platform
4 100 (6.68%) Amazon S3
5 75 (5.01%) Cloud Computing
6 70 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (4.21%) GitHub
8 57 (3.81%) Serverless
9 55 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (3.68%) GCP
10 54 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (3.41%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (1.60%) SaaS
14 21 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (1.00%) BlazeMeter
17 13 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
18 12 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.40%) WAN
2 18 (1.20%) DSL
3 17 (1.14%) Kerberos
4 13 (0.87%) Modbus
4 13 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.67%) Broadband
6 8 (0.53%) HTTP
6 8 (0.53%) MQTT
7 6 (0.40%) Firewall
8 4 (0.27%) Internet
8 4 (0.27%) Wireless
9 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.067%) MPLS
10 1 (0.067%) SDH
10 1 (0.067%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 689 (46.06%) NoSQL
2 380 (25.40%) Big Data
3 219 (14.64%) Hadoop
4 136 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 132 (8.82%) Relational Database
6 117 (7.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 105 (7.02%) MongoDB
8 104 (6.95%) Power BI
9 102 (6.82%) Apache Hive
9 102 (6.82%) HBase
10 101 (6.75%) SQL Server
11 52 (3.48%) Electronic Patient Records
12 42 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
13 40 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (2.54%) CockroachDB
14 38 (2.54%) Tableau
15 32 (2.14%) DB2
15 32 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
16 30 (2.01%) Oracle Database
17 29 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 167 (11.16%) Jenkins
2 149 (9.96%) Git
3 131 (8.76%) JUnit
4 86 (5.75%) Bitbucket Server
5 53 (3.54%) JIRA
6 46 (3.07%) Mockito
7 45 (3.01%) Jasmine
8 42 (2.81%) Maven
9 31 (2.07%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.94%) Visual Studio
11 27 (1.80%) Cucumber
12 21 (1.40%) Jaeger
13 19 (1.27%) GitLab
14 15 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
15 14 (0.94%) Bitbucket
16 13 (0.87%) Selenium
17 10 (0.67%) IBM UrbanCode
17 10 (0.67%) JMeter
18 9 (0.60%) Gradle
19 6 (0.40%) MSTest
General
1 1,173 (78.41%) Finance
2 1,087 (72.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,050 (70.19%) Law
4 518 (34.63%) Marketing
5 428 (28.61%) Legal
6 163 (10.90%) Influencing Skills
7 161 (10.76%) Banking
8 148 (9.89%) Financial Institution
9 142 (9.49%) Social Skills
10 110 (7.35%) Investment Banking
11 82 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
12 31 (2.07%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.47%) Prime Brokerage
14 19 (1.27%) Publishing
15 13 (0.87%) Retail
16 11 (0.74%) Back Office
17 10 (0.67%) Games
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 959 (64.10%) Software Engineer
2 465 (31.08%) Java Engineer
3 463 (30.95%) Java Software Engineer
4 321 (21.46%) Lead
5 302 (20.19%) Lead Software Engineer
6 291 (19.45%) Big Data Engineer
6 291 (19.45%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 213 (14.24%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (14.24%) AWS Software Engineer
8 209 (13.97%) Scala Engineer
8 209 (13.97%) Scala Software Engineer
9 206 (13.77%) Senior
10 204 (13.64%) Full Stack Engineer
11 203 (13.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 190 (12.70%) Lead Java Engineer
13 146 (9.76%) Developer
14 129 (8.62%) Data Engineer
15 125 (8.36%) Engineering Manager
16 119 (7.95%) Java Scala Software Engineer
17 117 (7.82%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (27.27%) Spring
2 268 (17.91%) Kafka
3 254 (16.98%) React
4 224 (14.97%) AngularJS
5 198 (13.24%) Spring Boot
6 183 (12.23%) J2EE
7 169 (11.30%) CSS
7 169 (11.30%) HTML
8 138 (9.22%) Hibernate
9 125 (8.36%) GraphQL
10 123 (8.22%) REST
11 110 (7.35%) JMS
12 96 (6.42%) Spring Integration
13 90 (6.02%) JSON
14 80 (5.35%) Node.js
15 75 (5.01%) jQuery
16 73 (4.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 67 (4.48%) Pandas
18 63 (4.21%) Web Services
19 59 (3.94%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 394 (26.34%) Algorithms
2 379 (25.33%) Cloud Native
3 86 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 85 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 67 (4.48%) Market Risk
6 53 (3.54%) Reference Data
7 43 (2.87%) Legacy Code
8 40 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 40 (2.67%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.94%) Private Cloud
11 24 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.40%) Clustering
12 21 (1.40%) Replication
13 19 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.20%) IoT
15 15 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
16 13 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
18 8 (0.53%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 158 (10.56%) Unix
2 145 (9.69%) Linux
3 51 (3.41%) Windows
4 25 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.74%) VMS
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) CentOS
8 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,149 (76.80%) Agile
2 1,131 (75.60%) Software Engineering
3 998 (66.71%) SDLC
4 948 (63.37%) CI/CD
5 757 (50.60%) Operational Stability
6 610 (40.78%) Machine Learning
7 607 (40.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 485 (32.42%) Community of Practice
9 456 (30.48%) Risk Management
10 438 (29.28%) Visualisation
11 424 (28.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 326 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
13 289 (19.32%) Microservices
14 282 (18.85%) Continuous Delivery
15 275 (18.38%) Performance Tuning
16 246 (16.44%) Full Stack Development
17 232 (15.51%) Decision-Making
18 166 (11.10%) Computer Science
18 166 (11.10%) Test Automation
19 164 (10.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 993 (66.38%) Java
2 494 (33.02%) Python
3 282 (18.85%) Scala
4 185 (12.37%) JavaScript
5 182 (12.17%) PL/SQL
6 103 (6.89%) TypeScript
7 79 (5.28%) C#
8 72 (4.81%) T-SQL
9 43 (2.87%) Groovy
10 27 (1.80%) C++
11 16 (1.07%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.94%) Bash
13 12 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.53%) VBA
16 6 (0.40%) Go
16 6 (0.40%) R
17 4 (0.27%) C
17 4 (0.27%) PHP
17 4 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 104 (6.95%) Degree
2 58 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (2.21%) Master's Degree
4 32 (2.14%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.07%) SC Cleared
7 13 (0.87%) CISA
8 12 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.27%) ISEB
9 4 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.20%) HND
10 3 (0.20%) PhD
11 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.13%) MCSE
11 2 (0.13%) OCP
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.067%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.067%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.21%) PMO
2 25 (1.67%) QA
3 22 (1.47%) SLA
4 15 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.87%) ITGC
6 8 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.067%) CRD IV
System Software
1 102 (6.82%) HDFS
2 43 (2.87%) Docker
3 21 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 14 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.74%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 263 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 137 (9.16%) Terraform
3 54 (3.61%) Grafana
4 26 (1.74%) ITRS Geneos
4 26 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 22 (1.47%) Kibana
6 21 (1.40%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.40%) Zipkin
7 13 (0.87%) Ansible
8 7 (0.47%) Graphite
9 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.20%) Puppet
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.13%) Rancher
12 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.067%) Nagios
12 1 (0.067%) SCCM
12 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 393 (26.27%) Oracle
2 192 (12.83%) Databricks
3 108 (7.22%) Microsoft
4 87 (5.82%) Informatica
5 72 (4.81%) Cloudera
6 54 (3.61%) Splunk
7 44 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.94%) Google
8 29 (1.94%) SAP
9 27 (1.80%) VMware
10 23 (1.54%) Sybase
11 21 (1.40%) Atlassian
12 20 (1.34%) IBM
13 18 (1.20%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.20%) Cognos
14 14 (0.94%) Sage
15 11 (0.74%) OpenLink
16 9 (0.60%) TOWER Software
17 8 (0.53%) NVIDIA
18 7 (0.47%) Kofax