Relational Database Job Trends in Edinburgh

Relational Database
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 71 87
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 +17
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 9 26 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.84% 2.35% 2.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.79% 10.66% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 22
10th Percentile - £25,000 -
25th Percentile - £30,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £47,557 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.43% -26.84% +29.35%
75th Percentile £26,000 £61,600 £84,056
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £91,241
Scotland median annual salary £26,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -48.00% -23.08% +35.42%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 188 244 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.62% 22.04% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 60 103 224
10th Percentile £25,750 £35,250 £43,207
25th Percentile £28,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,114 £78,286
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,829 £94,124
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £52,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.31% -4.77% -

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Edinburgh

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Database Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Graduate
1 7 (77.78%) Graduate Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Graduate Database Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Graduate Support Consultant
1 7 (77.78%) Support Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) e-Learning
1 7 (77.78%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Entry
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Observability
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft