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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 74 71
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 35 39 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.81% 2.56% 3.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.13% 13.09% 18.63%
Number of salaries quoted 30 38 55
10th Percentile £44,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,934 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,188 £72,188 £80,107
90th Percentile £73,250 £80,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +4.40%

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 183 298 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.91% 19.59% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 114 182 247
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,188 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76,840 £73,563 £80,625
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +14.29%

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 4 May 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 (2.86%) CMS
1 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.86%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) AWS
3 11 (31.43%) SaaS
4 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.86%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) GitHub
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.43%) Power BI
3 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.57%) MySQL
4 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.86%) OLAP
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (8.57%) Fiddler
2 3 (8.57%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) Postman
2 3 (8.57%) TeamCity
2 3 (8.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Developer
1 9 (25.71%) Lead
2 8 (22.86%) Team Leader
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 5 (14.29%) DBA
4 5 (14.29%) Software Team Leader
4 5 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 5 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
5 4 (11.43%) Database Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Database Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Database Team Leader
6 3 (8.57%) Development Team Leader
7 2 (5.71%) Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Embedded Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Graduate Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Graduate Database Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Graduate Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) .NET
2 11 (31.43%) RESTful
3 9 (25.71%) CSS
3 9 (25.71%) HTML
4 7 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 6 (17.14%) .NET Framework
6 5 (14.29%) ASP.NET
6 5 (14.29%) React
6 5 (14.29%) Web Services
7 4 (11.43%) AngularJS
7 4 (11.43%) Entity Framework
8 3 (8.57%) ADO.NET
8 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (8.57%) CSS3
8 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (8.57%) HTML5
8 3 (8.57%) Kafka
8 3 (8.57%) REST
8 3 (8.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Agile
1 14 (40.00%) DevOps
2 13 (37.14%) Coaching
2 13 (37.14%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (34.29%) Microservices
3 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (28.57%) Line Management
4 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
6 7 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
7 6 (17.14%) TDD
7 6 (17.14%) Unit Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (14.29%) OO
8 5 (14.29%) OOP
8 5 (14.29%) SOLID
8 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (11.43%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 9 (25.71%) C#
4 7 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (17.14%) T-SQL
6 4 (11.43%) Python
7 2 (5.71%) Elixir
7 2 (5.71%) F#
7 2 (5.71%) Go
7 2 (5.71%) Ruby
7 2 (5.71%) Scala
8 1 (2.86%) C
8 1 (2.86%) Java
8 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) Puppet
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks