SQL Server Jobs in Edinburgh

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 75 73
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 -11
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 23 31 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.59% 1.98% 3.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.43% 13.25% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 19 31 38
10th Percentile £31,600 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,875 £73,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £80,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -0.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

SQL Server 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 140 234 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 15.77% 14.97% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 79 137 212
10th Percentile £30,850 £37,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £47,482 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,743 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.12% -6.55% +13.04%
75th Percentile £84,369 £73,000 £78,108
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £96,750
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -10.26% +6.36%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
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 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Headless CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) SaaS
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Fiddler
2 2 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Postman
2 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
2 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Lead
2 6 (26.09%) Team Leader
3 5 (21.74%) DBA
3 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 5 (21.74%) SQL DBA
3 5 (21.74%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (13.04%) Database Team Leader
4 3 (13.04%) Development Team Leader
4 3 (13.04%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Database Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Graduate
5 2 (8.70%) Graduate Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Graduate Database Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Graduate Support Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Support Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) .NET
1 7 (30.43%) RESTful
2 5 (21.74%) .NET Core
2 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
2 5 (21.74%) CSS
2 5 (21.74%) HTML
2 5 (21.74%) React
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Framework
3 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.04%) CSS3
4 3 (13.04%) Entity Framework
4 3 (13.04%) HTML5
4 3 (13.04%) Web Services
5 2 (8.70%) ADO.NET
5 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (8.70%) Bootstrap
5 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (8.70%) REST
5 2 (8.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) e-Learning
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 9 (39.13%) Microservices
2 9 (39.13%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
4 6 (26.09%) Coaching
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
6 4 (17.39%) MVC
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) TDD
6 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Database Migration
7 3 (13.04%) Line Management
7 3 (13.04%) PRINCE2
7 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.04%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) T-SQL
3 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) Elixir
5 2 (8.70%) F#
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
5 2 (8.70%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) Java
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Puppet
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks