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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,502 649 818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.30% 13.75% 14.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.51% 31.60% 31.33%
Number of salaries quoted 330 352 501
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,850 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +24.41% +5.76%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £62,500
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 3,802 2,054 2,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.45% 43.52% 45.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 1,156 1,556
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 29 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 29 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 1,217 £53,000 +0.95% 42
Edinburgh -12 147 £66,367 -4.44% 54
Aberdeen +15 41 £43,750 -7.89% 11
Dundee -3 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% 3
Aberdeenshire +12 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% 9
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £42,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire +2 3 £29,000 -
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
1 430 (28.63%) Apache Spark
2 107 (7.12%) Apache
3 105 (6.99%) FileNet
4 31 (2.06%) Cloud Foundry
5 23 (1.53%) IIS
6 21 (1.40%) GemFire
7 16 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (1.00%) SharePoint
9 14 (0.93%) 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 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
2 11 (0.73%) 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
1 547 (36.42%) AWS
2 167 (11.12%) Azure
3 108 (7.19%) Power Platform
4 102 (6.79%) Amazon S3
5 76 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
6 70 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (4.26%) GitHub
8 57 (3.79%) GCP
8 57 (3.79%) Serverless
9 55 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (1.60%) SaaS
14 21 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (1.26%) 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 (1.13%) 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
1 692 (46.07%) NoSQL
2 381 (25.37%) Big Data
3 219 (14.58%) Hadoop
4 138 (9.19%) Elasticsearch
5 132 (8.79%) Relational Database
6 119 (7.92%) Apache Cassandra
7 106 (7.06%) MongoDB
8 105 (6.99%) Power BI
9 103 (6.86%) SQL Server
10 102 (6.79%) Apache Hive
10 102 (6.79%) HBase
11 52 (3.46%) Electronic Patient Records
12 42 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
13 40 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (2.53%) CockroachDB
14 38 (2.53%) Tableau
15 33 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
16 31 (2.06%) DB2
16 31 (2.06%) Oracle Database
17 29 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 167 (11.12%) Jenkins
2 149 (9.92%) Git
3 133 (8.85%) JUnit
4 86 (5.73%) Bitbucket Server
5 52 (3.46%) JIRA
6 47 (3.13%) Mockito
7 46 (3.06%) Jasmine
8 42 (2.80%) Maven
9 31 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.93%) Visual Studio
11 26 (1.73%) Cucumber
12 21 (1.40%) Jaeger
13 19 (1.26%) GitLab
14 16 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
15 14 (0.93%) Bitbucket
16 12 (0.80%) Selenium
17 10 (0.67%) JMeter
18 9 (0.60%) Gradle
18 9 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
19 6 (0.40%) MSTest
General
1 1,177 (78.36%) Finance
2 1,094 (72.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,055 (70.24%) Law
4 520 (34.62%) Marketing
5 430 (28.63%) Legal
6 164 (10.92%) Influencing Skills
7 160 (10.65%) Banking
8 149 (9.92%) Financial Institution
9 141 (9.39%) Social Skills
10 110 (7.32%) Investment Banking
11 82 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
12 30 (2.00%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.46%) Prime Brokerage
14 19 (1.26%) Publishing
15 13 (0.87%) Retail
16 11 (0.73%) Back Office
17 10 (0.67%) Games
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 964 (64.18%) Software Engineer
2 469 (31.23%) Java Engineer
3 467 (31.09%) Java Software Engineer
4 323 (21.50%) Lead
5 303 (20.17%) Lead Software Engineer
6 291 (19.37%) Big Data Engineer
6 291 (19.37%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 213 (14.18%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (14.18%) AWS Software Engineer
8 209 (13.91%) Scala Engineer
8 209 (13.91%) Scala Software Engineer
9 207 (13.78%) Full Stack Engineer
10 206 (13.72%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 205 (13.65%) Senior
12 190 (12.65%) Lead Java Engineer
13 147 (9.79%) Developer
14 130 (8.66%) Data Engineer
15 126 (8.39%) Engineering Manager
16 119 (7.92%) Java Scala Software Engineer
17 118 (7.86%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (27.36%) Spring
2 270 (17.98%) Kafka
3 256 (17.04%) React
4 227 (15.11%) AngularJS
5 199 (13.25%) Spring Boot
6 186 (12.38%) J2EE
7 170 (11.32%) CSS
7 170 (11.32%) HTML
8 140 (9.32%) Hibernate
9 127 (8.46%) GraphQL
10 123 (8.19%) REST
11 111 (7.39%) JMS
12 98 (6.52%) Spring Integration
13 91 (6.06%) JSON
14 81 (5.39%) Node.js
15 76 (5.06%) jQuery
16 74 (4.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 68 (4.53%) Pandas
18 63 (4.19%) Web Services
19 60 (3.99%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 395 (26.30%) Algorithms
2 382 (25.43%) Cloud Native
3 87 (5.79%) Public Cloud
4 85 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 68 (4.53%) Market Risk
6 54 (3.60%) Reference Data
7 43 (2.86%) Legacy Code
8 40 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 40 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.93%) Private Cloud
11 24 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.40%) Clustering
12 21 (1.40%) Replication
13 19 (1.26%) 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
1 157 (10.45%) Unix
2 144 (9.59%) Linux
3 50 (3.33%) Windows
4 24 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.73%) VMS
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) CentOS
8 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,152 (76.70%) Agile
2 1,137 (75.70%) Software Engineering
3 1,003 (66.78%) SDLC
4 951 (63.32%) CI/CD
5 760 (50.60%) Operational Stability
6 615 (40.95%) Machine Learning
7 612 (40.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 486 (32.36%) Community of Practice
9 458 (30.49%) Risk Management
10 440 (29.29%) Visualisation
11 425 (28.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 327 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
13 293 (19.51%) Microservices
14 282 (18.77%) Continuous Delivery
15 276 (18.38%) Performance Tuning
16 249 (16.58%) Full Stack Development
17 233 (15.51%) Decision-Making
18 168 (11.19%) Computer Science
19 167 (11.12%) Test Automation
20 164 (10.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 997 (66.38%) Java
2 497 (33.09%) Python
3 282 (18.77%) Scala
4 186 (12.38%) JavaScript
5 184 (12.25%) PL/SQL
6 104 (6.92%) TypeScript
7 80 (5.33%) C#
8 73 (4.86%) T-SQL
9 43 (2.86%) Groovy
10 27 (1.80%) C++
11 16 (1.07%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.93%) 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
1 103 (6.86%) Degree
2 58 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (2.20%) Master's Degree
4 32 (2.13%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.07%) SC Cleared
7 12 (0.80%) CISA
7 12 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.27%) ISEB
8 4 (0.27%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.20%) HND
9 3 (0.20%) PhD
10 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.13%) MCSE
10 2 (0.13%) OCP
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.067%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.067%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.13%) PMO
2 25 (1.66%) QA
3 22 (1.46%) SLA
4 15 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.80%) ITGC
6 8 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.067%) CRD IV
System Software
1 102 (6.79%) HDFS
2 43 (2.86%) Docker
3 21 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 14 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 265 (17.64%) Kubernetes
2 137 (9.12%) Terraform
3 54 (3.60%) Grafana
4 26 (1.73%) ITRS Geneos
5 25 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.40%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.40%) Kibana
6 21 (1.40%) Zipkin
7 13 (0.87%) Ansible
8 7 (0.47%) Graphite
9 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.13%) Istio
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 2 (0.13%) Rancher
11 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.067%) SCCM
11 1 (0.067%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 396 (26.36%) Oracle
2 192 (12.78%) Databricks
3 107 (7.12%) Microsoft
4 87 (5.79%) Informatica
5 72 (4.79%) Cloudera
6 53 (3.53%) Splunk
7 45 (3.00%) Google
8 44 (2.93%) Dynatrace
9 28 (1.86%) SAP
10 27 (1.80%) VMware
11 23 (1.53%) Sybase
12 21 (1.40%) Atlassian
13 20 (1.33%) IBM
14 18 (1.20%) Alteryx
14 18 (1.20%) Cognos
15 13 (0.87%) Sage
16 11 (0.73%) OpenLink
17 9 (0.60%) TOWER Software
18 8 (0.53%) NVIDIA
19 7 (0.47%) ServiceNow